Social Signals ⁽¹⁰⁾

At first glance, a social post looks simple. A sentence, an image, a timestamp, maybe some likes or shares. But behind that tiny rectangle of content is a mess of invisible information - metadata that tells you far more than what’s written. Most people never…

If you’ve ever seen something online - an outrageous tweet, a sudden Instagram Story, a quietly worded update on a brand’s site - and then tried to find it again later, you know the feeling. It’s gone. Just like that. And suddenly, you’re not even…

It starts with a single post. A birthday message, a product launch, a stray political meme. From there, the trail grows. Post after post, caption after caption, you begin to see patterns - what someone said, what they deleted, how their tone changed, when a…

There’s a moment in every open-source investigation when you find something too good. A deleted post, a careless tweet, an old image in someone else’s archive that shouldn't have survived. And the question isn't "Can I use this?" The question is "Should I?" Social media…

People leave trails. Most of the time, they don’t realize how deep they go. You don’t need a private investigator’s badge or access to police databases to understand someone’s story. These days, all you really need is their digital echo - their usernames, forgotten blogs,…