Username intelligence
This module checks whether an account with a given handle exists on platforms that publish profiles openly. What it will not do is conclude that the same person holds them, handle reuse is common, and treating it as identity is how OSINT tools produce confident, wrong answers about real people.
Example: torvalds
What this module collects
- Account existence across documented public platforms
- Public profile URL for each hit
- Public display name and description where the platform serves it unauthenticated
- Account creation date where published
- Public repository and project metadata from GitHub
- An explicit list of platforms that could not be checked, and why
What this module will not do
These limits are deliberate. Each one is a place where a tool could produce a confident-looking answer that is not supported by public evidence.
Accounts are never merged into a person
Each hit is recorded against the platform account itself. The graph edge states in plain language that handle reuse does not establish that one person holds these accounts.
No authentication, no CAPTCHA solving, no anti-bot evasion
Platforms that require signing in or defeating a challenge to view a profile are excluded by policy and listed in the results, so the gap is visible rather than silent.
A block is never reported as 'not found'
When a platform returns a 403, a rate limit or a challenge, the result is recorded as undetermined. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.