The distinction between traditional social media and messenger apps is probably not as defined as it once was, "Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, interests, and other forms of expression through virtual communities and networks." As a result on this page you will find some platforms that you may not think as Social Media. There are links to useful, tools, technqiues & tradecraft.
If you are looking for Telegram, I decided that it should have its own repository, as it was quite a large section.
| Telegram |
| Table of Contents |
| Discord |
| Kik |
| Mastadom |
| Snapchat |
| TikTok |
| Discord |
Blogs
- TOCP Investigating Discord @BOsintBlanc blog on how to investigate and research Discord (2021).
Resources
- Disboard, Discord Servers
- Discord Bee
- Discord Bot List
- Discord Centre
- Discord.com, Discord Bots
- Discord History Tracker
- Discord Hub
- Discord ID Creation Date Checker
- Discord ID Lookup
- Discord Servers
- Public Discord Bots & Servers
- Top.gg, Discord Bots & Servers
Blogs
Resources
- Codeofaninja This tool called "Get Facebook ID" provides an easy and fast way to find a Facebook page's or Facebook profile's numeric ID.
- CSE Facebook Image Search Use Keywords to search Facebook for images.
- CSE Facebook Search Obtain overall Results, Pages, Groups & Photos.
- Intelligence X Facebook Graph Searcher.
- FB2MKTP Go fast from target Facebook profile to target's Marketplace account.
- Intelltechniques Facebook Search Tool.
- Lookup-ID Facebook profile ID / Group ID / Page ID lookup resource.
- Osint Combine Social Geo Lens, this tool is designed to provide a map based interface for geo searching on social media platforms.
- Osint Combine This tool is a simple way to quickly search for multiple keywords from a list or open mutual friends for multiple profiles at the same time.
- Plessas Facebook Matrix This page contains Kirby Plessas Formulas for Searching Facebook.
- Socmint Tool Graph Search Tool.
- Sowdust Graph Tips Replacement Graph Search developed by Sowdust.
- Who Posted What Whopostedwhat.com is a non public Facebook keyword search for people who work in the public interest. It allows you to search keywords on specific dates.
Blogs
- Nixintel How to find timestamps Nixintel's blog on how to find timestamps for verification (2022).
- Nixintel Instagram Osint Nixintel's tutorial on how to install InstaScraper.
- TOCP How to search Instagram part 1 Technisette talks through how to search Instagram, for people, stories, keywords, hashtags, locations (2019).
- TOCP How to search Instagram part 2 Technisette continues her tutorial searching Instagram, for businessess, deleted content and tracking followers (2019).
Resources
- Codeofaninja Easy way for developers and designers to get Instagram account numeric ID by username.
- Download Gram Instagram downloader tool, it helps you to download Instagram photos and videos.
- Dumpoir Instagram story viewer anonymously - Online view profiles, reels, stories IG, followers, tagged posts.
- Imginn Download instagram photos, videos and stories highlights.
- Instaloader Download pictures (or videos) along with their captions.
- Inteltechniques Inteltechniques Instagram search tool.
- Instalooter API-less Instagram pictures and videos downloader.
- iZuum Instagram profile downloader.
- Osint Combinne Find images by date on Instagram at particular locations easier and more efficient.
- Picnob Enables you to browse Instagram profiles without the need of an account.
- Picuki Instgram Editor & Viewer.
- Toutatis Extract information from instagrams accounts such as e-mails & phone numbers.
- Who Posted What Finds Posts on Date Tagged With Location, for people who work in the public interest
| Kik |
There are other Kik OSINT resources that would be considered legitimate, however I have decided not to list them, due to the content they display.
- Kik Usernames Search thousands of Kik usernames by username or location.
Blogs
- Are You Linked in? Blog by Ginger T & Ritu Gill on how to search linked without being logged in (2021).
Resources
- Free Person Search Tool Find people easily on Linkedin.
- Custom Search Engine UK Linkedin Search (1).
- Custom Search Engine UK Linkedin Search (2).
- Inteltechniques LinkedIn Search Tool.
- Recruitment Geek LinkedIn Xray Search.
| Mastadon |
Blogs
- Secjuice Part one on Mastodon, focused on gathering OSINT from the platform's users, instances and network (2022).
| Snapchat |
Blogs
Resources
- Ghostcodes GhostCodes is the largest online database of Snapchat Users.
