Getwit as an API-based Acquisition Tool for Twitter

Twitter usage until 2022 is very high, making Twitter data very fast growing. The data contains information related to users and user activities through each feature on Twitter. The data can be used as one of the pieces of evidence to identify a person. Some features on Twitter cannot be obtained using forensic tools due to the limited scope of these tools. Research in data acquisition on the server-side shows that API can be used to support the acquisition process. Therefore, this study uses the acquisition method by utilizing the API. The results of this study provide evidence on how the Twitter API can assist digital investigators in collecting Twitter data. This API is used in our application called Getwit to perform automatic collection. As a result, Getwit is able to obtain user data and calculate its hash value which is important in digital investigations of Twitter-related incidents.