> [!info] > Input: [[Social Media Account|account]] > Output: [[Date of registration|registration date]], [[Social Media Activity|patterns of activity]] > > Types: [[Technical Weakness|technical]] > Weakness: [[SOWEL-1. Having and Filling Account]] ### Explanation Account creation date could be useful to verify identity of a person and check is it a fake (too fresh), is it too old for our investigation or not. Also, registration of several accounts in the same time could correlate with some events and corresponding changing of communications patterns (e.g. move to Telegram to coordinate protests). Thus, using account creation date, you can identify networks of accounts. ### Examples - [Facebook Analysis: Pro-Indonesian Government Propaganda Bots Use Facebook Ads To Target Europe (Benjamin Strick)](https://medium.com/@bendobrown/facebook-analysis-pro-indonesian-government-propaganda-bots-use-facebook-ads-to-target-europe-ccb8a02bc5f9) - comparison of page transparency data of Facebook pages revealed recent registration date and similar pattern of managing ![[papua.png]] ### Tools - Facebook page transparency - [Telegram RegDateBot](https://tgdev.io/bot/regdatebot) - [Discord Snowflake To Timestamp](https://snowsta.mp/) - extracts registration date from an ID of Discord account ### See also - {{internal links to similar techniques}}