### Explanation Modern mobile applications and social platforms often support multiple accounts or profiles, so the common ownership can be revealed by a few techniques: 1. Activity Tracking: Users who operate several accounts often check them one after the other, leading to recognizable trends in their online presence and the timestamps of their activities. 2. Consistent Visual Elements: Many users tend to use the same or slightly altered profile images, banners, or other graphical components across their accounts, which can help link profiles that might otherwise appear unrelated. 3. Rapid Account Switching: Frequent toggling between accounts, particularly on mobile devices, can generate evidence in the form of successive login records or status updates that happen in quick succession. 4. Patterns Across Different Platforms: Individuals with multiple accounts on various platforms may unintentionally establish similar activity patterns, allowing for the potential linking of accounts across different services. ### Examples {{some links to articles, videos, etc}} ### Types - behavioural ### See also - [[SOWEL-10. Exposing Online Status]] - [[SOWEL-5. Exposing The Fact Of Activity]] - [[SOWEL-2. Producing Social Graph]] ### Typical techniques - [[SOTL-2.1. Search For Alternative Account On The Same Platform]] - [[SOTL-5.4. Study Time Of Posts And Actions]] - [[SOTL-5.5. Study Activity At The Same Time]]