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.
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.
Kribrum: An online reputation management tool.
Mail.Ru Social Network Search: A social network search engine from the Russian internet company Mail.Ru.
MustBePresent: A tool that allows users to track who is present or absent from a Twitter chat.
Netvibes: A multilingual Ajax-based personalized start page or personal web portal.
Oblivion: A tool that collects public and private user data from social networks.
OpinionCrawl: An online tool that identifies sentiment and opinion in online news and blogs.
Profil3r: A tool that collects a target’s profiles on popular websites from an email or a username.
Rival IQ: A competitive analytics tool that tracks your competitors’ activities on social media, SEO keywords, and website content.
SocialBakers: A social media marketing platform offering analytics, planning, content intelligence, and ad insights.
SociaBlade: A website that tracks social media statistics and analytics.
Social DownORNot: A tool that checks the status of various social media platforms.
SocialGrep: A Reddit search engine/analysis tool “signals out of the social web of noise.”
Social Searcher: A free social media search engine that allows you to monitor all public social mentions on social networks and the web.
Sprout Social: A social media management tool created to help businesses grow their social media presence.
Tagboard: A social search and display platform.
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.
Without paid access to the API most or all of these are unusable.
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.
ExportData: Data export tool for historical tweets, followers & followings, and historical trends.
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.
HappyGrumpy (works as of June 2023).
MyTweetAlerts: A tool to create custom email alerts based on Twitter searches (seems operational as of June 2023).
Trends Predictions: A tool for discovering new trending topics.
TweetBeaver
TweetDeck: A social media dashboard application for the management of Twitter accounts.
TweetMap: A real-time map of Twitter activity around the world.
TweetStats: A tool to track Twitter statistics and generate graphs based on those statistics.
TweetTunnel: A tool to browse, search, and archive old tweets.
Twellow: A Twitter directory that helps find people by area of expertise, profession, or other attributes.
Twiangulate: A tool for analyzing Twitter user networks.
Twicsy: A search engine for finding Twitter images and videos.
Twilert: A tool for monitoring Twitter mentions and keywords.
Twipho: A search engine for finding Twitter images.
Twitonomy: A tool for analyzing Twitter accounts, including insights into follower demographics and post-performance.
Twitter Advanced Search: A search engine for advanced Twitter searches.
Twitter Audit: A tool for analyzing the authenticity of Twitter followers.
Twitter Chat Schedule: A schedule of upcoming Twitter chats.
Twitter Counter: A tool for analyzing Twitter follower growth and engagement.
Twitterfall: A real-time Twitter search and analysis tool.
Twitter Search: A search engine for finding Twitter content.
TWUBS Twitter Chat: A tool for participating in Twitter chats.
Schedule Warble: A tool for scheduling and automating Twitter posts.
Agora Pulse: A platform that allows users to manage their social media content, analytics, and audience engagement.
Commun.it: A social media management tool designed to help users manage their Twitter and Instagram accounts.
Fanpage Karma: A tool for analyzing Facebook pages and tracking their performance.
Facebook Friend List Scraper: A tool for scraping large Facebook friend lists without being rate-limited.
Facebook Search: A Facebook search engine.
Facebook Search Tool: A tool for searching Facebook posts, comments, likes, and more.
Fb-sleep-stats: A tool for analyzing Facebook Messenger activity.
Find my Facebook ID: A tool for finding your Facebook user ID.
Lookup-ID.com: A tool for finding Facebook IDs.
SearchIsBack: A tool for searching Facebook posts, comments, photos, videos, and more.
Wolfram Alpha Facebook Report: A report generator for Facebook profiles.
haveibeenzuckered: A tool for checking if a telephone number is present within the Facebook data breach.
Hashtagify: A tool for analyzing and finding the most popular hashtags on Twitter and Instagram.
Iconosquare: A tool for managing and analyzing Instagram accounts, including insights into follower demographics and post-performance.
Osintgram: Osintgram offers an interactive shell to perform analysis on the Instagram accounts of any user by its nickname.
Picodash: A tool for analyzing Instagram accounts, including insights into follower demographics and post performance.
SnapMap: A tool for visualizing and analyzing Snapchat activity on a map.
Social Rank: A tool for analyzing Twitter and Instagram followers, including insights into followers’ interests and locations.
Sierra: A tool for analyzing and visualizing Twitter user networks.
Toutatis: A tool for analyzing Twitter data, including tweet sentiment analysis and network analysis.
- Pingroupie: A search engine for finding and analyzing Pinterest group boards.
Tools to help discover more about a Reddit user or Subreddit.
Imgur: The most popular image hosting website used by Redditors.
Mostly Harmless: Mostly Harmless looks up the page you are currently viewing to see if it has been submitted to Reddit.
Reddit Archive: Historical archives of Reddit posts.
Reddit Suite: Enhances your Reddit experience.
Reddit User Analyser: Reddit user account analyzer.
Subreddits: Discover new subreddits.
Reddit Comment Search: Analyze a Reddit user by comment history.
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.
Reddit Comment Lookup: Search for Reddit comments by Reddit username.
VKontakte
Perform various OSINT on the Russian social media site VKontakte.
Дезертир: A program to download audio and video from VKontakte.
Barkov.net: A collection of tools for analyzing and searching VKontakte.
Report Tree: A tool for analyzing the repost history of a VKontakte post.
Snradar: A tool for searching for pictures on VKontakte based on the time and location they were taken.
VK5: A tool for searching for specific content on VKontakte.
VK Community Search: A search engine for VKontakte groups.
VK Parser: A tool for searching for a target audience and potential customers on VKontakte.
VK People Search: A search engine for VKontakte users.
VK.watch: A tool for monitoring VKontakte activity and collecting data.
Tumblr
- 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.
Telemetry: An affordable API to search, monitor and discover Telegram messages and channels at-scale.