uncovering-tweetstars-whos-behind-that-twitter

http://blog.makensi.es/post/15557916383/uncovering-tweetstars-whos-behind-that-twitter

I am recently getting quite carried away about information gathering and open source intelligence in general. Following the publication of the Skip Tracing Framework I have been looking for new ways to extract useful information about particular targets from unexpected sources. It is surprising how much information is available out there just waiting to be discovered.
One of my unexplored grounds was Twitter. Given its insane popularity it can be very well included in traditional reconnaissance proccesses that used to gather people email addresses for various purposes. People now have Twitter accounts and you can sometimes reach them more easily through a @mention than via email. Furthermore, unlike traditional email, Twitter can also reveal special connections between certain individuals which can help to aim better when conducting investigations.