In this video we're going to take a look at Twitter again.
And it's going to be kind of a follow up.
So with Twitter I dropped off.
Once it got taken over, things kind of went, in my opinion, downhill.
A lot of tools that were great for Twitter got killed.
And it's much, much harder to do open source intelligence on Twitter in terms of using different tools
to help you with your with that process.
So in the previous video, I kind of went over a chart for kind of investigating Twitter.
But in this video we're going to kind of take a look at Twitter itself or X as it's called now, and
kind of go through it.
So of course you do want to use a sock puppet account for using this.
And either you have to register by phone or you could do email.
You could use Google.
I used a a sock puppet Google account and created a Twitter account.
Now our X account.
So for the most part, again, I don't use X or Twitter anymore.
Uh, a lot of the people I use to follow are gone now.
It's not a great place to be in terms of viewing messages and kind of what people are saying for the
most part.
It's definitely geared a lot towards conspiracy theory and, uh, illegal activities, misinformation,
disinformation and whatnot.
So creating an account for this again, is useful in that regard.
If you're looking for misinformation, you're looking for disinformation, you're looking for illegal
activities, hate speech, uh, hate groups and whatnot.
X is a good platform for that, unfortunately.
Fortunately, unfortunately to to view.
So creating an account, I'm not going to go over that.
That's pretty straightforward to get in there.
And when you're choosing the what topics that you're interested in, I would definitely pick topics
that you want that you want to do your searches geared towards.
That's going to make things easier for you.
So once you're in here, this is what it looks like now.
And we can explore things we could use grok if you're paying for it.
I'm I'm definitely not going to spend money on this.
We can see the blue check mark is our people that are the premium members here.
There's communities that we could take a look at.
So depending on what we're searching we can take a look at communities.
And of course we could take a look at the different users.
So if I'm doing an investigation on someone and there's a particular tweet I'm looking at, I'm going
to take a look at who posted it in this case, who originally posted this.
This is something that just came up on the feed.
I'm going to take a look at them.
I'm going to take a look at their their tags, their their usernames, their their name.
So I'll take that name.
If I was investigating this person, I would take that name.
I would put it into a people search, start getting information from them.
I would also take the username, it's Joshua Lake, take that and start seeing if that account was used
anywhere else.
And if it was, is it the same person?
I'm going to take a look at the other tag information.
Things like CEO of Discovery Crypto, whatever.
I'm going to take a look at that.
I'm going to take a look at if he has a website, which apparently he does.
I'm going to take a look at when that was registered, where it was registered, what type of information
I could glean from that.
I'm going to take a look at who's following, who's following, um, him, who he's following.
I'm going to see who liked.
I'm going to see who, who commented on it, who's he's commenting on, and so on.
And so forth.
Take the images to reverse image searches and whatnot.
pretty standard stuff.
So other things we can do are we can go into the search field and I can if you could type any search
you want.
So if I type in Q.
It's going to give you some basic stuff.
Q in the shadows, gone in Queen Empress booking, blah, blah, blah.
And we have different Q in on stuff.
Of course.
Now if we go up into the up in here, we can click on these little three dots here, click on more.
And we could do advanced searches.
So this is going to make your searches a lot easier.
For the most part we could take a look at keywords and put it in quotes.
Or we could we could combine it contains say we could type in uh quote Q-anon and Trump.
For example, we could do exact phrases.
We could do example contains either or.
Either cats or dogs, or both.
For example, we could we could make sure we could exclude words.
We could search by hashtags.
We could search by languages.
So if there's a particular language that you know that the tweets that you're searching for are going
to be under, say, Korean, you can click on that and you can search by that.
You can search by accounts, you can search by mentions of accounts.
And there's other filters that we could do minimum engagement, minimum likes, dates, date, range.
It's really handy if we know that there's a likely activity within a certain date range.
We could put those date ranges in.
So I have QAnon and Trump.
I'm just going to click on search and see what happens here.
And we have some some stuff in here.
Republicans against Trump QAnon.
Uh, hashtag pedo Trump, hashtag MAGA Trump QAnon.
So we could see that it pulled those those different tweets that contained both Trump and QAnon.
So again, really useful filters for if we know what we're looking for.
We can also do things like to at let's do on Musk.
And we could do say QAnon.
So tweets to Elon Musk that are about QAnon.
And we can see Elon Musk just separate Q and anon, and we can see all these different posts that are
related to both Musk and QAnon.
We could also do things like if I want to search particular sites like iPhone.
And then I could do Amazon.
For example, and this is going to pull up messages about iPhones on Amazon.
Or I could change this to say.
Um, cannabis.
And let's see if it comes up with anything.
Cannabis and Craigslist.
And nothing come up there.
But we could.
But you kind of get the idea.
We could do things, we could take a product and we could take a look at a site, um.
Android.
And we could do eBay, for example also.
And we can see different eBay, uh, service, uh, tweets.
And also that has uh, different things on there.
So again really useful different search criteria for for X used to be Twitter.
Even though we can't use a lot of tools that we used to use to verify.
And personally, I really hate going on the site unless I'm looking for something specific in regards
to, again, hate speech, misinformation, disinformation, things of that nature.
Uh, X is an excellent space for those types of things.
So if you're investigating any of those things or you're or you're trying to verify information, follow
hate groups, things of that nature, definitely.
I would make a sockpuppet account for X.
Not that everything on here that gets posted is horrible things, but there unfortunately is a quite
a big community around misinformation, disinformation and hate speech and such on here and also drug
activity and whatnot.
So again, if you're looking for that, go ahead and make a sock puppet account for X and make sure
you check those advanced filters on X.
Thank you for watching and I will see you in the next video.