1 00:00:00,050 --> 00:00:04,400 After learning how to gather information about Facebook and Instagram accounts. 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:11,570 In this lecture, I would like to show you how can you find information about any Twitter or ex account? 3 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:20,960 Now Twitter or Ex has over 550 million active users and people can tweet, share photos, videos or 4 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:21,980 add links. 5 00:00:22,340 --> 00:00:26,660 So the first thing we are going to do is to analyze the target profile. 6 00:00:26,660 --> 00:00:32,870 It's very important to read their bio and see if there is any links, and have a look when they have 7 00:00:32,870 --> 00:00:34,610 joined twitter.com. 8 00:00:34,970 --> 00:00:40,250 And this is something that we have already done with Facebook and Instagram, and something that you 9 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:46,070 are going to do with every single account you will encounter, because this information could be utilized 10 00:00:46,070 --> 00:00:48,350 to find more information about a person. 11 00:00:48,350 --> 00:00:55,670 For example, you can see here my Twitter account and you can see my display name, my username and 12 00:00:55,670 --> 00:00:57,260 that I teach Osint. 13 00:00:57,260 --> 00:01:03,750 So what people can do is to go to Google and search for my username or for my display name and add the 14 00:01:03,750 --> 00:01:05,220 search term Osint. 15 00:01:05,220 --> 00:01:11,070 And this will narrow down the search and will display more information about me regarding Osint. 16 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:13,530 Now let's come back to our notes. 17 00:01:13,530 --> 00:01:19,260 We have previously gathered two profile URLs of Rishi Kabra Twitter account. 18 00:01:19,350 --> 00:01:23,790 So here is the first username and this is the second username. 19 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:32,010 So before I investigate and gather information about these Twitter accounts, I'm going to go to Twitter 20 00:01:32,010 --> 00:01:36,720 and then go to the search menu and search for Rishi Kabra. 21 00:01:37,410 --> 00:01:41,130 And here you will see the top information, the top tweets. 22 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:44,550 And we have also the latest tweet. 23 00:01:44,610 --> 00:01:48,390 And we also have people media and lists. 24 00:01:48,540 --> 00:01:54,270 Now in my case I'm going to search for people because I would like to locate his account and we already 25 00:01:54,270 --> 00:01:55,200 have his account. 26 00:01:55,200 --> 00:02:00,900 But I just want to know that if you are searching for a person and you didn't find their account on 27 00:02:00,900 --> 00:02:05,640 search engines, then you can go to ECS and search for them within the platform. 28 00:02:05,970 --> 00:02:07,230 So here is his account. 29 00:02:07,230 --> 00:02:12,360 We can see his name Rishi Kabra, and we can see that he's a product manager at Contact Out. 30 00:02:12,810 --> 00:02:15,840 So we can see that this is his profile picture. 31 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:17,640 This is the banner picture. 32 00:02:17,640 --> 00:02:20,250 And we can see that he's from Kolkata, India. 33 00:02:20,250 --> 00:02:22,470 And this is contact out website. 34 00:02:22,470 --> 00:02:25,350 And he joined in May 2010. 35 00:02:26,580 --> 00:02:34,620 Now if we come back to our notes and copy the second URL and put it in here and then hit enter, we 36 00:02:34,620 --> 00:02:36,990 will see that this account does not exist. 37 00:02:36,990 --> 00:02:40,080 So we don't know whether this is an account that he deleted. 38 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:43,800 Or maybe he changed his username to this one. 39 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,920 But we will find this out in the next lecture. 40 00:02:47,550 --> 00:02:53,190 Next I would like to show you how you can extract the user ID from a Twitter or an account. 41 00:02:53,220 --> 00:02:58,950 Now we have already done this with Facebook and Instagram and we will do this again with Twitter. 42 00:02:59,490 --> 00:03:05,860 So every Twitter account has a unique ID that's get generated once they create an account. 43 00:03:05,860 --> 00:03:12,490 And to view this ID manually, all you have to do is to hold the Ctrl and shift, and then I keys to 44 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:16,330 run inspect elements and then search for profile banners. 45 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:17,980 So let's do this. 46 00:03:17,980 --> 00:03:21,340 Right now I'm going to hold the Ctrl shift and I keys. 47 00:03:21,370 --> 00:03:24,070 And this will open the inspect element. 48 00:03:24,070 --> 00:03:29,050 And then I'm going to click on this arrow and then select the username. 49 00:03:29,410 --> 00:03:38,110 And then I'm going to search within this HTML code and say slash profile banners. 50 00:03:38,110 --> 00:03:39,580 And then hit enter. 51 00:03:39,910 --> 00:03:46,180 And here we can see that there is an ID and this is the ID of Rishi Khabra. 52 00:03:46,180 --> 00:03:51,160 So I'm going to copy it and put it in my notes like this. 53 00:03:52,060 --> 00:03:54,520 Now let's come back to Rishi Khabra account. 54 00:03:54,580 --> 00:04:01,510 And one thing that I need to mention, which is if he doesn't have a banner picture, then you will 55 00:04:01,510 --> 00:04:04,510 not be able to find the ID using this method. 56 00:04:04,510 --> 00:04:09,700 So instead you are going to search for identifier and hit enter. 57 00:04:09,700 --> 00:04:15,700 So it's right here you can see the word identifier along with the user ID. 58 00:04:16,660 --> 00:04:22,060 So these are two manual methods to find the user ID of a Twitter account. 59 00:04:23,140 --> 00:04:29,260 So let's say that Rishi Kamra has changed his username his display name removed his profile picture 60 00:04:29,260 --> 00:04:30,280 etc.. 61 00:04:30,280 --> 00:04:32,980 So how we are going to track his account again? 62 00:04:32,980 --> 00:04:39,730 So we already have his user ID and all we need is this URL that I'm going to put it in the resources 63 00:04:39,730 --> 00:04:40,870 of this lecture. 64 00:04:40,900 --> 00:04:49,390 So we need to copy it and put it in a new tab and replace the word ID with his ID, which is this one. 65 00:04:49,900 --> 00:04:52,930 So I'm going to replace it and then hit enter. 66 00:04:52,990 --> 00:04:55,870 And this will open his profile again. 67 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:58,810 And this is another ID that you can use. 68 00:04:58,810 --> 00:05:05,060 You can put it in here, copy the ID, replace the word ID and hit enter. 69 00:05:05,060 --> 00:05:09,110 And this will also redirect us to his Twitter account. 70 00:05:09,650 --> 00:05:15,470 Now if you would like to find the user ID automatically, then you just need to go to this website that 71 00:05:15,470 --> 00:05:17,780 I'm going to put its link in the description. 72 00:05:17,780 --> 00:05:21,110 And then you need to add the username of the person. 73 00:05:21,110 --> 00:05:23,120 And then you want to solve the captcha. 74 00:05:23,420 --> 00:05:26,510 And sometimes you'll get this message. 75 00:05:26,510 --> 00:05:31,370 And if you have got this message, then you want to log in with your Twitter account and authenticate 76 00:05:31,370 --> 00:05:38,720 your Twitter account with the service in order for it to retrieve the user ID of a Twitter account. 77 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:44,720 So I'm going to add the username again and then solve the captcha and then find the Twitter ID. 78 00:05:44,930 --> 00:05:47,870 And as you can see this is his Twitter ID. 79 00:05:48,140 --> 00:05:57,260 I can copy it and put it in here again and solve the captcha to find the username of this account. 80 00:05:57,260 --> 00:05:58,820 As you can see here.