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Find someone using a twitter account

  • May 3, 2018
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I am trying to find a way to search for a student who maybe posting some harassing content on twitter to our faculty. I figure if they are using our district owned devices then I should be able to run a script to search for them. Anyone done something similar? I figure if I run a search of web cache using the twitter username, maybe?

Thanks for any help anyone can provide,

Gabe Shackney
Princeton Public Schools

GabePrinceton Public Schools

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  • May 3, 2018

You'll need to write something that searches for a string inside the user's cookies.

For Chrome Cookies are inside a SQLite Database at ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Cookies

and the bit you need is like this

"u=173032736"

Use this web-site to find what the ID of the username is

https://tweeterid.com/

So you'll need to write something that dumps the Twitter cookies from the SQLite DB, searches for their userID...etc

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