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 |
| Miscellaneous |
| SM Management |
| Bluesky |
| Discord |
| Kik |
| Mastadon |
| Snapchat |
| TikTok |
| Twitter X |
| Miscellaneous |
- Comment Picker
- Open Measures
- Social Media List
- Social Media Map
- The Hive Index
Multi purpose tool for Facebook, Instagram, TikTok & Twitter.
Analyze hate and disinformation online.
A list of top 250 social media apps and networks worldwide.
Navigate the Ever-Changing World of Social with the Social Media Map
Curated lists of the top online social nedia communities to join.
| SM Management |
| BlueSky |
| Discord |
Blogs
- Authentic8 Collecting OSINT on Discord. (2024)
- 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
- Ashar Khalil Search private Facebook profiles for valuable information. (2023)
- CyberRaya Obtain group member infos via TypeScript. (2023)
- Henk van Hess Social search techniques using Facebook. (2023)
- Lifewire How to check if a email or telephone number is linked to a Facebook account (2023).
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.
- Have I Been Zuckered Check if your telephone number is present within the Facebook data breach.
- Intelligence X Facebook Graph Searcher.
- Facebook Hashtag search. Enter a sinlge word to search on Facebook Hashtags.
- 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.
- Ph4nToM00 Osint tools for information retrieval via Facebook.
- Socmint Tool Graph Search Tool.
- 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.
- Sowdust Graph Tips Replacement Graph Search developed by Sowdust.
- Plessas Facebook Matrix This page contains Kirby Plessas Formulas for Searching Facebook.
- 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
- Aware-Online View Instagram Profile without logging in. (2021)
- 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.
- GreatFon Instagram story viewer - Watch profiles, stories, followers, reels, tagged web posts anonymously.
- Imginn Download instagram photos, videos and stories highlights.
- Inflact Use Photo Downloader for Instagram to save Instagram photos and videos.
- Instaloader Download pictures (or videos) along with their captions.
- Instalooter API-less Instagram pictures and videos downloader.
- Instanavigation View Instagram anonymously.
- Inteltechniques Inteltechniques Instagram search tool.
- iZuum Instagram profile downloader.
- Modash Analyze Instagram influencers: follower count, engagement rate, fake followers, popular content.
- 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.
- Story Saver Download Instagram stories, highlights and videos.
- 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 Toolset Miscellaneous tools for Kik, Both useful and useless.
- 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 locked in (2021).
- Henk van Ess Social search techniques using Linkedin (2023).
Resources
- Free Person Search Tool Find people easily on Linkedin.
- Custom Search Engine UK Linkedin Search (1).
- Custom Search Engine UK Linkedin Search (2).
- Custom Search Engine UK Linkedin Search (3).
- Inteltechniques LinkedIn Search Tool.
- Recruitment Geek LinkedIn Xray Search.
| Mastadon |
Blogs
- The Investigator Blog What you didn't know about Mastaodon Investigations (2023).
- Secjuice Part one in our series on Mastodon, focused on gathering OSINT from the platform's users, instances and network (2022).
Resources
- Imagstodon Enter nickname to search for profile images on 100+ Mastodon instances.
- Masto Masto is an OSINT tool written in python to gather intelligence on Mastodon users and instances.
- MastoVue Peek into the public Mastodon timeline or search for hashtags.
- Fedfinder Find Fediverse user by their Twitter account.
- Fediverse Fediverse people directory.
Resources
- Bellingcat Given a subreddit name and a keyword, this program returns all top (by default) posts that contain the specified keyword.
- Netlify Analyse a Reddit user.
- Reddit Comment Search Search through comments of a particular Reddit user.
| Snapchat |
Blogs
- Hatlessider Viewing Bitmoji changes.(2022)
- Lifewire The Quick Guide to Snapchat Emoji Meanings.
- TOCP How to use Snapmap and download videos.
- WebBreacher How to use Backmoji.(2022)
Resources
- Backmoji The Bitmoji avatar history enumerator.
- 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 Emoji Meanings The quick guide to Snapchat emoji meanings.
- 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.
- Snapintel SnapIntel is a python tool providing you information about Snapchat users.
Videos
- TOCP TOCP 10 Minute Tip, How to download Snapchat videos.
| TikTok |
Blogs
- Bellingcat Investigate TikTok Like A Pro! (2022).
- BTF_117 OSINT Investigations on TikTok Part 1 (2020).
- BTF_117 OSINT Investigations on TikTok Part 2 (2020).
- Sector035 A Week In OSINT TikTok entries.
- BTF_117 OSINT Investigations on TikTok Part 3 (2020).
- Sinwindle TikTok Targeted OSINT Investigations (2019).
Resources
- Bellingcat Obtain the timestamp of a TikTok video.
- Bellingcat Provides tools to analyze hashtags within posts scraped from TikTok.
- Custom Search Engine TikTok CSE search.
- Drawrowfly TikTok Scraper. Download video posts, collect user/trend/hashtag/music feed metadata.
- Analyse TikTok A web application made for people who want to calculate tiktok engagement rate and analyse tiktok profile, video, song, or hashtag.
- OSINT Combine This tool is designed to provide a quick method to search usernames and hashtags on TikTok via a browser.
- SnapTik TikTok video downloader without the watermark.
- Sinwindle Sinwindle's gitHub TikTok tools.
- Tiker Download any TikTok user's video anonymously, without registration and watermark.
- TikTok For You For You is a personalized feed of videos based on your interests and engagement.
- TikTokStalk You can find users, hashtags, videos, music, and more on Tiktok.
- TikTake Download TikTok videos and more without any watermark.
- TikTokD Download TikTok videos without watermark via username.
- TikTok Downloader Download TikTok videos without the watermark.
- Ttdown Download tiktok video to mp4 & mp3.
- UrleBird TikTok Viewer, a website where you can analyze, discover and explore TikTok
- Vidnice VidNice is a TikTok Web Viewer that you can easily browse users, followers, hashtags, popular contents, statistics and much more.
| Twitter Now Known as X |
Blogs
- Hatless1der Simple methods of getting around Twitter’s annoying login wall (2023).
- Henk van Ess Social search techniques using Twitter (2023).
- Nixintel How to find timestamps Nixintel blog on how to find timestamps for verification (2022).
- Sofia Santos The Hidden Potential of Public Twitter Lists.
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.
- Analyze Words AnalyzeWords helps you to understand the personality of a Twitter user by looking at how they 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.
- Claromes Find archived tweets on Wayback Machine in an easy way.
- 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.
- 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.
- Allegedly Checks a Twitter accounts activity against their posted timezone.
- MemoryLOL It can currently be used to look up 542 million historical screen names for 443 million Twitter accounts.
- Nitter Nitter is a free and open source alternative viewer for Twitter/X.
- 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.
- Twiiit Nitter instance.
- Twint An advanced Twitter scraping & OSINT tool written in Python that doesn't use Twitter's API.
- Twitter List search Enter a keyword for public Twitter lists.
- 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*
- Wayback Tweets Display multiple archived tweets on Wayback Machine and avoid opening each link manually.
Currently Not Working
Search Queries
Tools
- App Group Link
- Email2WhatsApp
- Groupda
- Groupify Hub
- Groupio
- WhatGroup Links
- Whts Group Links
- WhatsApp Group Links.
- Whats Group Links
Latest active WhatsApp group links.
It enables the discovery of WhatsApp numbers from email addresses.
Search WhatsApp groups.
Find a UK WhatsApp group link.
Find and search WhatsApp groups.
Best WhatsApp group links
Active WhatsApp group links.
Latest WhatsApp group links.
Latest Whatsapp group links