WEBVTT 00:00.380 --> 00:03.410 In this video we're going to take a look at Twitter again. 00:03.410 --> 00:05.480 And it's going to be kind of a follow up. 00:05.480 --> 00:09.380 So with Twitter I dropped off. 00:09.380 --> 00:14.150 Once it got taken over, things kind of went, in my opinion, downhill. 00:14.180 --> 00:18.170 A lot of tools that were great for Twitter got killed. 00:18.200 --> 00:26.120 And it's much, much harder to do open source intelligence on Twitter in terms of using different tools 00:26.120 --> 00:28.580 to help you with your with that process. 00:28.580 --> 00:39.200 So in the previous video, I kind of went over a chart for kind of investigating Twitter. 00:39.200 --> 00:45.080 But in this video we're going to kind of take a look at Twitter itself or X as it's called now, and 00:45.080 --> 00:46.370 kind of go through it. 00:47.420 --> 00:53.270 So of course you do want to use a sock puppet account for using this. 00:53.300 --> 00:56.690 And either you have to register by phone or you could do email. 00:56.690 --> 00:58.310 You could use Google. 00:58.430 --> 01:04.360 I used a a sock puppet Google account and created a Twitter account. 01:04.390 --> 01:08.170 Now our X account. 01:09.400 --> 01:15.550 So for the most part, again, I don't use X or Twitter anymore. 01:16.150 --> 01:19.930 Uh, a lot of the people I use to follow are gone now. 01:19.960 --> 01:28.420 It's not a great place to be in terms of viewing messages and kind of what people are saying for the 01:28.420 --> 01:29.380 most part. 01:29.710 --> 01:38.080 It's definitely geared a lot towards conspiracy theory and, uh, illegal activities, misinformation, 01:38.080 --> 01:40.090 disinformation and whatnot. 01:40.330 --> 01:45.880 So creating an account for this again, is useful in that regard. 01:45.880 --> 01:51.490 If you're looking for misinformation, you're looking for disinformation, you're looking for illegal 01:51.490 --> 01:56.740 activities, hate speech, uh, hate groups and whatnot. 01:58.210 --> 02:02.290 X is a good platform for that, unfortunately. 02:02.560 --> 02:05.500 Fortunately, unfortunately to to view. 02:06.820 --> 02:11.140 So creating an account, I'm not going to go over that. 02:11.140 --> 02:13.570 That's pretty straightforward to get in there. 02:13.570 --> 02:19.930 And when you're choosing the what topics that you're interested in, I would definitely pick topics 02:19.930 --> 02:24.070 that you want that you want to do your searches geared towards. 02:24.070 --> 02:26.740 That's going to make things easier for you. 02:26.950 --> 02:30.070 So once you're in here, this is what it looks like now. 02:30.070 --> 02:35.770 And we can explore things we could use grok if you're paying for it. 02:35.770 --> 02:38.590 I'm I'm definitely not going to spend money on this. 02:38.590 --> 02:46.630 We can see the blue check mark is our people that are the premium members here. 02:46.900 --> 02:49.150 There's communities that we could take a look at. 02:49.150 --> 02:52.240 So depending on what we're searching we can take a look at communities. 02:52.240 --> 02:55.720 And of course we could take a look at the different users. 02:55.720 --> 03:01.960 So if I'm doing an investigation on someone and there's a particular tweet I'm looking at, I'm going 03:01.990 --> 03:06.070 to take a look at who posted it in this case, who originally posted this. 03:06.100 --> 03:09.160 This is something that just came up on the feed. 03:09.280 --> 03:10.860 I'm going to take a look at them. 03:10.860 --> 03:16.380 I'm going to take a look at their their tags, their their usernames, their their name. 03:16.380 --> 03:18.240 So I'll take that name. 03:18.240 --> 03:20.490 If I was investigating this person, I would take that name. 03:20.490 --> 03:23.340 I would put it into a people search, start getting information from them. 03:23.340 --> 03:32.010 I would also take the username, it's Joshua Lake, take that and start seeing if that account was used 03:32.010 --> 03:32.490 anywhere else. 03:32.490 --> 03:34.680 And if it was, is it the same person? 03:34.680 --> 03:38.370 I'm going to take a look at the other tag information. 03:38.400 --> 03:42.930 Things like CEO of Discovery Crypto, whatever. 03:42.930 --> 03:44.700 I'm going to take a look at that. 03:44.730 --> 03:48.300 I'm going to take a look at if he has a website, which apparently he does. 03:48.300 --> 03:52.560 I'm going to take a look at when that was registered, where it was registered, what type of information 03:52.560 --> 03:53.850 I could glean from that. 03:53.880 --> 04:00.810 I'm going to take a look at who's following, who's following, um, him, who he's following. 04:00.810 --> 04:02.310 I'm going to see who liked. 04:02.310 --> 04:07.950 I'm going to see who, who commented on it, who's he's commenting on, and so on. 04:07.950 --> 04:08.910 And so forth. 04:08.940 --> 04:12.420 Take the images to reverse image searches and whatnot. 04:12.510 --> 04:13.980 pretty standard stuff. 