Marketing

Track public conversation without tripping platform defences

Collect public social data at volume from trusted addresses.

9.5M

mobile IPs

54

mobile countries

99.7%

mobile success rate

The problem

Social platforms have the most sophisticated automated-traffic detection on the web, and they apply it to unauthenticated read traffic as aggressively as to writes. Datacenter addresses are typically blocked outright; residential addresses get challenged within a few hundred requests.

Platform APIs, where they exist, are expensive, rate-limited and often exclude precisely the public data you need.

The solution

Mobile proxies carry the highest trust of any address type on social platforms, because the platforms' own traffic is overwhelmingly mobile and carrier-NAT addresses cannot be blocked without collateral damage.

Combining mobile exits for the hardest surfaces with residential for the rest keeps costs sane while maintaining collection continuity.

Mechanics

How proxies solve it

1

Carrier addresses are hard to block

Thousands of genuine users share each mobile IP, so per-address blocking is not a viable defence.

2

Match the platform's dominant client

Mobile exits align with the device profile the platform expects, reducing challenge rates.

3

Geo-segment the conversation

Trends, recommendations and visible content vary by country. Collect from each market separately.

4

Sticky sessions for paginated feeds

Cursor-based feeds break when the exit changes mid-scroll. Hold the session for the pagination run.

Workflow

How we would build it

  1. 1

    Stay on public surfaces

    Collect only what is visible without authentication. Our Acceptable Use Policy prohibits credential-based access to third-party accounts.

  2. 2

    Use mobile for the hard platforms

    Escalate to mobile where residential challenge rates exceed a few percent.

  3. 3

    Hold sessions across pagination

    Feed cursors are frequently bound to the session. Rotating mid-run loses your place.

  4. 4

    Throttle deliberately

    Human-plausible pacing outperforms maximum throughput on these targets, every time.

FAQ

Social media monitoring questions

No. Our Acceptable Use Policy prohibits accessing any content behind an authentication barrier you are not authorised to pass, and we terminate accounts that attempt it.
Carrier-grade NAT. Each mobile IP fronts thousands of genuine subscribers, so blocking it means blocking real users. Platforms weight that risk heavily and challenge mobile addresses far less.
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