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People reuse handles. One handle checked against 71 platforms tends to find the accounts somebody forgot they had.

A matching handle is not proof of a matching person. Common handles get registered by different people on different sites. The report shows what it found and where; deciding that two accounts are the same person is a judgement you make from the profile content, not something a name match settles.

What comes back

A list of platforms where that handle is taken, each with a link to the public profile so you can look at it yourself, plus the ones where it is free. A handle that is free almost everywhere is itself informative: it means the account you are looking at is not part of a pattern.

Where a platform exposes a join date, a display name or an avatar publicly, those appear too, and the timeline orders the accounts by when they were created.

Where it looks

Seventy-one platforms, weighted towards the places where handles are actually reused.

Social and messaging. Instagram, TikTok, Twitch, Pinterest, Snapchat, Telegram, Bluesky, Linktree.

Developer and technical. GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Docker Hub, Dev.to, CodePen, Hashnode, Kaggle, Hacker News, Keybase.

Creative and commerce. Behance, Dribbble, Etsy, Fiverr, Flickr, Bandcamp, SoundCloud, Mixcloud, itch.io, Buy Me a Coffee, Cash App.

Gaming, reading and the rest. Steam, Chess.com, Duolingo, Goodreads, Letterboxd, Disqus, HubPages, and around thirty more, plus a public-mentions sweep for the handle itself.

What it will not tell you

  • Whether the same person owns all of them. See the note at the top.
  • Anything behind a private or locked account.
  • Deleted accounts. A handle freed by a deletion reads as available.
  • Variations you did not ask for. Searching jdoe does not search j_doe or jdoe92. If you suspect a pattern, run the variants; each is its own lookup.

Common questions

Does the platform know I checked?

No. Each check asks a public page or a public API the same way a visitor would. No login is attempted and no notification is generated.

Why does a profile link 404 when the report says the handle is taken?

Some platforms register a handle without publishing a page for it, and some hide profiles from signed-out visitors. The report distinguishes taken from publicly visible, and the link is only there for the second.

Can I search a display name instead of a handle?

Use the name lookup for that. This module matches exact handles; a display name with a space in it is a different kind of search.

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