After gathering some basic information about the target Twitter account in this lecture, I would like
to show you how can you use search operators to narrow down your search?
Now, this is very similar to what we have done when we use search operators with search engines to
narrow down our search.
But this time we are going to use this on Twitter or X.
The search operators are going to be different than the ones that we have used them with search engines.
So the first two search operators that I would like to show you are from and to and from will basically
show you all the tweets from a certain person, and two will show you all the tweets or replies to a
certain Twitter or X account.
All right.
So we already know that Rishi Kabra has only two tweets as you can see here.
So using these search operators with his account is not going to be useful.
And in a future lecture I would like to show you how can you find all the deleted all tweets from his
account?
But we will keep this to another section.
So I'm going to be searching for the security and try these search operators with this account.
So here we have the security and we can see that there are many tweets as you can see here.
And using these search operators it's going to be helpful to find certain information about this profile.
So I'm going to the search bar and say from and I want to see all the tweets from this security.
So I'm going to say z security or the username.
And then I'm going to hit enter.
And now I will see all the tweets from Z security.
And this is not helpful for now.
But what we can do is for example search for a certain search term.
So I'm going to say email and then hit enter.
And maybe he has tweeted an email address that belongs to the security.
So I'm going to scroll down and we can see that there is an email address that is mentioned, which
is probably something that we can get from his website.
And we will cover this in the web Osint section.
But this is a very useful technique that you can use to find any mentioned emails on the target, Twitter
or X account.
Now let's modify the search and say from cyber pseudo To the security.
Now, please keep in mind that you need to enter the username and not the display name of the target
Twitter account.
And here we are telling Twitter if Cyber Sudo has ever tweeted or replied to a certain tweet that Z
security made.
So let me hit enter.
And you can see that out of these hundreds of tweets, we were only able to get one tweet between Cyber
Sudo and the security.
So let me see the post.
I'm going to click on it and then scroll up and you can see that he asked which thumbnail do we prefer?
And R responded with the red one.
So if we would like to see any connection or any tweets sent from a certain account to another, then
we can use the from and two search operators to only find the information that we need.
Next, I would like to show you two search operators that are very, very helpful to narrow down your
search.
And the first one is synth, which will allow you to find tweets or posts after a specified date and
until will only show you tweets and posts post before a specified date.
So we can say from the security since 2024 January 1st until 2024 January 15th.
And this will show us all the search results or all the posts that are posted within this range.
Now let's come back.
Let me show you how we can combine multiple search operators that we have learned so far.
So I'm going to say from and then I'm going to say cyber pseudo.
And then I will say since 2024 January 1st until 2024 January 15th.
And this will show me all the tweets that are posted between January 1st and January 15th.
And I'm going to hit enter.
And now you'll see that I only have two tweets that I sent to YouTube team asking to recover my YouTube
channel.
We can of course use only one search operator so I can remove until and say since and this will show
me all the posts or all search results since January 1st, 2024.