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Definitely interested, can I get a discount code? If I'm going to be running 5 accounts + will I need to buy proxies and do you offer them?
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I've had Twitter edition up and running for a few days just populating the tweets and favorites, and it's running smoothly across 50 accounts. Looking to get deeper into it over next couple days, but I have a few q's.
1) It populated the proxies per acct for me (I entered into proxy manager). If a proxy gets banned, or I switch providers, do I just swap out in proxy manager? If so, does it know to only replace that one for each acct using that one? If I switch all, does it keep the ones that were together still together on the new proxy provided?
2) When I use the wizard to create a new set of tasks, I have option to copy to all, or replace all others... but what if I just want to replace some? Is there a way to group profiles somehow so that these 10 get this setup, those 10 get that setup, etc? I'm not seeing a way to do that yet. Or... can I do this by having them in separate projects? These 10 are running in this project, those 10 in that project, etc? If so, can I run multiple projects simultaneously? Would that require multiple instances?
3) Not quite clear if I need to use the at symbol, or something when setup to grab all followers of a particular user. I think I see where to do it, but not quite clear.
4) What is the scrape limit for followers of a particular user? Some of my competitors have millions of followers. If it is specifically limited, can we use another tool to scrape more users, and import the list, or import it in broken up chunks?
Great tool, btw, and I appreciate the answers I've gotten so far... just in the "wrapping my head around it" phase. Think I might be ready to add IG in a couple weeks once I've got this down inside and out.
There may be existing terminology for this. Not sure.
I've come to the conclusion that I want to followback everyone who follows me, no sense losing anyone if I don't have to since they might retweet something in the future, etc. Unfortunately, due to ratios, taking this approach means I will need to do some fake followers.
So this brings up the following question: Is there some way to follow back everyone who follows me EXCEPT for all those fakes? Now, I know FL can't differentiate, but can I, for instance have all the fakes delivered on Monday, then Followback recent followers on Friday, but only looking back three days...
... or look at the numbers and see that after fakes were delivered, I had 2700 followers, and a few days later I have 3000, so tell it to only scrape the most recent 300? I understand that's not exact, but it's close enough, and would avoid me accidentally following 2700 bogus followers.
Definitely interested, can I get a discount code? If I'm going to be running 5 accounts + will I need to buy proxies and do you offer them?
Is the number of threads I should enable just a function of the processing power of the computer, or of the number of proxies?
Trying to figure out how many threads I should have enabled for 2.7Ghz dual core machine with 3Gb of ram using 10 proxies to run 50 accounts... accounts I plan on keeping as long as possible.
OK, thx. I understand, of course, that any bot has no way of differentiating between fake followers and real ones, but blacklisting them for followback would mean searching through the feed and hand typing thousands of names... for EACH of the 50 accounts I've got going. All in all just one round of that would be over a hundred thousand hand typed names and would take me months to do.
That's why I'm asking if there is some way to approximate. For instance, if I know accounts have accumulated ROUGHLY 100 new followers each since fakes were added, can I tell it to only scrape the last 100 followers for each account. It won't be perfect, but it will avoid following almost all of the fakes and will follow back almost all of the new real followers. By keeping that same limit on going forward, it will never scrape back far enough to follow them in the future. Better yet would be simple time limit... like only scrape users for followback who have followed in last 3 days. If it's older than that, leave it alone. That's a good permanent solution, and if I ever had to add more fakes later, all I would have to do is turn followback off until 3 days after fakes were done populating.
Otherwise, to avoid following fakes, I'd have to just not follow back at all which would lose me tons of followers in the long run.
I think FL might already have something like this built in (scrape limit?) Just not sure what to call it or where exactly to find it when dealing with me following back those who have followed me that I do not yet follow.
used FL for 6 month and it can never follow more then 400 per day and if it follow that number it can't follow for that number more than 2 days
so FL can't follow 900 per day
i set it to just follow and unfollow no other task at all i scraped 100k before starting and set it to follow between 700-800
Just read through the help section, and most of it is sinking in, but looking to clarify a couple things.
First, I'm not quite clear how to follow back those who follow me. I've got the retreive existing followers and followings enabled, but not quite clear how the list of followers gets plugged into the list to follow.
