3 - Twint - an OSINT Tool for Collection on Twitter at Scale

<p><a href="https://github.com/twintproject/twint">Twint</a> is an advanced Twitter scraping tool written in Python that allows for scraping Tweets from Twitter profiles <b>without</b> using Twitter’s API.&nbsp; That being said, it does violate Twitter’s TOS so use of this tool should be used with caution.&nbsp; I recommend research purposes only.&nbsp; Twint solves one big problem with Twitter: the API limits.&nbsp; Currently, Twitter’s API only allows you to pull the last 3200 tweets from a user. That presents problems for a number of reasons, but it is a huge factor for accounts that tweet very frequently or are legacy accounts going back years (or over a decade!). The developer of Twint is <a href="https://twitter.com/noneprivacy?lang=en">Francesco Poldi</a>.&nbsp; He and I have worked on many projects together including <a href="https://github.com/pielco11/JungleScam">JungleScam</a> and <a href="https://github.com/pielco11/Platypus">Platypus</a>. He is also working on Intelgram, which is currently in private beta. Twint, however, is probably the OSINT tool I use most in my workflow.&nbsp; This is primarily because it’s so easy to use and allows for an insane amount of customization with very limited Python experience.<br><br><a href="https://jakecreps.com/2019/06/25/twint/">https://jakecreps.com/2019/06/25/twint/</a></p>