Measuring the impact of spammers on e-mail and Twitter networks |
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| Institution: | 1. Londrina State University, Rod. Celso Garcia Cid km 380, Londrina-PR, Brazil;2. Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas, Unesp - Univ Estadual Paulista (São Paulo State University), Rua Cristóvão Colombo 2265, Jd Nazareth, 15054-000, São José do Rio Preto - SP, Brazil;3. Departament of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering at São Carlos,University of São Paulo, 13566-590, São Carlos, SP, Brazil |
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| Abstract: | This paper investigates the research question if senders of large amounts of irrelevant or unsolicited information – commonly called “spammers” – distort the network structure of social networks. Two large social networks are analyzed, the first extracted from the Twitter discourse about a big telecommunication company, and the second obtained from three years of email communication of 200 managers working for a large multinational company. This work compares network robustness and the stability of centrality and interaction metrics, as well as the use of language, after removing spammers and the most and least connected nodes. The results show that spammers do not significantly alter the structure of the information-carrying network, for most of the social indicators. The authors additionally investigate the correlation between e-mail subject line and content by tracking language sentiment, emotionality, and complexity, addressing the cases where collecting email bodies is not permitted for privacy reasons. The findings extend the research about robustness and stability of social networks metrics, after the application of graph simplification strategies. The results have practical implication for network analysts and for those company managers who rely on network analytics (applied to company emails and social media data) to support their decision-making processes. |
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| Keywords: | Data preprocessing Robustness Social network Spammers Stability Email Twitter |
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