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Twitter social network has gained more popularity due to the increase in social activities of registered users. Twitter performs dual functions of online social network (OSN), acting as a microblogging OSN, and at the same time as a news update platform. Recently, the growth in Twitter social interactions has attracted the attention of cybercriminals. Spammers have used Twitter to spread malicious messages, post phishing links, flood the network with fake accounts, and engage in other malicious activities. The process of detecting the network of spammers who engage in these activities is an important step toward identifying individual spam account. Researchers have proposed a number of approaches to identify a group of spammers. However, each of these approaches addressed a specific category of spammer. This paper proposes a different approach to detect spammers on Twitter based on the similarities that …