Second, does FL handle nested spintax? i.e.
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Also, I've noticed in organic experiments that I get MUCH better followback if I am posting videos ass opposed to just text or even images. Specifically for what I do, I would like to do something like search for tweets containing a certain word that contain videos (either TW native videos or Youtube... just like TW filters for when I ask it to filter for vids). I know this filtering already exists in Twitter since I can sort results to show only those with videos. I don't see how to do this in FL, though.
thx
I am about to purchase but is there a promo code for the Twitter + Instagram Edition? Thanks.
If you want to follow users that follow back:
1. Enable "Scrape User" and "Follow"
2. Add a query, select query type as "User's Follower" and type your username in the query box.
Thx for response.
If I understand correctly... this means if I'm running 100 accounts, I'd have to open each one individually and make sure the user name matches and is typed correctly... then whenever I replace the tasks by copying from one wizard to other users... it would erase all of them and replace them all with the user it's copying from... which would mean I would either need to then reopen all 100 accounts and match them all up again, or all 100 of my accounts would now suddenly follow the followers of the first account.
I'm hoping I'm misunderstanding something, because that's clearly not how it should work. Most people using a tool like this would want to automatically follow anyone following them, and the process outlined above is very difficult to set up, and nearly guaranteed to cause a variety of problems for anyone using it on many accounts.
Am I misunderstanding? Is there a simple way to have each account follow it's own followers across mass accounts? I've got 1000's of followers recently just from doing aging activities with the accounts (mass retweets and favorites)... but I'm likely to lose them all soon if don't follow back, and I am changing tasks and copying to other users frequently which would mean (unless I'm misunderstanding something) I'd have to go into each user and correctly type it's name... hundreds of times a day. If I am correct, wouldn't it be very simple and straight-forward to program a button that says "follow own followers"? Doesn't nearly everyone want to do this anyway? Otherwise, what's the point of all the favorites and retweets? If people follow me, and then unfollow because I don't follow back (because it was too cumbersome to do so with mass accounts), what's the point?
As for the spintax, I see that it has basic support which is very useful, but question is whether it supports nested spintax (most bots don't)
So, like {{a|b}|{c|d}}
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They all look great!
I would like the full edition (all editions)
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Ok, thx for response. Pleasant surprise to find that nested spintax is supported. Will test that out tonight.
As for following followers, here is my simple suggestion, then:
A simple option to follow those who follow you per account. Should be easy to program as each account already has a field populated with it's own username, so data is already on hand. On top of avoiding all the issues mentioned earlier, it has a host of other benefits.
Following your own followers is a unique activity. It should not follow the same rules as other user scraping activity. How I scrape for other users, and what sort of limitations I use (only use top result, etc) should not affect how I follow my own followers. That is a completely different thing done for a completely different reason. It's not fishing, it's loss prevention. If I don't follow back soon, I may lose them.
I just spent two hours typing them all in by hand, and I may well have missed something or mistyped something in the process... and they'll all be wiped out whenever I end up needing to copy data between accounts. Worse even... they'll all be following the followers of the original account who's settings got copied.
Simple follow my followers option fixes all these issues.
Not trying to be pushy, btw. I wouldn't even bother making such a suggestion to other devs, but FL is very close to doing everything I need (unlike others), and this one suggestion, I believe, would not only require minimal programming, but would be a feature most people looking to maximize followers would not only use, but would want ENABLED by default.
Thx again.
Hey I have a question about the instagram bot that I purchased. So I am interested in automating my photo shares. However I have some accounts that rely on user submitted content that I post. As in I have to @username for every post I make in order to give credit to the person who sent direct messaged me the photo. I am fine with exporting these photos by hand and everything, but the issue is when I am automating it. For example I want to post every 2 hours or so a specific photo with a specific caption. So I use the photo share wizard and instead of the photo folder I want to add the photos individually. So I right click new, put in the caption, and set an image to it. Now my question is does it keep going down the lines and posts the caption and set image in order or random? I don't want it to repost that same image ever again, does it go back to it and reposts? Also I don't want it to use the photo folder as the photos have to match up with the captions, do I set it to an empty folder? I hope this makes sense. Thanks!