> [!info] > Input: [[Social Media Account|friends' accounts]] > Output: [[Social Media Account|friends' accounts in another platform]], [[Social Media Account|probable account of a person]] > > Types: [[Behavioural Weakness|behavioural]] > Weakness: [[SOWEL-2. Producing Social Graph]] ### Explanation If a person's account in a particular social platform does not provide us with useful information or is unknown, but we know the person's friends, then due to the weaknesses "Producing Social Graph", we can obtain new useful information. The technique involves searching for the accounts of the person's friends on another social platform (using technique [[SOTL-2.2. Search For Accounts On Other Platforms]]) and then studying the common connections of these accounts. It is likely that their mutual friend will be the account of the person we are looking for, but on a different social platform. ### Examples - [Identifying Followers of a Private Instagram Profile: A Case Study Guide](https://blog.sociallinks.io/identifying-followers-of-a-private-instagram-profile-a-case-study-guide/) - [Former President Medvedev's Son - Vivino account](https://www.rferl.org/a/russa-medvedev-son-ilya-putin/32017013.html) ### Tools {{some links to tools}} ### See also - [[SOTL-2.2. Search For Accounts On Other Platforms]]