Not 500 users. 500 Twitter accounts managed by TA. You make my point. I can't see that anyone would need 500 accounts following the same people. As the multithread Follow module is presently configured, that's what happens. Unless we go through and manually assign different URLs to each individual (or group) of accounts managed by TA.
I'm in agreement if it were one or two Twitter accounts adding followers from a list. That's not the case, as the "set URL" function specifies one URL for the entire list of accounts in the follow module. Sub-groups can be selected and assigned different URLs, but that still results in mass redundancy. The result -- 100+ accounts are adding friends from the same URL and those friends are identical, since TA's follow module starts and ends adding at the same data point for all accounts.
Worse, the multithread feature means that identical friends are being added in concurrent and not sequential operations: the same friends from the same list/URL are being added to 100+ accounts loaded in the Follow module.
No. The way the Follow module works, it's a bit cumbersome to assign multiple TA accounts to follow multiple Twitter niche accounts. As tdog1 suggested, the ability to load a list of URLs that are assigned to the account list at random is one workaround (resulting in a variety of niche URLs assigned to the TA account list).
I'm not sure how that would be easier to trace than 100+ accounts adding identical friends from the identical list of followers, beginning with follower #01 and ending with follower #150. The end result is you have 100-1000 TA accounts following a random number of list Twitterers from that same pool of 150 friends. I would think that results in a more readily identifiable pattern.
If your research has shown randomizing pages culled from might set off alarms, maybe tdog's suggestion is best.
Manually assigning isn't all that bad...I export the task then edit it in excel. Pretty easy to vary the urls using a list of words. I forget the format, but it's something like this
user987|*****|
user9s7|*****|
user957|*****|
user917|*****|
then paste whatever url fragment in the next column
user987|*****|h**p://twitter.com/#search?q=
user9s7|*****|h**p://twitter.com/#search?q=
user957|*****|h**p://twitter.com/#search?q=
user917|*****|h**p://twitter.com/#search?q=
then paste a list of keywords in the next column
user987|*****|h**p://twitter.com/#search?q=Yankees
user9s7|*****|h**p://twitter.com/#search?q=Jets
user957|*****|h**p://twitter.com/#search?q=Giants
user917|*****|h**p://twitter.com/#search?q=Mets
then either paste it back into the txt file and use find and replace to eliminate tab spaces or use excels concatenate function to put them together.
for followers urls a little more work but same idea
Add column of h**p://twitter.com/ then column of keywords then column /followers
user987|*****|h**p://twitter.com/Yankees/followers
user9s7|*****|h**p://twitter.com/Giants/followers
user957|*****|h**p://twitter.com/Mets/followers
user917|*****|h**p://twitter.com/Jets/followers
Might be nice to automate, but when I'm running it on a couple hundred accounts it's not that big a deal for something that will run for days and days.
