Twitter OSiNT (Ethical Hacking)

About this video

NetworkChuck demonstrates Twint, which he expands as Twitter Intelligence, as an OSINT tool for gathering public Twitter information — explicitly not for hacking into Twitter or anyone’s account, and with a warning that intent matters and use should be educational and with permission. He stresses, as his claims about the tool, that it needs no API, no Twitter login and no rate limit because it scrapes Twitter. Setup in Google Cloud Shell (or any Linux machine with git, Python 3 and pip) is: git clone with –depth 1, change into the directory, then pip3 install -r requirements.txt. Via the CLI he shows twint -u for a username, –limit to cap results such as the last 20 tweets, -s to search a user’s tweets for a keyword like raspberry pi, -o with –json to save results to a file, –min-likes to filter popular tweets, –since to filter by date, –images for image-only tweets, –near for a place like Dallas or Paris, and -g for geo-coordinates with a radius. He then shows the more powerful Python use: importing twint, creating a script that takes search and city inputs, setting twint.Config fields for search, near, limit and popular tweets, and calling twint.run.Search, plus a second script that collects people who tweeted at him that day and pulls their recent tweets. He frames information gathering as a vital part of hacking.

Key takeaways

• Twint scrapes Twitter with, per creator, no API, login or rate limit
• Install via git clone –depth 1 and pip3 install -r requirements.txt
• CLI filters: -u username, –limit, -s keyword, –min-likes, –since, –images
• Location search works via –near place or -g coordinates plus radius; output via -o –json
• Python module use: import twint, set Config fields, run twint.run.Search

Episode details: published April 29, 2021 · 14:19 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are NetworkChuck’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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