| Title | Deploying South African Social Honeypots on Twitter |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2018 |
| Authors | Cornelissen, Laurenz A., Barnett, Richard J, Kepa, Morakane A. M., Loebenberg-Novitzkas, Daniel, Jordaan, Jacques |
| Conference Name | Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists |
| Publisher | ACM |
| ISBN Number | 978-1-4503-6647-2 |
| Keywords | automated social agent detection, honeypots, Human Behavior, human factors, pubcrawl, Scalability, Social Agents, social media |
| Abstract | Inspired by the simple, yet effective, method of tweeting gibberish to attract automated social agents (bots), we attempt to create localised honeypots in the South African political context. We produce a series of defined techniques and combine them to generate interactions from users on Twitter. The paper offers two key contributions. Conceptually, an argument is made that honeypots should not be confused for bot detection methods, but are rather methods to capture low-quality users. Secondly, we successfully generate a list of 288 local low quality users active in the political context. |
| DOI | 10.1145/3278681.3278703 |
| Citation Key | cornelissen_deploying_2018 |
Deploying South African Social Honeypots on Twitter