Ways to avoid frequent Twitter account locks?

[zlatanx]

Hi,

I'm getting my Twitter accounts locked every 2-3 days now. Perhaps hard to avoid locks at all, but captchas are getting too hard, need to try and minimize it. What anti-detection patterns pay off best? Would love to hear what others think.

My situation: 20 one year old manually created Twitter accounts. Run on same machine, on own Chrome instances with different proxy locations. Using Windscribe browser extension (all privacy options enabled) + Canvas Fingerprint Defender browser extension. Botting with own developed browser extension.

Own bot characteristics: Twitter actions (follow + like + retweet + comment + post) done with simulated mouse clicks and text entry with chrome.debugger to make mouse/input events isTrusted property be true. Mouse clicks have real-ish random delay between MouseDown and MouseUp events. Click coordinates are random within clickable element. Random delays between actions.

Botting scenarios: I bot Alphabot.app and other raffles where each raffle require 1-3 follows, 1-3 like + retweets. Also Twitter raids where one tweet is liked + retweeted + commented. Typically do 4 bot accounts at once, wait 2-10 minutes, do next 4, etc.

This have worked well for 6 months. Last couple months I have gotten more frequent, and more hard to solve captchas.

I am well aware that my bots behaviour is easy to detect as bots. But not sure where to best put time into making them appear less botish. If possible at all? Could spend 40 hours on one thing and it would make little effect.

Anyone have own experience on how to combat this best?

Here an incomplete list I can think of myself:

1. Randomize order of Twitter actions (easy, will do that right away).
2. Put in random actions so all bot accounts do not have 100% same actions done.
3. Put in random tweets (no own tweets done previusly).
4. Manually unfollow random accounts on each bot account?
5. Try to get (more) followers on each account?
6. Better proxies? Not sure how to do that with Chrome instances.

I think that'll do for a long first post.

 

[LilMosey]

I'm getting my Twitter accounts locked every 2-3 days now.

How many actions do you do per day per account?
After unlocking the account, do you continue with actions straightaway or do you wait couple of days and then continue? (cooldown)

 

[zlatanx]

In my opinion , ensure your account information is accurate,enable two factor authentication, avoid aggressive following/unfollowing,following twitter's guidelines may will reduse the risk of account lock.

2FA I might need to try. What do you mean with "account information is accurate"?

All acouunts have gmail or outlook email. Bio filled in. Unique avatar. Country set to according to proxy. I guess that is what you mena with accurate account info?

How many actions do you do per day per account?
After unlocking the account, do you continue with actions straightaway or do you wait couple of days and then continue? (cooldown)

I do quite many actions per day. 5-10 alphabot raffles -> 15-30 follows, 10-20 retweets + likes.

No cooldown. Usually too good opportunities to miss so continue actions straightaway.

Also, all accounts usually get locked at same time. Which makes me think they get detected because they do exactly the same actions.

 

[BiggusD1ckus]

using a bot might simplify your life, sucocial & twitterdub come to mind. because from what your say some pattern is clearly being detected

 

[zlatanx]

using a bot might simplify your life, sucocial & twitterdub come to mind. because from what your say some pattern is clearly being detected

Need to handle crypto wallets + multiple nft raffle provider accounts (+ need to use them manually at times when minting won raffles) for each botted account too. Those are easy to manage with 20 chrome instances. Can't really fit this scenario easily with those twitter bots.

Would like to pick lower hanging fruit at first and see if things improve. But not sure what those lower hanging fruits are.

To begin with, I never post any tweets, would that help? Can spend much time on making chrome bot try to mimic human tweet behaviour, but will that matter or is much time spent in waste?

Is time better spent on making bots not do the exact same actions, adding random actions every here and there?

Figure I am in minority here doing small ball numbers only botting 20 accounts. But still think there is much value in getting to know as many aspects as possible in how to avoid bot detection.

Maybe not possible trying to avoid detection after being detected couple times already, and no use in trying out small efforts getting better to avoid detection?

 

[BiggusD1ckus]

Need to handle crypto wallets + multiple nft raffle provider accounts (+ need to use them manually at times when minting won raffles) for each botted account too. Those are easy to manage with 20 chrome instances. Can't really fit this scenario easily with those twitter bots.

Would like to pick lower hanging fruit at first and see if things improve. But not sure what those lower hanging fruits are.

To begin with, I never post any tweets, would that help? Can spend much time on making chrome bot try to mimic human tweet behaviour, but will that matter or is much time spent in waste?

Is time better spent on making bots not do the exact same actions, adding random actions every here and there?

FYI you can use account on bot and manually, need to use same proxy and chrome based antidetect browser

 

[blackbeans]

From what I've seen, having your bot operate in NORMAL USER hours helps a lot.

