SKILL / Identity
Plans: Pro & AgencyExtended Social Presence
Explore a wider range of public social and community sources for additional identity clues and profile candidates.
Read the step-by-step user guideExtended Social Presence is the Nexus Skill for the second pass on a person or handle: once the obvious profiles are known, where else does this subject appear in public? Nexus extends discovery to community platforms, forums, niche networks and other public social sources that a first search often misses, and returns additional profile candidates and identity clues, each linked to its source so the investigator can judge how much weight it deserves.
What you get
A wider public-presence assessment with additional profile candidates and identity clues, each linked to evidence.
Using Extended Social Presence in an investigation
The output is an extended public-presence assessment rather than a raw list of links. Each additional candidate is linked to its source and marked as a supported association or a possible match, and conflicting details are recorded rather than resolved silently. Identity clues — a repeated biography line, a location mentioned in several places, a linked website — are recorded with the evidence they came from, and Nexus notes where a source produced nothing usable.
Extended Social Presence fits naturally after Public Profile Discovery and before Public Social-Profile Enrichment. New handles it surfaces can be fed into Public Profile Discovery or Breach Exposure Search, and any profile the investigator accepts can be added to the relationship graph beside the subject. Because everything stays inside the case, the extended search becomes part of the documented trail rather than a set of browser tabs, and the final brief or PDF report can cite each additional profile with its evidence.
Example objectives
Run the Skill directly, or describe the objective in your own words — these are the kinds of questions it is built to answer.
Ask Nexus
“Beyond the main networks, where else does the handle north_harbor_dev appear publicly, and do those accounts share any identifying details?”
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“Look for community and forum profiles that could belong to the subject in this case and flag which ones conflict with what the case already holds.”
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“Are there smaller platforms where this person maintains a public presence under a different alias?”
How Extended Social Presence fits the investigation
A Skill is one move inside a case. The findings stay in the case file, where the evidence behind them can be checked, graphed and reported.
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Choose or describe
Pick the Skill from the Skill Library, or describe the objective in your own words and let Nexus work out which Skills fit the question.
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Review the evidence
Open the evidence record behind any finding and read the original public source before you rely on what it says.
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Add to the case graph
Promote the people, organizations and identifiers you accept into the case relationship graph, straight from their evidence records.
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Brief and report
Turn the case into a BLUF situation brief and, on Pro and Agency, into a structured PDF report with chain of custody.
Evidence before conclusions
What Extended Social Presence cannot establish
Nexus keeps supported findings, possible matches, contradictions and information gaps apart instead of blending them into one narrative. These are the boundaries Extended Social Presence states up front.
- Private, deleted or access-controlled accounts are outside a public-source search and will not appear in the results.
- A profile on a niche platform that matches a name or handle is a lead, not an identification, until other details corroborate it.
- Coverage differs between platforms, so an empty result for one source does not mean the subject has no presence there.
Best for
Teams that reach for Extended Social Presence most often.
Related OSINT concepts
The vocabulary this Skill works in, defined in the glossary.
Related Skills
Skills investigators commonly run next, in the same case.
Frequently asked questions
How is Extended Social Presence different from Public Profile Discovery?
Extended Social Presence goes wider than Public Profile Discovery. Public Profile Discovery finds the profiles most likely attributed to a person or username and is included in every plan. Extended Social Presence then looks across a broader range of public social and community sources — forums, niche networks and specialist communities — to find additional candidates and identity clues. Run the two in sequence and carry both results into the same case graph.
What counts as an identity clue in Extended Social Presence?
An identity clue in Extended Social Presence is a public detail that could connect two profiles or a profile to the subject: a biography line repeated across accounts, a consistent location or employer mention, a linked website or a cross-posted handle. Nexus records each clue with the evidence it came from and states how much support it provides. A clue is a reason to look closer, not a conclusion on its own.
Which Nexus plan includes Extended Social Presence?
Extended Social Presence is included on the Nexus Pro and Agency plans, alongside Public Profile Discovery for the first-pass profile search. Pro at €59 per month opens 43 of the 47 investigative Skills, including the full Identity and Public Presence set; Agency at €89 per month adds the four Agency-only Skills and end-to-end encrypted investigation notes.
Can Extended Social Presence find private or deleted accounts?
Extended Social Presence cannot find private or deleted accounts because it works only with public sources. Access-controlled accounts are equally outside its reach, and Nexus does not attempt to log in, bypass restrictions or recover removed content. When a source returns nothing usable, the result records that as an information gap rather than as evidence that the subject has no account there. Investigators should treat those gaps as open questions for other lawful methods.