Warming accounts without owning a single phone

Every warm-up guide on this board assumes a drawer full of handsets.

I have a laptop and twenty five accounts. No phones, no farm, no interest in acquiring either. What does the warm-up actually look like from a browser, and does it work, or is the honest answer that it doesn't and everyone's too polite to say so?

Browser only is fine honestly! I've never touched a phone for any of mine

It works, with one real constraint, and the constraint is not the phone.

The constraint is that some actions on some platforms are simply not available from the web client, and if your account never performs any of them it has a shape that no amount of scrolling fixes. Depends entirely which platform — on two of the big ones the web client can do essentially everything and browser-only warming is indistinguishable. On one of them the mobile-only actions are the ones the account is judged on, and there you'll hit a ceiling.

What I'd run for 25 accounts with a laptop:

1. Separate browser profile per account, separate proxy, and be strict about it — this is the part that actually matters and it's free. 2) Ten to fifteen minutes per account per day for the first two weeks, and do not distribute them evenly across the day, because nobody uses these things every four hours. Two clusters, one morning one evening, some days skipped. 3) Consume before you produce. Scroll, watch, follow a handful of large accounts nobody would question. First post no earlier than day 10.

The reason people buy phones isn't that browsers don't work. It's that 25 accounts at 12 minutes a day is five hours, and at some point you either automate it or you stop scaling.

Five hours a day. So the phone farm isn't hardware, it's a labour problem wearing a gadget.

The device question is the wrong end of it. What the platform sees is a fingerprint, and a browser can present a convincing one or a terrible one depending on how much attention you pay.

What gives people away isn't the absence of a phone. It's twenty five profiles with the same screen resolution, the same fonts, the same three extensions, the same canvas hash, all connecting from IPs in four countries with one timezone between them. That's a set. A phone farm with the same discipline problem produces the same set, on nicer hardware.

Randomise the things that are cheap to randomise and hold constant the things that would look insane changing — an account whose timezone moves every week is worse than one that never had a phone.

The five hour problem — actually this is why i stop doing 25 and do 8.

Eight account i can warm properly with real attention, and after two month they are worth more than 25 half warm account, because the 25 all die at the same time and the 8 do not. I know everybody want scale my friend but the warm up is the one place where doing less is doing more.

Also the cluster thing Marta say is important. My first accounts i warm at exactly 9am every day like a robot, and they all die in week three. Same setup, random time, they live.

so whats a good random. like plus minus an hour

More. Two, three hour, and some day nothing at all. Real person forget.

you asked whether it works and got three people telling you how to do it properly. it works. doing it properly is the expensive part

brutal but fair

Splitting the difference on the 8 vs 25 point, because I think it depends what the accounts are for.

If each account has to build an audience, paulofrz is right and it isn't close. If they exist to hold a position and do one job each, 25 lightly-warmed accounts with a good fingerprint setup will outlast 8 beautiful ones in my experience, because you're not asking any of them to do anything a review would look twice at.

What kills the 25 approach isn't the thin warm-up. It's people running them all through the same three actions on the same afternoon once they're live.

Ten accounts, not twenty five. Browser profiles, static IPs, and I skip days on purpose now.

Still no phones. Ask me in a month.