A normal user isn't following/liking/commenting 24 hours a day

Also a normal user has RANDOM breaks within the VARYING time ranges they are active

When it comes to comments, real users often have one minor TYPO when they comment

 

[zlatanx]

From what I've seen, having your bot operate in NORMAL USER hours helps a lot.

A normal user isn't following/liking/commenting 24 hours a day

Also a normal user has RANDOM breaks within the VARYING time ranges they are active

When it comes to comments, real users often have one minor TYPO when they comment

Minor typo is interesting! Can map neighbour keys on keyboard and create 0-2 typos in tweet with P % probability.

Any tips how to auto generate tweet content?

Added 2FA to 2 accounts, gonna manually do random actions (including unfollow) on 2 other, running rest as is. See if anything change.

 

[LilMosey]

I do quite many actions per day. 5-10 alphabot raffles -> 15-30 follows, 10-20 retweets + likes.

No cooldown. Usually too good opportunities to miss so continue actions straightaway.

Try and let the account sit for a day or two after you unlocked them and report back how it went.

 

[jess837]

This was happening to me with reddit, what I did was use 4G proxies and an anti-detection browser

 

[proxygo]

2FA I might need to try. What do you mean with "account information is accurate"?

All acouunts have gmail or outlook email. Bio filled in. Unique avatar. Country set to according to proxy. I guess that is what you mena with accurate account info?

I do quite many actions per day. 5-10 alphabot raffles -> 15-30 follows, 10-20 retweets + likes.

No cooldown. Usually too good opportunities to miss so continue actions straightaway.

Also, all accounts usually get locked at same time. Which makes me think they get detected because they do exactly the same actions.

Need to handle crypto wallets + multiple nft raffle provider accounts (+ need to use them manually at times when minting won raffles) for each botted account too. Those are easy to manage with 20 chrome instances. Can't really fit this scenario easily with those twitter bots.

Would like to pick lower hanging fruit at first and see if things improve. But not sure what those lower hanging fruits are.

To begin with, I never post any tweets, would that help? Can spend much time on making chrome bot try to mimic human tweet behaviour, but will that matter or is much time spent in waste?

Is time better spent on making bots not do the exact same actions, adding random actions every here and there?

Figure I am in minority here doing small ball numbers only botting 20 accounts. But still think there is much value in getting to know as many aspects as possible in how to avoid bot detection.

Maybe not possible trying to avoid detection after being detected couple times already, and no use in trying out small efforts getting better to avoid detection?

@zlatanx you can reply to multiple users in 1 post

 

[PHPInjected]

@zlatanx you can reply to multiple users in 1 post

2FA I might need to try. What do you mean with "account information is accurate"?

All acouunts have gmail or outlook email. Bio filled in. Unique avatar. Country set to according to proxy. I guess that is what you mena with accurate account info?


I do quite many actions per day. 5-10 alphabot raffles -> 15-30 follows, 10-20 retweets + likes.

No cooldown. Usually too good opportunities to miss so continue actions straightaway.

Also, all accounts usually get locked at same time. Which makes me think they get detected because they do exactly the same actions.

@zlatanx I merged 7 of your posts. Moving forward, please use the quote feature as outlined here: https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/how-to-create-a-post.1042191/

 

[VanessaW]

Instead of having all your bot accounts perform the exact same actions, mix it up a bit. Have some accounts follow different accounts, like different tweets, or retweet different content. This will make the actions less uniform across your accounts.

 

[zlatanx]

Instead of having all your bot accounts perform the exact same actions, mix it up a bit. Have some accounts follow different accounts, like different tweets, or retweet different content. This will make the actions less uniform across your accounts.

Problem is all accounts are entering Alphabot raffles that require the same actions. Probably need to add extra activity apart from these raffles, actions that are different for each account. But not sure if that will help.

 

[Jamesjake00121]

Instead of having all your bot accounts perform the exact same actions, mix it up a bit. Have some accounts follow different accounts, like different tweets, or retweet different content. This will make the actions less uniform across your accounts.

Things like these are so basic but so easy to forget...

 

[RemoteSpace]

I suggest you randomly unfollow some of the accounts you follow while trying to gain more followers to simulate normal user activity. Make sure these actions match real user behavior. Or try to make each bot account look as real as possible. Add more profile information, upload real photos, and if possible, make it more like real user behavior.

 

[kalpana007]

Instead of having all your bot accounts perform the exact same actions, mix it up a bit. Have some accounts follow different accounts, like different tweets, or retweet different content. This will make the actions less uniform across your accounts.

This will keep accounts safe for sure. Most of the accounts get linked because they follow same pattern.