[THREAD] OSINT/Opsec tip:
Twitter accounts list profiles that they are following / followed by in chronological order.
The first few accounts that a Twitter user chooses to follow offer a great insight into who the account might belong to.
Twitter accounts list profiles that they are following / followed by in chronological order.
The first few accounts that a Twitter user chooses to follow offer a great insight into who the account might belong to.
So if I want to know who might be associated to a Twitter account, looking at the fist 5-10 accounts they chose to follow offer more insights than, say, the 500th account they chose to follow.
Where the same few Twitter accounts appear early on in both followed/following lists this indicates a higher chance of prior association. Why did you choose to follow the first Twitter accounts in your Followed list? Chances are you had some prior interest/association.
This also poses an OPSEC risk to your sock puppets. If the first account you chose to follow was your own investigative agency followed by a few common algorithm picks like Trump/Obama, it easily stands out as a sock puppet. This may not be an issue, but worth consideration.
This method does not work for Facebook, since Friends appear in a randomised order. However it does work for Instagram so it is possible to make the same inferences about associations and origins.
