To give a short overview on what Soumitra and I will be talking at STRATA (watch us in the LIVESTREAM), we posted a short video. You might wonder, where did those numbers come from? Here, you will find an overview:

Pew: Half of Americans get news digitally, topping newspapers, radio
by Andrew Beaujon
http://j.mp/Vt9DG8

55% Of Journalists Worldwide Use Twitter, Facebook To Source News Stories [STUDY]
By Shea Bennett
http://j.mp/VExCER

Infographics – every 60 s
by GO-Globe
http://j.mp/WU38NA

SPAM Clock
http://j.mp/YkbA4t

Study Spammers Conversion – 1 Conversion in whole of LA
http://j.mp/1537ALV

2010 – Twitter claims that they managed the SPAM issue
by Twitter
http://j.mp/Xmregx

2010 – Great Research article on Facebook SPAM
by Hongyu Gao et.al.
http://j.mp/W1pXjL

Crime in the Internet. Internetsafety 101
http://j.mp/XilebE

2010 – Uncovering Social Spammers: Social Honeypots + Machine Learning
by Kyumin Lee et.al.
http://j.mp/WLsc7N

2011 – The Socialbot Network – When Bots Socialize for Fame and Money
by Yazan Boshmaf et. al.
http://j.mp/UD5rED

How the ‘Good Life’ is Threatened in Cyberspacemore
by Huma Shah
http://j.mp/Zdj9gf

2005 – Social Phishing
by Tom Jagatic
http://j.mp/Ywys2I

Consumers pay more attention to Reviews then to Social Networks
by eccomplished
http://j.mp/XKAMRE

Spotting fake reviewer groups in consumer reviews
by Arjun Mukherjee et.al.
http://j.mp/VEKYRA

2013 – CATS: Characterizing Automation of Twitter Spammers
by Amit A. Amleshwaram et.al.
http://j.mp/Y65Hdk

2012 – Understanding and Combating Link Farming in the Twitter Social Network
by Saptarshi Ghosh et. al.
http://j.mp/W7VOtU