1. Poll: allow to add image / video
2. Lists: make them more searchable
Some kind of rating for activity/engagement user
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I teach, talk & write passionately about web research & #ai. Doing that all day, worldwide | #osint | digitaldigging.org #misinformation
Science & TechnologyHave Mac, will travel #osintlinkedin.com/in/searchbistroBorn April 22Joined June 2008
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We invite all Russian citizens to vote in our referendum to become part of the Netherlands. #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #UkraineRussiaWar #Ukraine๏ธ๏ธ #UkraineInvasion (share!) Via
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So #macronleaks used Russian Excel: it left some app-internal strings in Russian into the files, (2.2)
I can now reveal that we tracked down Ghislane Maxwell on 23-Nov-19 at 17:39:43pm to be in Doylestown, Pennsylvania (49 days ago) - but we lost track a day later. #epstein - 463 miles away from were she was arrested
True. But we in Europe have less killings than you have WITH guns
Reverse image search using Google Lens is often superior to Google Reverse Image Search. Officially, Google Lens is only available in iOS and Android apps, not on the desktop. How do you get it running on your PC or Mac? Next tweets! (1/....)
Facebook Graph Search: Boon for Reporters but at What Cost To Privacy? http://t.co/zffDW5wx by
Wow, the #MacronLeaks contain a lot of RUSSIAN tags.. tnx
I highlighted the Russian words here: (via )
Just wrapped up an exciting new tool! Well, basically the code interpreter of #ChatGPT did it for me. ๐ Let's welcome 'Google Reverse Image Search Fix'! (1/5)
Reverse image search tip: Google Lens now supports "find image source". How does it work on a desktop?
1. Type in lens.google.com/search?p in your browser
2. Upload picture.
#osint #google #reverseimagesearch
The next few tweets will help you to filter Instagram postings. In every tweet I'll mention a specific problem I have with filtering Instagram and will mention then a possible solution. Here we go. (1/...)
The next 8 tweets will show you that it is NOT wise to publish photo's of your "work from home" setup. #coronavirus #COVID19 #wfhlife (1/9)
#macronleaks claims drugsdeal in bitcoins. Proof is nonsense: block #2811358 doesnโt exist / latest block is #465304
I wonder how all this super smart hacking is done.
When you research a person, how many times do you type in the name into Google? If it is just once, you need this handy cheatsheet I made. โDecuple Search in Googleโ.
Opening something that I hope is not what I think it is (1/3)
No search in Google is objective. Personality (what you search), location (were you are), technique (browser, device), topicality (the news in your area) and popularity (what most people want) will decide what results you will see. How do you get the most neutral Google? 7 tips!
The day Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right, September 3th 1967.
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ฟ - Can you search Google for information that was indexed for the last 10 seconds, the last 5 minutes, the last 30 minutes? Yes, you can. Normally, you can't go back longer than an hour. Let's change that. (1/5)
Wow, the #Ukrainian government just doxxed 620 Russians who work for the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB). Here's what they revealed:
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Here is the proof of that: Ghislaine Maxwell pinged on that day a local celltower that we managed to intercept: (2/2) #epstein #maxwell #GhislaineMaxwell
More on Russian tags in #macronleaks ยซะะฑะปะฐััั_ะฟะตัะฐัะธยป seems to be reserved name in Russian version of Excel (1/2)
Exciting news about Facebook! They removed some annoying restrictions in search. Which problems are solved? Next tweets (1/...)
There is something cooking . Out next week and for free! #osint
Dutch scientist made search engine for Twitter! twinl.surfsara.nl/# by who demo at #webarchiveringNL
Deep inside trenches of an #infowar, a troop of hungry fact checkers did the impossible. Follow my 24 hrs journey. medium.com/@henkvaness/ho
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ICYM : The Netherlands starts referendum about annexation of Russia - by the Netherlands :)
Within the following thread, you will find over forty accounts of people who do visual investigations, geolocations, or visual verification for news and media. As this field expands, non-US countries seem to be falling a bit behind. Thanks all for helping making this list!
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Happy news for all. Work of and me leads to brand new search engine learnit.today/newfb (shortcut). This search engine respects Facebook rules: no scraping, no bandwidth misuse etc. It uses exactly the same stuff FB is already offering, but more efficient. Enjoy!
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#JeffreyEpstein #ghislainemaxwell #epstein
Step 1: ) I tracked her pet project theterramarproject.org Admin@ and hello@ were opened always with the same IP number, that from a mobile connection. This allowed me to come with the hypothesis: it's the same person. (6...)
It was inevitable. Spammers use #ChatGPT to create fake websites using natural language processing. It allows malicious actors to quickly generate bogus sites that generate revenue from ads or other malicious content. Next few tweets: how is it done? (1/4)
How big is that crowd? There is a tool for that. #verification MapChecking - The Crowd Size Estimator mapchecking.com/#52.1921524,5.
