> [!info] > Input: [[Social Media Platform|platform]] > Output: [[Technique|technique]] > > Types: [[Technical Weakness|technical]] > Weakness: [[SOWEL-15. Tolerating Privacy Gaps]] > Functionality: [[SOFL-22. Accounts]] ### Explanation Social media platforms continuously add features — stickers, group-invite links, "people you may know," presence indicators, share dialogs — without consistently auditing how each one exposes user identifiers. Each new feature is a potential leak: an endpoint that returns more data than the visible UI, an embed that carries the creator's ID, an invite link that resolves to a profile. Pick a platform and walk through its surface methodically — invite flows, content-creation flows, account-recovery flows, public APIs, deep-link handlers, embedded widgets. For each one, ask: does it return an identifier, a creator, a timestamp, or a pivot to another platform that isn't visible in the normal interface? Document everything you find. The output of this technique is a new OSINT technique you can apply to any target on that platform. Many of the techniques already in SOWEL — including the Telegram sticker- and invite-link examples below — were originally discovered this way. ### Examples - [How to find a Telegram sticker creator's account](https://t.me/HowToFind/70) - [How to use Telegram group join links to extract his creator's ID](https://telegra.ph/How-to-find-the-owner-and-administrator-of-a-Telegram-channel-11-02) ### Tools - [FindStickerCreatorBot](https://t.me/FindStickerCreatorBot) ### See also - {{internal links to similar techniques}}