In this video, we're going to take a look at the online tool Osumi.
Net and this is a tool from the university or Indiana University.
It can be found at OS.
I edu forward slash forward slash m e e.
Now this is a really interesting tool in that you can search for keywords and hashtags across multiple
platforms.
So currently it's blue Sky archive, Mastodon and TikTok.
And again we can look for keywords.
We can look for hashtags, and we can put a start and end date, which makes our document really useful
when we're doing our investigations, in that we could actually pull out certain keywords off multiple
platforms, make it easier to search, and we could isolate down to a certain date, especially if it's
something that's, um, time sensitive.
Say we're Were looking for a extremist group that has recently been posting.
We're looking for certain events within a certain time.
We're collecting evidence about, uh, things that were posted during a certain time.
This comes in really handy now.
Blue sky.
You could just click blue Sky and start searching your keyword after you put your dates in.
Now Mastodon is a little bit different.
So Mastodon operates in kind of a silo type, uh, environment.
So you are going to need to add a mastodon instance, which is pretty easy.
Just click on here, do the drop down, and you can start selecting which instance you want to use.
So Mastodon Japan.
Uh Peru Mastodon social.
So you're going to need to know which instance that your particular search criteria is going to be in.
Or you could simply choose one of these enter.
You need to enter the access token.
And then you can start searching each of them.
Tick tock.
You are going to need a API key.
So to get an API key for TikTok, you want to go to developers TikTok and then go through the process
of getting a API key.
Now typically these are free.
And uh, depending on what you're doing, you're going to have to tell them why you want API key.
So you need to come up with something that that is going to get you approved.
If you're putting down, um, while I'm doing this so I can hack people, that's not going to get you
approved.
So be smart about what you tell them your project's going to be and why you're going to be using it.
Now let's go back to blue Sky.
Let's say we're doing an investigation on blue Sky again.
We have a start and end date I'm going to put down click the calendar here.
We can start going through here.
Makes it really easy to select the start and end date.
And we could type in uh list type in something simple okay.
got Trump submit query.
Let that run through.
And we can see the progress bar in the background here.
So not too bad.
It actually runs fairly quick.
Okay.
That should be about done now.
And this gives us a visualize map of of these different posts.
So this is great for visualization.
So if I kind of scroll down in here I can see this cluster here.
And I can click on any of these here.
Or I can click on play and it'll show me kind of how things progressed and and spidered out here.
I'm going to click pause.
You can click on any of these things.
And if I click on any of these, it will give me the account name.
It'll say who reposted it and you can view the post in blue sky.
So again, if if I'm taking a look at this I could click on here.
I'll go okay well this is where it started.
Let me click on this.
Let me take a look at at the what they have for image, what they have for wallpaper.
How many people are following who's who's following them?
How many posts did they make?
What type of links do they have?
What type of posts do they do?
What?
What media is there?
What what their, uh, their name is on here.
So on and so forth.
And again, who reposted it, who's following them, etcetera, etcetera.
So again really cool tool.
And you can you can export this out.
You can download it as a PNG, a CSV file, a GML file.
So again really great for looking at how the aggregation is and for keywords and visualization.
So.