The next few postings are addressed at nerds only and is my attempt to find out together what happened with Facebook Graph and how to solve it. All tools are down which is a nightmare for #osint community and reporters. Please share this thread so other people can comment on it.
#osint Ever wondered how you can identify a hill or mountains? There is an app for that
peakfinder.org or peakvisor.com
My collection of hacked infoscreens at German train stations, still counting . 45000 attacks in 74 countries so far. #wannacry #ransomsware
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I also used some additional techniques to track #ghislainemaxwell which I can't reveal here. During the tracking no animals were harmed (13/13)
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In the next tweets, I'll reveal how the tracking of #JeffreyEpstein's #ghislainemaxwell #epstein was done. It was a combination of patience, luck and persistency. Here we go! (5/...)
A convict taunted Dutch police. What happened next may surprise and/or amuse you. It's also a "how to" for Instagram research. (And it explains all those strange tweets from the last 48 hrs full of typo's)
What may appear to be an image of Tacoma, US, it is, in fact, a simulated one. Welcome to the brand new world of deepfake satellite images. washington.edu/news/2021/04/2
I am tremendous proud of all the #OSINT people who helped this morning in finding a fugitive criminal person. The exact location is google.com/maps/contrib/1 and the police has been notified. Thanks all! Unsung heroes are and ! (10/10)
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#JeffreyEpstein #ghislainemaxwell #epstein And this was the possible spot were she ate a donut that day in Doylestown google.com/maps/place/Dun On 5-Mar-20 at 18:23:15pm she was probably in San Antonio, Texas, United States (86% likelihood) (3/3)
From today on, Twitter analysis tool app.truthnest.com is free. You can get a first indication of somebody is followed by bots, if the timezone is right and more.
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๐ธ๐ฟ The amazing website pimeyes.com is a great addition to reversed search image tools. I uploaded my unpublished pass photo and it was recognised.
I have news for you! The next tweets will explain you in detail how you still can do #geolocation #search in #Instagram without breaking any rules. HT @OscarMager It's also a good example of how Facebook and Instagram are slowly merging. So here it comes!
So here it is. The very, very first beta version of "Who posted What?" in Facebook. whopostedwhat.com For the first time ever, it allows you to search for specific dates & date ranges in FB. Help is needed for icons/ styling/ GUI / layout, please reply (and RT)
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And no, I'm not open for bookdeals about catching #ghislanemaxwell - I just did some random observations, didn't catch her. (14/14)
Researching stuff in London for a NGO. I want to know what is on the little name plate. Google fails. Yandex shines. This is going on for months now.
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The M2 Max, 1 Tb, 32 Gb Ram.
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I need rebranding of my MySpace account, and a refreshed About page (new link to my IRC channel, remove link to Altavista and Gopher) . I can fax you details and pay you in domestic money order. Would $6 be ok + an this missing chess piece?
Ch.. ch.. changes in the internet graveyard archive.org are now visible with this tool web.archive.org/web/diff/20190 Thatโs ... big! #osint This will greatly help you to research the past.
Why is Google Bard introduced in 180 countries but not in Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain or any other EU country? In the next few tweets I will try to give a possible explanation.
How do you find (stupid) spies? Try to find tweets from buildings that are 100% closed to the public, as I did:
Here are 43 stories from 2021 based on open source investigations (just 1 from and 42 from others). What #osint tools were used? What is revealed? Where can the story be found? TY, TY
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d
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#JeffreyEpstein #ghislainemaxwell #epstein Because they had such a small radius, the reliability of the observations was better than normal. So that's why I tweeted that I think she hid, amongst other places, in Doylestown, Pennsylvania and San Antonio, Texas (10/10)
My #linkedin insider tip! How do you find out what somebody likes, or what he/she commented on?
1. Go to the profile
2. Go to the URL
3. Add /detail/recent-activity/
That's it!
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Dear @mlipla3, I understand - but this is irony. Taking over ๐ท๐บ by ๐ณ๐ฑ is as ridiculous as Russia ๐ท๐บ taking over Ukraine ๐บ๐ฆ (3/..) twitter.com/Mlipka3/status
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#nyctour #osint Tip 1 out of 25
for Email/Phone Investigation. One of my delegates wrote a manual, feel free to download it here: learnit.today/lampyre
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I can see who invited who, the twitter account, the Instagram account, the photo URL, the username, follower count, time created. This is a scraping job, not a hack. But should not allow this... (3/3)
Just moments ago, the whole account of is gone, so now the bio info is deleted too (1/..)
