Social Media Locator

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Social Media Locator is a source which examines an individual's digital footprint in social media and the open Web. Hundreds of social networking sites and millions of websites, including deep Web, are checked in one search and a results list is returned. Historical and deleted social media accounts may possibly be included in the results as well.
 

 Search Tips

For optimal results enter Name, City, State, Phone, and Email. It is recommended to enter as much information as possible. Processing the search may take time to return results, please wait for the search to complete.

You can also click on the Social Media Locator link which appears on the Comprehensive Person Report results page.
 

 Search Results

The Results summary window shows the count of results by category. Results can be customized to display or hide specific results by clicking the category.

Results are grouped in the following 10 categories:

• Blogging and Forums
• Dating Network
• Geo Social Network
• Micro-blogging
• Music
• News and Media
• Online Commerce
• Picture and Video Sharing
• Social Network Profiles
• Other

A maximum of 500 results may be returned. The following is a list of the different pieces of information the displays on the results page:

• URL - When clicking on any URL, credentialing and log-on information for that particular website may be necessary. For example, you will need a valid Facebook logon ID to access data from the Facebook URL. 
• Category - this is the 10 categories listed above that the result falls into.
• Content - relevant content pulled from the page.
• Data Match - the data from the search form that matched the result.
• Rating - the confidence in the match. Ratings can be very high, high, medium and low.

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 Coverage

Social Media Locator searches publicly available real-time and historical social media data and Web information. 

The following is a sample of some of the websites that are queried:

• Amazon
• Ebay
• Auto Trader
• Epinions
• Facebook
• Linkedin.com
• Living Social
• Realtor
• Reddit
• Twitter
• USA Today
• Verdict Search

See the Source Information page for additional information.  
 

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 Pricing

The cost to run a Social Media Locator search is $8. There is no additional cost to link from the results list to the web and social media sites.

The SmartLinx® Comprehensive Person Report provides a link to the Social Media Locator report on the results screen. Clicking on this link incurs a $8 charge. You can click on this link again for 24 hours and even though the Out of Plan message appears, you do not incur any additional charges if you click on the same link within 24 hours. This is only applicable within the Comprehensive Report. 
 

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