In this video, we're going to take a look at a Twitter mind map, and you could download this in the
resource section.
Now technically it's not Twitter anymore, it's X now.
However, I've been using this for a long time, um, before it got taken over and had the name change,
so I'm just used to that now.
Mind maps are great.
I love using mind maps not only to kind of illustrate different points, but also I tend to use mind
maps when I'm working on something particularly complex, or there's a lot of steps to it.
Things like if I'm investigating a phishing email, spear phishing email, and I'm tracking down who
it is, what's going on, what the payload is, etc., etc. I might use a mind map to kind of map that
out.
So let's take a look at this one.
And mind maps are great for again kind of mapping things out.
And this particular one for Twitter or X.
since.
Well, unfortunately, since it got taken over, they really killed a lot of useful features in it that
allow open source intelligence investigators to actually investigate things, and also for doing metrics
and whatnot.
That's why it's important to fall back onto the basics.
So let's take a look at this.
So if we're doing an investigation on on Twitter X first we have the username.
Wherever you're starting from you're always going to have be able to get the username.
Now from here we could take a look at when did they join.
Was it creation around a significant event.
Likes who brought her look at into the individual by looking at what they clicked is like what they
replied to.
Again, a broader look into the individual.
That or individuals that are running the account.
Twitter handle.
Do a search for that particular handle and see if it comes up anywhere else.
This is a parody or a similar name to someone else.
Who are they following?
Well, let's go up here actually.
Twitter posts.
So comments from the comments.
Who's commenting on their posts with their usernames?
What are their Twitter pages?
What do they like?
Comment, retweets?
Media following followers?
Basically, we take the same same steps that we're taking with the main account and looking at the people
that are commenting or liking the post from this individual.
Take a look at the retweets again.
Who are they retweeting?
What do they like?
What were they doing?
Does any of that, um, post or repost tie back to the person we're investigating?
And we do the same thing with who they're following, who's following them.
And we get to the media.
So what type of media are they posting?
Is there any metadata?
Probably not, because it gets scrubbed.
Is there a possible geolocation?
We can take a look at the photo and try to determine where the location is.
What is the content within that photo or that video?
What's the possible context behind it?
Was there any sort of manipulation, photo or video wise?
Is it a bot account?
Take a look at, uh, how it's posting.
Potentially put it in some like bot or not or other programs to try to determine if it's a bot.
Take a look at how it's how it's speaking.
Is it, uh, AI generated, uh, text that is, uh, producing and are there any archived or modified
posts?
Did they edit the post?
And can you find any things like Internet Archive?
These are different ways in kind of a kind of a walk through of investigating Twitter or X accounts
and posts.
And again, this is available for download in the resource section.
Thank you so much for watching, and I'll see you in the next video.