This document lists various social media tools for digital forensics, monitoring, and social media analysis. The tools are categorized by platform, including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, VKontakte, Tumblr, LinkedIn, and Telegram. Each tool is briefly described, and some are marked as operational or not.
Audiense: A tool to identify relevant audiences, discover actionable insights and inform strategies to grow your business.
Bottlenose: A real-time trend visualization and analysis platform.
Brandwatch: A social media listening and analytics platform.
Buffer: A social media management platform that allows users to schedule and publish content across multiple social media platforms.
BuzzSumo: A tool that provides content insights to generate ideas, create high-performing content, monitor performance and identify influencers.
CrowdTangle: A social analytics tool owned by Facebook to track how content spreads online.
Geocreepy: A tool that provides location information of social media content.
Geofeedia: A tool that provides location-based social media monitoring and intelligence.
Hashtatit: A tool that allows users to search for hashtags across multiple social media platforms.
Hootsuite: A social media management platform that allows users to manage multiple social media accounts, schedule and publish content, and track social media performance.
IDCrawl: A people search engine that searches for a name in popular social networks.
Klear: A social intelligence platform that provides insights into social media audiences and influencers.
Trackur: An online reputation and social media monitoring tool.
UVRX: Provides search across various social networks.
WATools: A suite of tools for WhatsApp, including a contact finder and a social media analyzer.
Twitter
Updated the loss of Twitter tools through (June 18). The highlighted items have not yet been checked. If it’s not highlighted and not crossed out, then it’s still operational:
Alldaytrends: A website where you can find trending hashtags.
Backtweets: BackTweets is a Twitter analytics tool that allows users to search through a Tweet archive.
Birdspotter: A tool to automate Twitter searches. This service is not maintained anymore due to Twitter’s API price changes in March 2023.
Blue Nod: This service appears to be operational and provides data-driven reports to identify key opinion leaders in various industries. It offers detailed profiles of these influencers, including contact details and descriptions of their activities.
Foller.me: This tool provides Twitter analytics showing followers, hashtags, topics, mentions, and other statistics for any public Twitter profile. It also shows additional details not shown on public Twitter pages, such as join date, timezone, and follower ratio.
Followerwonk: This tool is operational and has been improved with new features. It provides functionality to analyze, optimize, and measure Twitter engagement. Following Twitter’s API changes, Followerwonk was acquired by Fedica, which has added smarter AI-driven tools to the service. Purchased by Fedica in 2023.
Universal Scammer List: This acts as the website portion for the subreddit /r/universalscammerlist. That subreddit, in conjunction with this website and a Reddit bot, manages a list of malicious Reddit accounts and minimizes the damage they can deal. This list is referred to as the “USL” for short.
FTL: Browser plugin that finds emails of people’s profiles on LinkedIn.
Telegram
4CAT: 4CAT is a data analysis tool for Telegram. It provides features for searching and analyzing large amounts of data from Telegram channels and groups.
AWESOME Telegram: A curated list of open-source intelligence tools and resources for Telegram.
Archiving Telegram: A guide on how to archive Telegram content for research and documentation purposes.
Communalytic: Communalytic is a platform for social media analysis, including Telegram. It offers various analytics and monitoring features to understand user behavior, engagement, and trends.
Junkapedia: Junkapedia is a platform that provides information and resources related to Telegram. It includes guides, tutorials, and tips for using Telegram effectively.
Telegram Nearby Map: Telegram Nearby Map is a web application based on OpenStreetMap and the official Telegram library. It allows you to find the position of nearby users on Telegram.
Telegago: Telegago is a Google Advanced Search specifically designed for finding public and private Telegram channels and chatrooms. It helps you discover relevant Telegram communities based on your interests.
Tgstat: Tgstat is a platform that provides statistical data and analytics for Telegram channels. It offers insights into channel growth, engagement, and audience demographics.
Social Media Tools
This document lists various social media tools for digital forensics, monitoring, and social media analysis. The tools are categorized by platform, including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, VKontakte, Tumblr, LinkedIn, and Telegram. Each tool is briefly described, and some are marked as operational or not.
Twitter
Updated the loss of Twitter tools through (June 18). The highlighted items have not yet been checked. If it’s not highlighted and not crossed out, then it’s still operational:
Facebook
Instagram
Pinterest
Reddit
Tools to help discover more about a Reddit user or Subreddit.
VKontakte
Perform various OSINT on the Russian social media site VKontakte.
Tumblr
LinkedIn
Telegram