Analysing a person’s Twitter account is a very important step in the process of gathering general information about them. Twitter may not advertise extra details on the user profiles. But, data analysis and thanks to the public nature of how Twitter stores user profile communication, and the relationships, we have some tricks for you.

We are going to show you how to determine a Twitter user’s core network of friends and track them. You’re also going to be able to work out who their best friends are and their likely Geolocation. You may even be able to work out their real identity, habits, relationships, and motivations. Finally, we’ll show you how much money one of their tweets can be sold for.

For the purposes of the exercises here, we use our own Twitter account. You can too (https://twitter.com/Usersearch_web), or use your own.