Social Media OSINT
26 toolsSocial media investigation tools — account discovery, cross-platform profiling, content archiving, analytics platforms, and dark social monitoring.
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Sherlock
4.5/5Hunt usernames across 400+ social networks simultaneously with no API keys or accounts required.
freeAwesome OSINT
4.3/5A massive, investigator-friendly directory for finding the right OSINT tools before you waste time using the wrong ones.
freeCrucix
4.3/527 parallel intelligence feeds, push alerts to your phone, and LLM-powered briefings on demand — self-hosted, no cloud dependency.
freeDeadDrop
4.3/5Telegram intelligence platform searching 175M+ posts across 2M+ channels for OSINT and influence operation research
freemiumOSINT Industries
4.3/5Search engine for digital footprint — email, phone, username across 200+ sources
freemiumTinEye
4.3/5Find where an image originated, when it first appeared online, and every modified version that shares its visual fingerprint — without relying on metadata or keywords.
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Reddit OSINT: Investigating Users, Communities, and Deleted Content
Reddit OSINT combines native Reddit review, archive-based recovery, and behavioral analysis to investigate users, subreddits, and deleted discussions. Its real value is not just finding old posts, but building a structured timeline of visible activity, recovered content, moderation patterns, and identity clues without overstating what third-party archives can prove.
Social Media OSINT by Platform: A Practical Investigation Guide
Platform-by-platform guide to OSINT investigation on social media — techniques, tools, and search methods for Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, Telegram, and Reddit.
Best OSINT Accounts to Follow on X (Twitter) in 2026
The 25 X accounts that professional OSINT analysts actually follow — practitioners, investigative journalism orgs, threat intelligence researchers, and training resources.
More Social Media OSINT Tools
Instaloader
Archive a complete Instagram profile — posts, stories, reels, metadata, and follower lists — to local storage before the subject deletes it.
TCM Security OSINT Course
Practical OSINT training for investigators and security professionals
Tookie-OSINT
A lightweight open-source tool for turning sparse identifiers into cross-platform social account leads.
Brand24
Real-time social media monitoring and brand intelligence for OSINT investigators
ShadowDragon
Social media intelligence and OSINT automation for law enforcement and enterprise
Social Analyzer
Search a username across 1000+ social networks with confidence-scored results and structured JSON output — a material step above binary found/not-found enumeration.
Social Links
Enterprise OSINT platform with 500+ data sources and 1,700+ investigative methods for social media, dark web, and blockchain investigation
Ubikron
The OSINT browser extension that runs 200+ enrichments from any web page
Babel Street
Global multilingual intelligence platform for government, law enforcement, and enterprise
TGStat
Telegram channel analytics platform covering 50+ million channels with growth data and content search
Botometer
An academic bot-detection tool that helps analysts prioritize which Twitter/X accounts deserve closer manual review.
Maigret
Username OSINT tool that checks 2,500+ sites, extracts profile data from hits, and automatically pivots to linked identifiers found in discovered accounts.
Mitaka
A browser extension that turns highlighted indicators into instant OSINT and threat intelligence lookups without breaking analyst flow.
SEON
Fraud detection and digital identity verification using OSINT-based enrichment
Spokeo
Consolidate address history, phone, email, and associate data on US subjects in a single report before you start working individual sources.
Exolyt
TikTok analytics platform for account research, trend tracking, and content investigation
FaceCheck.ID
Reverse face search engine that finds where a face appears across social media and the public web
WhatsMyName
Takes a username and checks whether an account exists on 500+ platforms via HTTP pattern matching — no login, no scraping, no cost.
Epieos
Submits an email or phone number and returns linked social accounts, Google profile data, and carrier information without touching the target platforms directly.
Social Catfish
People search and reverse lookup platform focused on online identity verification and catfish detection