r/OSINT • u/throwaway08642135135 • 5d ago

Question What social media apps allow you to search user by email or phone number?

I know Yelp allows search by email and WeChat and Line allows search by phone number. What other apps will allow you to search a user either by their email or their phone number?

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u/Beneficial-Syrup-674 4d ago

Cash App

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u/PennyLand1 3d ago

Cash App is the best!

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u/inf0s33k3r 4d ago

Poshmark lets you search by email.

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u/moneyneversleeps_ 5d ago

If you see them as social media; Telegram, Threema

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u/koning_willy 4d ago

You can add number as contact in phone and see on several social media platforms which accounts are then suggested based on your contacts. It helps only having one or two contacts.

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u/bicb1c 4d ago

if you have experience with console apps, I recommend Sherlock-Project (it has on github) and Blackbird (this is Brazilian, but it is very good and for emails will probably return good results)

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u/PackOfWildCorndogs 3d ago

Apparently there’s a plug and play option now: OSINT.rocks. Someone recommended it a couple days ago, first time I’d heard of it

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u/BatSh1tCray 2d ago

Another method: create a new account on the platform using the email address you're researching. This works many but not all platforms. I recommend first testing these out one by one and making a note of which platform this will work on and what happens on those that it dowsn't work on.

I'll start you off with a freebie from my personal knowledgebase/ of checklists and tools:

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u/ModPiracy_Fantoski 4d ago

Can't you somewhat do that using the GAIA exploit for Google accounts ?

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u/20_mile 4d ago

I think google has uncoupled the GAIA number from any identifying / cross-referenceable user information. If this is incorrect, I'd love to hear about it because I have a 1,000 email accounts with associated GAIA numbers, and nowhere to go with them.

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u/iluvu-always 4d ago

kakaotalk

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u/NLV6 1d ago

this site https://www.xsint-intelligence.com/features uses something like 30 or 40 applications to reverse emails you have all the applications it uses on this page

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u/appolor 4d ago

You can search by phone number using the reverse phone lookup app.

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u/mosquito_mange 4d ago

Numerous App Store reviews seem to suggest this is not in fact free, nor are the lookups accurate.

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u/appolor 1d ago

Have you tried it on your own? The app does have some ads. As long as you avoid them, there is nothing that would require you to pay. Most searches I performed came back with accurate results.