Conducting online discovery research on a person or business of interest should always begin with a strategy. Using critical thinking and formatting your search around your case will save you a great deal of time and effort. When beginning research on a subject you want to start by capturing the data that you know to […]
General Social Media Information
2021 Social Media Predictions
Social Media exploded this year. In July, the number of social media users reached 4.57 billion (which equates to half the population), as predicted by Hootsuite and We Are Social, with 346 million new users joining in the 12 months prior.Social Media continues to evolve and we are here to take a look at what is […]
Reddit is growing. What You Need to Know
Reddit is a growing platform and has become the go to online community for many people looking to voice opinions. And what better year to do that than 2020? In August, we published a post about Reddit and Riots. There, we reported that Reddit has grown its user base by 30%. The self-proclaimed front page […]
TikTok Intelligence & Research
Tik Tok has become the new “hot” social media platform with a huge amount of scrutiny around it. China launched it in 2016 and it grew to the US and UK markets in 2018. What is it and How Does it Work? It started as a lip-synch video app but now has morphed into an […]
OSINT Research & False Positives
A great deal of time must be spend on OSINT in order to weed out false positives – good intelligence vs bad intelligence. The degree of reliability and authenticity. The importance of an accurate starting point is critical when taking your research on a person of interest to the world wide web. We will dive […]