### Explanation Social media platforms force people to create accounts and fill them with personal information and to link with phone numbers and email addresses. Gathering all account information you will get more possible points to pivot further. Highly likely you will see more information if you are registered in a social media network (for platforms it’s a way to lure users inside and get more data from them). As individuals like specific posts, follow certain pages, comment on particular topics, they create a pattern of interests. By understanding these patterns, you can potentially locate accounts that align with a known individual's interests, even if those accounts assumed to be anonymous. A common case is a knowledge of subscriptions to some local community groups or pages of well-known people. This method is often a part of SOCMINT investigations in which the subject's known interests act as a starting point: - interests, hobbies, affiliation - keywords - social media groups or pages ### Examples {{some links to articles, videos, etc}} ### Types business ### See also - {{internal links to similar weaknesses}} ### Typical techniques - [[SOTL-1.1. Check Account Creation Date]] - [[SOTL-4.1. Try To Recover Access]] - [[SOTL-1.3. Try To Register]] - [[SOTL-1.4. Analyze Internal Identifiers]] - [[SOTL-1.6. Iterate Through Numeric Identifiers]] - [[SOTL-1.7. Conduct Security Audit For Exposure Of Information]]