Gist: Social Media Aggregator Creates Dossiers of Your Comrades

Gist is a neat social media aggregating tool that automatically gathers all kinds of information on your email contacts, friends, followers, and groupies in the scattered social media salons and cocktail parties.

Here are the accounts Gist will comb to create Stasi-like dossiers on your comrades. They collect information on folks using the usual informants– Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, as well as Gmail and Outlook.

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Here’s a snapshot of information gathered on a Twitter spy mission:

Here’s a quick peek at the Gist Dashboard. Gist also pulls the attachments and links from your email so you can easily search them. It also keeps your events handy.

Search a person in your Gist files and you get, among other things:

correspondence with that person
contact information, web sites
shared contacts
their tweets and blog posts
Google search results and any news about them
you can also add more information about the person and become the J. Edgar Hoover SM guru

Your social media data is stored on Gist’s “secure, private server requiring your credentials for storage and retrieval.” If there comes a time to end your voyuerism, you can delete all your data and it will be wiped clean from their servers.

Gist is similar to Xobni and Spokeo but may cover more ground in its aggregation. Kinda spooky. But just right for Halloween.