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# Social profile check: confirm a handle is real and active

Check whether a social handle exists, and see the headline numbers on that profile. Use it when you are vetting an influencer, screening a lead's social presence or cleaning a list of handles.

## What it tells you

- Whether a live profile exists for that handle on that platform.
- The display name behind the handle.
- How many followers it has, and how many accounts it follows.
- Whether the account shows a verified badge, and whether it is private.
- How many posts or videos it has published, and whether it is set up as a business account.
- The bio text on the profile, plus an engagement rate where one is available.

## What you need to provide

- The platform and the handle, with or without the @. Supported platforms are Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, Facebook, Threads, Twitch, Snapchat, Bluesky and Truth Social.
- Or, instead of those two, a full profile URL on any supported platform.

## What it costs

10 credits per lookup. This one is success-based: you are charged 0 credits when no live profile is found. Live per-product costs are shown on the Billing page in your dashboard.

## How to run it

- In the dashboard: Social Profile Check
- From your code: POST /v1/social-profile-check, then see the Developer Hub at app.1lookup.io/developer-hub.

## Good to know

- Results are point-in-time. Follower counts, bios and verified badges change on their own, so what you get back can differ from what the profile shows later.
- It covers the ten platforms listed above. A handle on any other service will not resolve here.
- Some fields come back empty. Engagement rate in particular is not present for every profile.
- A private account can still be confirmed as existing, and it is flagged as private in the result.
- This returns public profile data about real people and brands. Use it for legitimate business purposes only.