We need the EXACT spot of where those photos were taken, maybe Sussex area. Care to join this little #osint hunt?
Excellent Facebook tip for finding breaking news,
- real-time !
- bypassing restriction to max number of posts.
Here is the formula:
facebook.com/search/latest/
Just replace what is after q= with your own keywords.
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#JeffreyEpstein #ghislainemaxwell #epstein
Step 2: ) Because the emails also were opened shortly after each other it supported once more the hypothesis that the same person was opening both e-mails at a certain time and place (7/...)
So just got a question how to find English speakers in Portugal. Facebook just will give you nonsense if you ask this question. In the next 8 (!) threads (nerd alert!!!) you will learn how to do this for any language.
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#JeffreyEpstein #ghislainemaxwell #epstein
Step 3: ) I compared this data with other mail traffic from another, known e-mail addresses of #ghislanemaxwell and one day, I had a match: the pet project email and her own email were opened with the same IP (8/...)
The following is my no longer private Twitter filter list, with some very rare ones. I promise, it will save you a lot of time. It's Presidents Day in Phoenix and in rest of US. But professors and lecturers at still work. Enjoy the (finally correct) list. #OSINT
Excellent tool for finding what the sun did on any date, any time on any place on earth. Great for #osint research of photos andrewmarsh.com/apps/releases/
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#JeffreyEpstein #ghislainemaxwell #epstein
Step 4
Because #ghislanemaxwell hid in local areas, she didn't connect to a big ISP but a "cell tower" IP of Vodafone and another company. These towers have specific IP routing. (9/...)
A no brainer for everyone who likes #osint! My new friend from osint.support has put all his tools in one user friendly Chrome extension. Highly recommended.
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Oh my, the video shows that we Dutch also want Crimea:)(4/4)
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Some more details, #ghislainemaxwell was, with this research technique, also spotted in Beverly Hills:
2-Oct-19 at 16:50:53pm
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She opened the mail with a Intel Mac with OS X 10_14_5 (11/11)
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I gave this Facebook tip this morning in a workshop after a question of a participant:
If you know a Facebook page, so, not a profile, find out which people mentioned the page in their posting. Just add at end of link :
/posts_to_page/
#OSINT
The Visual Investigations team analyzed dozens of battlefield radio transmissions between Russian forces during an initial invasion of the town of Makariv, outside Kyiv. They reveal an army struggling with logistical problems and communication failures. ( 9 minutes)
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Search in Instagram for photos of location (who) and time (when) ? Check whopostedwhat.com
1/10 Here are ten lesser known Google shortcuts. The first one: if you need a timer, type:
timer
#GoogleTips
Google search tip: search hundreds of newspaper archives via news.google.com/newspapers
Search YouTube on date, time and location
mattw.io/youtube-geofin
Fake news, who started it? New tool helps you to just find that. hoaxy.iuni.iu.edu/#query=trump%2
Hilarious and also not. Dutch reporter scrutinized a tweet of Dutch minister of Defense (secret online meeting European Union) and found part of the login details for meeting, left by accident. He guessed the rest. Photo: the moment the reporter says hello to all.
Itโs time to share what Facebook thinks about recent changes. There is no public statement. But I talked to 4 employees off the record. They all gave the same explanation: we donโt want another privacy disaster (1/3)
I am a bit shocked to see how old the Russian "prisoner of war" on the left is.. barely 20. #Ukraine #Ukraina #UkraineRussie #UkraineCrisis (2/2)
How rumours work:
Twitter: #BuckinghamPalace
Media: what?
Twitter: #buckinghampalace!
Media: #buckinghampalace !
Twitter: Media confirmed!!
I studied the last 2195 post of , looking for the accounts he retweets/mentions the most. Here they are:
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So killed not only a disturbing voice but also an asset. What was Trump worth to Twitter? One analyst estimates $2 Billion.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ (8/9) #TrumpBanned #TrumpDeleted
Easter #osint tip. How do you search for photos in Facebook in a certain period? Find iD number of a city first with graph.tips/beta .
Use that ID in this formula facebook.com/search/1082239
Change the dates to your own needs
(Show me photos from Paradise from this year)
Typing in an iPad code, entering a code for encryption and the third code for a VPN, this passenger did all the #cybersecurity he learned. What followed was an open screen with a confidential strategy of his company for 2023 #cybersecurity - visible for 5-6 passengers..;
The wonderful came up with this nice list for researching cybersecurity, which also has some great resources for #osint (There, I used three adjectives in one Tweet)
Today I was trying to find if company X said anything about company Y in ...audio. It can be exhausting to listen for hours to podcasts or radio interviews just to find that mention. Here is how I manage the process. (1/4)
This video shows you what happened with social media the last few years twitter.com/martinfehrense