04:13.980 --> 04:21.300 So other things we can do are we can go into the search field and I can if you could type any search 04:21.300 --> 04:21.690 you want. 04:21.720 --> 04:23.370 So if I type in Q. 04:25.380 --> 04:27.630 It's going to give you some basic stuff. 04:27.630 --> 04:34.470 Q in the shadows, gone in Queen Empress booking, blah, blah, blah. 04:34.800 --> 04:37.320 And we have different Q in on stuff. 04:37.320 --> 04:38.160 Of course. 04:38.670 --> 04:45.690 Now if we go up into the up in here, we can click on these little three dots here, click on more. 04:45.690 --> 04:47.910 And we could do advanced searches. 04:47.910 --> 04:51.060 So this is going to make your searches a lot easier. 04:51.060 --> 04:55.500 For the most part we could take a look at keywords and put it in quotes. 04:56.010 --> 05:09.330 Or we could we could combine it contains say we could type in uh quote Q-anon and Trump. 05:09.330 --> 05:12.690 For example, we could do exact phrases. 05:12.690 --> 05:16.790 We could do example contains either or. 05:16.820 --> 05:18.560 Either cats or dogs, or both. 05:18.590 --> 05:22.550 For example, we could we could make sure we could exclude words. 05:22.550 --> 05:23.870 We could search by hashtags. 05:23.870 --> 05:25.010 We could search by languages. 05:25.010 --> 05:30.590 So if there's a particular language that you know that the tweets that you're searching for are going 05:30.590 --> 05:34.400 to be under, say, Korean, you can click on that and you can search by that. 05:34.400 --> 05:39.710 You can search by accounts, you can search by mentions of accounts. 05:39.710 --> 05:46.760 And there's other filters that we could do minimum engagement, minimum likes, dates, date, range. 05:46.790 --> 05:54.260 It's really handy if we know that there's a likely activity within a certain date range. 05:54.260 --> 05:55.610 We could put those date ranges in. 05:55.610 --> 05:57.980 So I have QAnon and Trump. 05:57.980 --> 06:00.920 I'm just going to click on search and see what happens here. 06:01.700 --> 06:04.940 And we have some some stuff in here. 06:05.000 --> 06:07.550 Republicans against Trump QAnon. 06:07.820 --> 06:13.370 Uh, hashtag pedo Trump, hashtag MAGA Trump QAnon. 06:13.370 --> 06:20.780 So we could see that it pulled those those different tweets that contained both Trump and QAnon. 06:20.780 --> 06:26.000 So again, really useful filters for if we know what we're looking for. 06:26.990 --> 06:37.580 We can also do things like to at let's do on Musk. 06:39.110 --> 06:45.590 And we could do say QAnon. 06:47.420 --> 06:54.620 So tweets to Elon Musk that are about QAnon. 06:56.600 --> 07:03.890 And we can see Elon Musk just separate Q and anon, and we can see all these different posts that are 07:03.890 --> 07:07.130 related to both Musk and QAnon. 07:07.760 --> 07:15.770 We could also do things like if I want to search particular sites like iPhone. 07:18.440 --> 07:20.630 And then I could do Amazon. 07:22.360 --> 07:30.010 For example, and this is going to pull up messages about iPhones on Amazon. 07:30.340 --> 07:33.280 Or I could change this to say. 07:37.210 --> 07:40.270 Um, cannabis. 07:40.780 --> 07:46.240 And let's see if it comes up with anything. 07:46.240 --> 07:48.100 Cannabis and Craigslist. 07:50.680 --> 07:52.120 And nothing come up there. 07:52.120 --> 07:52.750 But we could. 07:52.780 --> 07:53.950 But you kind of get the idea. 07:54.130 --> 08:01.210 We could do things, we could take a product and we could take a look at a site, um. 08:05.620 --> 08:06.580 Android. 08:06.580 --> 08:09.370 And we could do eBay, for example also. 08:12.130 --> 08:16.510 And we can see different eBay, uh, service, uh, tweets. 08:16.510 --> 08:20.320 And also that has uh, different things on there. 08:20.320 --> 08:26.050 So again really useful different search criteria for for X used to be Twitter. 08:26.080 --> 08:31.060 Even though we can't use a lot of tools that we used to use to verify. 08:31.450 --> 08:36.580 And personally, I really hate going on the site unless I'm looking for something specific in regards 08:36.580 --> 08:41.020 to, again, hate speech, misinformation, disinformation, things of that nature. 08:41.620 --> 08:47.140 Uh, X is an excellent space for those types of things. 08:47.140 --> 08:53.170 So if you're investigating any of those things or you're or you're trying to verify information, follow 08:53.170 --> 08:56.860 hate groups, things of that nature, definitely. 08:56.860 --> 08:59.800 I would make a sockpuppet account for X. 08:59.830 --> 09:08.770 Not that everything on here that gets posted is horrible things, but there unfortunately is a quite 09:08.800 --> 09:16.090 a big community around misinformation, disinformation and hate speech and such on here and also drug 09:16.090 --> 09:17.170 activity and whatnot. 09:17.170 --> 09:23.110 So again, if you're looking for that, go ahead and make a sock puppet account for X and make sure 09:23.110 --> 09:25.720 you check those advanced filters on X. 09:25.750 --> 09:28.300 Thank you for watching and I will see you in the next video.