Know the moment someone squats your brand handle.
AIDE scans 25+ platforms for handles that match, resemble or impersonate your brand — detecting exact squats, leet-substitution campaigns and authority-pattern imposters as they appear.
Why it matters
Handle squatting and impersonation scale fast across platforms.
Brand squatters register your handles across platforms within minutes of a product launch. Impersonation accounts deceive customers for months before being reported.
Handle squatters move fast
Squatters register your brand name across platforms minutes after launch — then sell it back or run impersonation scams against your customers.
Authority-pattern impersonation
Accounts using _official, _support and _verified patterns deceive customers who search for your brand on any platform.
Campaigns across 25+ networks
Without cross-platform coverage, a coordinated impersonation campaign running across 6 networks can operate for months undetected.
How it works
From candidate pool to per-platform findings.
AIDE builds a candidate pool from your brand name, trademarks and keywords, then runs similarity and pattern checks across each monitored platform.
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Brand candidate generation
AIDE generates candidates from your brand name, product names, trademarks and campaign keywords — each with their own candidate pool.
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Handle similarity scoring
Exact match (100), substring (65–90) and Levenshtein distance (0–99) scores are computed. Handles scoring 55+ pass to the finding pipeline.
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Impersonation pattern detection
Authority patterns (_official, _real, _verified), support patterns (_support, _help) and leet substitution (a→4, e→3) are checked on each candidate.
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Per-platform findings
Each flagged handle generates an independent finding with direct URL, similarity score, severity and impersonation type — per platform.
Check dimensions
Four layers of handle impersonation detection.
Every candidate handle is evaluated for similarity, impersonation patterns and cross-platform presence before a finding is generated.
Handle similarity analysis
Three-tier scoring: exact match (100), substring match (65–90), Levenshtein distance (0–99). Only handles scoring 55+ generate findings.
Impersonation pattern detection
Authority patterns (_official, _real, _verified), support patterns (_support, _help) and leet substitutions (a→4, e→3, o→0) are matched automatically.
25+ platform coverage
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, GitHub, Pinterest, Snapchat, Reddit, Bluesky, Threads and 13 more platforms monitored continuously.
Keyword-extended brand coverage
Product names, trademarks and campaign names each get their own candidate pool so impersonation tied to sub-brands is never missed.
Social security score
Similarity tier drives the penalty.
Your Social Security Score starts at 100. Each unresolved finding subtracts points based on the similarity tier of the flagged handle.
Score 85–100
−15 pts / finding
Score 70–84
−8 pts / finding
Score 55–69
−3 pts / finding
Who uses social media monitoring
Brand protection across every network.
From individual brand launches to enterprise trademark portfolios, AIDE keeps your social presence clean.
Web agencies
Protect client brands at launch and monitor handles during campaigns when squatting and impersonation risk spikes.
Managed service providers
Continuous handle monitoring across a managed client portfolio with per-platform findings routed to the right owner.
Enterprise brand teams
Brand protection across 25+ networks for organisations with high-value names, trademark portfolios and global campaigns.
Stop handle squatters before they reach your customers.
Monitor 25+ platforms for impersonation, brand squatting and authority-pattern fraud with AIDE.