- Snapmap Snap Map allows you to see where your Snapchat contacts are, share your current location and view Snaps from nearby-Snapchat users or users.
- Snapchat Discover Snapchat Discover is a new way to explore Stories from different editorial teams.
- Snapchat Multi Viewer This tool is designed to create efficiencies in viewing multiple areas on snapchat using the provided embed feature by Snapchat.
- Snapchat Web Snapchat for Web lets users chat and video call with friends, with all conversations syncing between devices.
Videos
- TOCP TOCP 10 Minute Tip, How to download Snapchat videos.
| TikTok |
Blogs
- Nixintel How to find timestamps Nixintel blog on how to find timestamps for verification (2022).
- Sofia Santos The Hidden Potential of Public Twitter Lists (2023).
Resources
The resources listed below all do very similar things but you can gleam different kinds of information about a Twtiier account, so it always worth checking them all out. Some sites may need you to sign in to your own account to work.Please bear in mind that recent changes to Twitter, especially involving their API (March 2023). may have an adverse affect on some resources until the owners have had chance to adapt. It is more likley now that you may have to log into your own / sock Twitter account to be able to use some of the below resources.
- Allegedly Checks a Twitter accounts activity against their posted timezone.
- Analyze Words AnalyzeWords helps you to understand the personality of a Twitter user by looking at how you use words.
- Aware-Online Advanced search queries tool, allow you to analyze and monitor an account on Twitter.
- Birdhunt BirdHunt uses Twitters GeoCoded tweet search to find tweets by location.
- Botometre Botometer checks the activity of a Twitter account and gives it a score. Higher scores mean more bot-like activity.
- Codeofaninja Easy way for you to get a Twitter profile's numeric ID.
- Foller Twitter analytics shows followers, hashtags, topics, mentions, and other statistics for any public Twitter profile. *Currently Not Working*
- Followerwonk Twitter analytics tool used to find, analyze, and optimize for social growth and helps to explore and grow user's social graph.
- Geo Social Footprint A geosocial footprint is the combined bits of location information that a user divulges through social media, which ultimately forms the users location "footprint". *Currently Not Working*
- Hash At It Hashtag search engine. *Currently Not Returning Twiiter Hashtags*
- Inteltechniques Twitter aggregator search tool.
- Intelx Analyse Twitter profiles and location search.
- One Million Tweet Map A geographical clustering engine for online maps to display and analyse big geolocalized data.
- Osint Conbine This tool is designed to provide a map based interface for geo searching on social media platform.
- Real Top Tweeps Rankings of active Twitter accounts per language.
- Social Bearing Free Twitter analytics & search for tweets, timelines & twitter maps.*Currently Not Working*
- Spoonbill Spoonbill lets you see profile changes from the people you follow on Twitter or other social networks.
- Tinfoleak Search for Twitter users leaks.
- Tweet Beaver Analyse Twiiter accounts. *Currently Not Working*
- Tweep Diff Compare Twitter friends and followers.
- Tweet Map Tweetmap allows you to search for geographic and temporal distribution of words used in Twitter messages worldwide.
- Tweet Tunnel Old Tweets - view someone's earlier tweets.
- Twint An advanced Twitter scraping & OSINT tool written in Python that doesn't use Twitter's API.
- Twitter's Advanced Search Twitter advanced search allows you to tailor search results to specific date ranges, people, phrases etc.
- Twopcharts Twopcharts offers stats and data about how people have used their Twitter accounts. *Currently Not Working*
Search Queries
- twitter.com/USERNAME
- twitter.com/USERNAME/lists
- twitter.com/USERNAME/lists/memberships
- twitter.com/i/lists/search?q=KEYWORD
- twitter.com/search?q=KEYWORD
- Search bar:- to:username from:username
- Search bar:- to:profilename from:profiename
- Search bar:- geocode:53.8029??,-1.5515??,1km
- Search bar:- geocode:53.8029??,-1.5515??,1km since:20??-11-04 until:20??-11-06 (year-month-day)
- search bar:- Search for Tweet by date since:20??-12-15 until:20??-12-16 "topic"
Tools