so there is 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour and 24 hours a day
so 60 * 60 * 24 = 86,400
you want to scrape every 5 seconds so 86,400 / 5 = 1728 times per day
with 100 ips (accounts) that is 17 times a day. Does that sound ok to you? it's less than 1 an hour. Yes that is fine.
How many times can one 1 IP scrape a profile feed? I don't know, but it's just a case of thinking about it and thinking whether twitter will mind / figure out what you are doing.
1000 times a day? Probably too much
100 times a day, every 15 minutes, yeah should be ok.
In this game, there are *NO* guarantees, only assumptions and results of tests.
Sometimes I say "you shouldn't do this" and someone tells me "I have been doing more than that for years without issues". Great, keep doing it, run a test, see what works and keep going until it doesn't. The botting game is fluid, not static, sometimes things work, sometimes they stop working and sometimes they start working again. We have to flow with the changes and results we see from testing
Regards,
Martin