> [!info]
> Input: [[Social Media Account|personal account]]
> Output: [[Social Media Content|posts]], [[Social Media Activity|activity]], [[Personal Information (PI)|personal information]]
>
> Types: [[Technical Weakness|technical]]
> Weakness: [[SOWEL-19. Testing Something]]
### Explanation
Try to use old and unofficial clients for social media platforms/check API. The longer the platform’s development history, the more different functionality it will try and the longer the tail of functionality supported by the principle of backward compatibility.
### Examples
- [How to see Telegram channel initial title](https://telegra.ph/How-to-find-the-owner-and-administrator-of-a-Telegram-channel-11-02#History-of-channel-name-change)
- [Removed from official clients functionality of Notes in VK (on example of Pavel Durov)](https://vk.com/notes1)
- HIV status in some dating app is not displayed, but could be extracted from server response
### Tools
- [socid-extractor](https://github.com/soxoj/socid-extractor)- exploit some undocumented APIs of services to extract more information from personal account page
### See also
- [[SOTL-5.8. Check Minor Functionality]]