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​Why Proxies for Twitter Are Essential

Enabling proxies to use Twitter might not immediately spring to mind as necessary; however, if you peel back the veneer that represents the public face of Twitter, a different picture emerges. On more careful inspection, you will realize that not only is using proxies with Twitter a good idea, but that by not utilizing them, you limit the enormous benefits that Twitter can provide your business and, on an individual basis, open yourself up to risks.

The below article will examine the main reasons for using proxies with Twitter, both as an individual and on a business level. It will look at why proxies provide the most secure and efficient way of protecting yourself before exploring which proxies are the correct type to have for common business and personal use cases. 

Understanding Twitter

Twitter is one of the most established and well known of the major social media services. It offers you a platform to spread your voice, and for many people, it is often the go-to source for breaking news. Compared to its user base (much smaller than many of the other main services), it exerts an oversized influence on everything from politics to the latest trends. The potential that Twitter offers means that it is a platform you need to be on at both an individual and a business level. 

On the surface, what might seem like a benign free service is actually a business that exists to generate the maximum amount of revenue. This revenue generation is achieved by leveraging the data users provide in order to supply services such as advertising and direct marketing. 

Rules to Suit Twitter, Not Its Users Strict rules are placed around accounts, with the reach of your message carefully controlled and limited to force you to invest in their services. Worse, the data they have gathered is tightly guarded and often, unknowingly to the user, sold to third parties.   

Beyond this, it is a platform that, in some areas, is roamed by bad actors who masquerade themselves as virtuous, peddling misinformation and looking to take down those who dare to disagree. 

Why Do Proxies Help With Twitter?

Other than for just occasional visits, engaging on Twitter's platform clearly presents some risks. Fortunately, using Twitter proxies wisely can completely change the landscape, as they can assist you in avoiding dangers and fully leveraging it as a data source. Here is a list of some of the ways proxies can be used:

  • Prevent Twitter from gathering data on you
  • Prevent Governments agencies from observing your use 
  • Stop pressure groups hounding you for your opinions
  • Circumvent government or local access bans on the service
  • Data gathering - allows you to scrape data from Twitter 
  • Automating posting or the account creation process
  • Let you to create multiple Ad accounts
  • Avoid your home or business IP address being banned

How do Twitter proxies Work - Turning the Tables

Using proxies to access Twitter will help disguise your identity, provide secret passageways, and allow you to utilize the platform without being recognized. They work by masking your originating IP address by diverting the traffic through a server that changes the public-facing IP of the traffic you send to Twitter. The same works in reverse, and any responses that Twitter sends back go to the proxy server before being redirected back to you.  

The benefit of this is that Twitter only interacts with the proxy's IP and has no idea where the originating traffic is coming from. Twitter only sees the proxy and never you. 

What Type of Proxies Should Be Used for Accessing Twitter

Broadly speaking, proxies are divided into two main categories: data center and residential. Each class can itself be subdivided into various types, such as shared, dedicated, and rotating.

Data Center Proxies vs. Residential Proxies for Twitter

The difference between the two types of proxies is established in the distribution of IP addresses. Specific IP address blocks are made available for data centers, while different IP address blocks are attributed to internet service providers who provide residential broadband services to homes and businesses. 

The information on which blocks are attributed to which service is freely available, so if you are using data center IPs to access in a uniform or patterned way, Twitter will know and block access if they feel there is suspicious IP address use. If you use rotating residential proxies, it is almost impossible to detect their use.

Shared Static Proxies

Shared proxies are a group of pooled proxies for shared use. Depending on how the proxies are set up, will determine how they can be used with Twitter. If used directly rather than in a rotated pool, you get a fixed number of static IP addresses that, depending on the provider, get switched out at the end of each month.

If used to circumvent college or government restrictions, they will work well for accessing Twitter. However, for account creation and data scraping, you need to be aware that other people are sharing these same IPs and that a limited number can reveal patterns. 

Dedicated Static Proxies

Dedicated static proxies work the same way as shared static proxies, expect you to have greater protection as the sole user. Again, you must have a considerable number of proxies if your intended use is for account creation and data scraping, as Twitter will see the same IPs appearing time and again. 

Rotating Proxies

Rotating proxies offer the most effective solution and are almost undetectable. You are provided an IP address to a server pool of thousands of IPs. At the server pool, an IP address ascribed to your traffic being served to Twitter is changed every few minutes, almost totally eliminating any usage footprint. 

A rotating residential proxy provider can set the proxy pools to be data center-based, residential (which also allows geo-targeting), or mobile proxies. In terms of using them with Twitter, residential and mobile proxies should be the only ones you consider.

Public Proxies

You may also come across public proxies. These are proxies made freely available by their providers across the web. While they are numerous and accessible, the good news tends to stop there. Finding them can be time-consuming and often requires special software; once you find them, their lifespan is fleeting. Despite their allure, this generally makes public proxies inefficient in utilizing Twitter unless you have an extremely effective source process.  

Which Proxies are the Right Proxies to Use with Twitter

Deciding which proxies you should use when accessing Twitter will largely depend on your intended use case. As an individual looking to practice free speech and protect their anonymity, shared, dedicated, or rotating residential proxies are all suitable. 

Residential rotating proxies are the best, safest, and most efficient option for Twitter if your intended use is for business or marketing and will involve heavy posting, scraping, and multiple account creation. 

The Takeaway

There are strong reasons as to why you should, and probably ought to, use proxies to access Twitter. As an individual, in today's world, where identity theft is so easy and Twitter archeologists roam, trying to flag your past opinions to bring you down, having some form of protection is essential. Using proxies is an inexpensive and effective way of protecting yourself. They let you assume a cloak of anonymity that protects you and allows your voice to be heard. 

From a business perspective, proxies for Twitter help rebalance the power dynamic between your business and the platform. It is no longer just Twitter that benefits from your data. Proxies allow you to automate processes, gather data, and disseminate your marketing message to a broader audience than Twitter would conventionally allow.

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