SOCMINT

Social-media intelligence. Subset of OSINT focused on platform-mediated user-generated content. Posts, comments, profiles, friend / follower graphs, geotags, media metadata, and the platform APIs and scraping surfaces that produce them.

SOCMINT covers X (Twitter), Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Reddit, TikTok, Telegram, Discord, Mastodon, Bluesky, VK, Weibo, Xiaohongshu, and the long tail of regional platforms.

The pages under this section follow the operator’s standard working set:

• SOCMINT Tools for the operator’s daily kit.

• SOCMINT Sources for the data sources collection draws from.

• SOCMINT Techniques for the tradecraft applied to those sources.

• SOCMINT Intel for the finished-product side, production cycle, and consumers.

• SOCMINT APIs for the programmatic data sources the operator pulls from.

References

• Intelligence Disciplines for the cross-discipline reference.