<p>Recently, Rumor Spreading over Online Social Media is found as one of the serious issue, which causes severe damage to society, organization and individuals. To control the rumor spread, rumor detection is found as one of the probable solution and gained huge interest in the research community. However, most of the past methods characterize the rumormonger behavior based on their own profiles and completely neglected the reputation features. A hybrid method for rumor identification by combining the user reputation feature with other features like user features, meta-content based features and linguistic features is proposed. The major novelty lies at the representation of users through their interaction with his/her followers in different communities. The own profile based features can be evaded easily but the reputation of follows cannot be evaded easily. Totally 44 features are used to characterize each tweet and trained through different classifiers. Four classifiers namely K-Nearest Neighbour (KNN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) are used to train the system and the performance is analyzed through two standard datasets namely Zubiaga and Kwon. The obtained results show that the proposed method can recognize rumor with higher F1-score.</p>