--- title: What is Social Media Intelligence? | daily.dev description: Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is a technique used by security researchers, hackers, and law enforcement to gather publicly available information about... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-social-media-intelligence--wc6iqclev twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What is Social Media Intelligence? | daily.dev og:description: Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is a technique used by security researchers, hackers, and law enforcement to gather publicly available information about... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-social-media-intelligence--wc6iqclev og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Wc6iqCLEv.png og:image:alt: What is Social Media Intelligence? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What is Social Media Intelligence? **[An0n Ali](https://daily.dev/sources/an0n_ali)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is a technique used by security researchers, hackers, and law enforcement to gather publicly available information about targets. Using a practical example, it demonstrates how social media photos can be geolocated by combining image cleanup tools (like cleanup.picture) with reverse image search on Yandex to identify locations even from partially obscured images. This serves as an introduction to a specific OSINT branch called Social Media Intelligence (SOCMINT). ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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