Socialscope

This tool will provide you with everything you need to write a comprehensive report on a target's online life.

Click the links to the left to get started.

Preliminary Research

Writing a report on someone's public online presence requires you to figure out their usernames email addresses.

This process is more art than science. Luckily, however, people tend to reuse usernames across websites. You'll use this tendency to great effect.

Download the template below and start filling it out with what you already know. Consider the portion before the @ symbol in a person's email address to be a username, as well as their custom Facebook URL on their personal Facebook, and their Twitter username. From there, you'll simply have to Google and be creative.

Remember: just because someone has used a username on one website doesn't preclude a different person owning it on another website. If you can't prove an account is owned by your target, don't include it. If under unusual circumstances you do include this information in your report, make abundantly clear the difficulty in proving a link to your target.

Before using this tool, you should fully read the Social Media Vetting page on the Oppotools encyclopedia. The preliminary research template, downloadable below, should be revisited and updated as you complete the rest of your resarch.

Username search

Facebook

Instructions
The first step here is locating your target's Facebook account. Using's Facebook's search tool shouldn't require any special instructions here, but a surface level inspection of their public profile should give you the beginning of your writeup in the template below. After that, move to the search tool to find other potential Facebook content.

Below is a tool for inspecting public Facebook interactions that are not searchable on a target's profile, such as interactions with public posts and events.

First, Find your target's Facebook ID. Then click the corresponding buttons to view various types of account activity. Please remember to allow popups in your browser! Otherwise, this site won't work.

Twitter

Reviewing someone's Twitter account isn't as complicated as reviewing someone's Facebook. Find their personal account, and

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Google

Google competes with Facebook in the realm of confusing privacy settings. The problem is compounded by the fact that Google runs a more sprawling array of services.

The searches below will help you find public profiles on some of Google's most important platforms. Search both real names and known usernames.

LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a place where people will - voluntarily - give you their work history in chronological order. It's like they're doing your job for you, for free. It's also a tremendously useful place to research businesses. You can figure out who they employed, and when they were employed, and what they did. If your target owned the company, that's useful information that you probably will have a hard time getting elsewhere. You will likely need a LinkedIn account to view this information.

Other Social Media

Search known usernames though more obscure social media sites, and see what comes up.

Blogs

It is an axiom of opposition research that anyone who had an old blog used it to say something stupid. Furthermore, blogs cover things that regular news miss, and may provide interesting insights on your target. The old blogosphere wasn't cohesive enough to search in one place, but the resources below are a good starting point. Remember: if your target is a candidate, finding an unreported old blog is generally a huge deal. You don't want to miss one.

Photo Storage

The internet is full of forgotten photo accounts. Photobucket was the mid '00s goto account, while Imgur is Reddit's photo sharing storage app of choice. Flicker is popular among photographers.

Ecommerce

There are dozens of ecommerce platforms, but there are a few big ones that are worth searching for user accounts. Searching Venmo will require an account.

Domain Registration Data

People who register domains need to report some level of information about themselves.

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