Performing Osint on Twitter Accounts | CyberSecurity Tutorials | Twint Tool

Hey Guys, welcome back. So today I am back with another blog, and as per the response on my previous blog I decided to bring more of them on Open Source Intelligence(Osint) We would be researching up the Twitter accounts as, after Instagram, it also has a huge amount of active users on it. But, before we get into the setup, let me warn you that the knowledge you get must never be used to inflict harm to an individual or an organization, and if that happens, we (thedecentshub) will not be held liable.

Lab Environment Configu

Now telling you a bit about the tool, so we will be using up the tool named Twint to perform the same task. 

So let's start without any further ado:-

Pre-requisites for using this tool

So here, first of all, I am going to tell you a special trick though which if you guys, don't have a good PC to work with can work without any worry. I would suggest you use up the Google Cloud Console in which you get around to work for free for around 50 hrs/week which is more than enough and is good to go to work with this tool. The only thing you need is a Gmail account which can be created for free with a click.

After the whole setup, we are good to go, so just follow the steps provided below to start investigating Twitter Accounts.

Required Steps 

STEP1:- The first step we need to follow is to clone the repository from the tool's GitHub repository available.

Use command -

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/twintproject/twint.git

 

Note:- The flag --depth is used to make sure that the latest commit from the repository gets cloned.   

STEP2:- After cloning the repo, we need to go inside the cloned directory.

For that Linux users can use cd twint to enter into it, whereas Windows users can simply enter up click the repo name.

STEP3:- It involves installing all the requirements needed to work with this tool, and for that as well you do not need to have any worries, because the tool already provides you with the requirements.txt file which you can use to perform the task.

Use command -

pip3 install . -r requirements.txt

Now after performing all these tasks successfully, you are good to go and the best thing is that you do not need to have any dummy account for working up.

So now, just type twint -h, and you can find all the flags you can use up to perform the recon.

For looking information regarding a username, use the command:-

twint -u username 

 Now for searching a particular text amongst tweets done by a particular user use -

twint -u username -s keyword

 

You can check for some other actions, you can perform using this tool by following the link:-

https://github.com/twintproject/twint#cli-basic-examples-and-combos

 

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