A Multistage Credibility Analysis Model for Microblogs

Currently, microblogs such as the well-known social network Twitter are one of the most important sources of information in an era of information overload, restiveness and uncertainty. Consequently, developing models to verify information from Twitter has become both a challenging and necessary task. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-stage credibility analysis framework to identify implausible content in Twitter in order to prevent the proliferation of fake or malicious information. We used Naive Bayes classifier and it is enhanced by considering the relative importance of the used features to improve the classification accuracy. We examine the classifier with 1000 unique tweets along with 700 account. The result quite motivating with accuracy 90.3%, 86.24% Precision and 98.8% recall.