If you’ve ever tried managing multiple accounts online, you’ve probably encountered the issue of your accounts getting flagged or banned. This is where account warm-up comes into play. If you're unfamiliar with the term, don’t worry! This guide will walk you through what account warm-up is, why it’s important, and how to do it properly with the right AI tools.
What is Account Warm-Up?
Account warm-up is the process of gradually building up the activity level of a new account to make it look more natural and trustworthy to the platform. Basically, this process imitates a real user case. Just an ordinary person who wants to manage social networks, communicate with friends, and talk about something important.
But social media accounts are too important to be used solely for personal gain. Successful brands and entrepreneurs understand this. Social media pages are an opportunity to advertise your brand, promote your product, attract customers, or simply build a valuable audience for subsequent resale. Good social media accounts mean significant sums of money.
The entrepreneurs' thinking has long been clear to social media creators. They actively block automated accounts and easily ban suspicious profiles. But if your account is warmed up properly, you have high chances to avoid such troubles. And the goal of warm-up is to make the account look like a legitimate user account, not a bot.
It’s important to warm up different types of accounts depending on your goals. You can use warmed-up accounts for marketing, advertising, affiliate marketing, account selling, and so on. Nextbrowser can work with all types of accounts and popular social networks:
- Personal accounts on platforms like Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X (Twitter), Snapchat, and Reddit should be properly heated to build engagement and credibility.
- For business purposes, profiles on eCommerce sites such as eBay, Etsy, Amazon are essential for selling and marketing.
- Warming up email accounts like Gmail, Outlook, ProtonMail helps improve their reputation and reduces the risk of being flagged or blocked.
It’s crucial to adhere to each platform’s rules and not exceed their constantly changing limits. Overdoing activity, breaking platform policies, or surpassing limits increases the risk of account suspension or bans. Therefore, regularly monitoring updates and adjusting your strategy accordingly is vital for maintaining account health.
Why is It Important?
Although the account warm-up process can be quite long and monotonous (if you do it manually), it should never be skipped. There are several compelling reasons for this:
- Long-term success: Accounts aren't created for just a few days. There's simply no point in that. For effective advertising or marketing, an account should last as long as possible and attract as many people as it can. Warming up creates the foundation for the longevity of your accounts and profiles.
- Building trust with the platform: The level of trust in your account determines the number of limits that can be placed on your actions. Regular users who perform normal, everyday actions have almost no limits. But if your account is suspected of questionable activity or automation, rest assured that your likes, views, and other actions will be limited.
- Avoiding account bans: The worst thing that can happen to your profile is being blocked. Then all the work and time invested will be lost, and you'll have to start over. That's why spending at least a few days on proper warm-up will actually save you a ton of time. Good accounts don't get blocked and continue to generate income.
How to Warm Up Accounts Safely with Nextbrowser
Interacting with the AI agent is convenient and intuitive. Creating a warm-up task requires just a few steps, which we'll explain below.
If you have any questions or want to learn more about Nextbrowser capabilities, please read our blog or contact our support team.
Step 1. Create an account
Go to the official Nextbrowser page and register. Press the “Try for free” button and provide some personal details.
The registration process doesn’t require any banking details. To test the functionality of the platform, you can use the free mode and decide on paying for the pro version later.
Step 2. Create or buy a social media account
Before Nextbrowser can start warming up your profile, you need to create one. Go to the chosen social media network and register there. You can use the warming-up feature for almost all networks: X (Twitter), Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, Instagram, and others.
You can also buy an account if you want. Just make sure you have chosen reliable and truwstworthy sellers.
Step 3. New profile
In your Nextbrowser workspace, create a new profile for a chosen social media network. With profiles, you won’t have to log into your social media accounts every time you launch a task. The AI Agent will remember the data and use it, so all tasks will start immediately after the launch. You need to provide your desired proxy, operating system, and browser type.
Let’s dive into details here:
- Name: that’s how your profile will be entitled. By using this name, you find it across other profiles.
- Operating system: choose the one that is suitable for your device. You have several options here: Windows, Mac OS, and Android.
- Browser type: there is one option here (Google Chrome).
- Proxy connection type: you can choose either residential or mobile one. You can use the default one if you don’t have specific preferences. Mobile and residential proxies are two types of proxy connections that differ in the IP address source and application. Mobile IP source is IP addresses provided by mobile operators (3G, 4G, 5G). Residential IP Source is real home IP addresses provided by ISPs.
- Country: After selecting a proxy type, choose a country. It’s important to understand what your target audience is. If your social media account is aimed at American citizens, then your priority is the “United States” option.
- Region and city: When your proxy is residential, you have to choose a region and city. It’s the same as with the country options: choose the one that suits your audience.
- ISP: Basically, that’s an internet service provider. An ISP is responsible for providing network connectivity services such as broadband internet, mobile phone service, and various additional services such as email and hosting. For each chosen country, select its own unique option.
Press “Continue” if you have filled in info. Then provide your login and password of social media account, so the AI Agent can enter your profile.
For example: If you want to warm up your Instagram account, then fill in your Instagram credentials.
You enter your credentials just once. You will see the profile window. Type in the login and password from your account. Click on the “Log in” button. After you have entered the profile, press “Save profile”. Now your account is ready for work!
While warming up your account, the Agent will enter your password and login automatically without bothering you. All personal data is protected, and even LLM doesn’t know your info.
Step 4. Write a prompt
Nextbrowser is perfect for both professionals and beginners. It understands natural language requests, so you don’t need coding skills to start working. You need to write a good prompt to start the task. A good prompt contains a complete description of the task, necessary facts and details, and links to relevant websites or resources. Ideally, you should break your task down into steps and describe each one separately. This step is crucial, as it determines how successfully your task will be completed.
The team has prepared three prompt templates that you can use with confidence. If your goals are similar to those described in the templates, simply copy and apply the text. If your aims are significantly different, use the templates as examples of good prompts or modify them to suit your needs.
You can also use the prompt enchancer. It can make your own text better and more suitable for the work with the AI Agent.
Your prompt may look like this:
“Instagram Engagement Specialist
Task Steps
1. Open Instagram – navigate to `https://instagram.com`.
2. Pause – wait 2-5 seconds after login to mimic natural behavior.
3. Find random accounts – go to the Explore page and scroll until at least 5 distinct, non‑followed profiles appear. 4. Follow 5 accounts – click “Follow” on the first 5 profiles, inserting a pause of 20-55 seconds between each follow.
5. Like 5 posts – for each newly‑followed account, open its most recent post and click “Like”, pausing 23-75 seconds after each like.
6. Write 3 relevant comments – select any 3 of the liked posts, compose a comment that relates to the post’s content (e.g., compliment the photo, ask a brief question), and post it, pausing 33-55 seconds between comments.
7. Log out (optional) – click the profile menu and select “Log out”.
Interaction Counts - Follows: 5 - Likes: 5 - Comments: 3
Expected Deliverables - List of followed usernames (e.g., `@user1`). - URLs of the 5 liked posts. - Exact text of the 3 comments posted, paired with the post URL they were added to.
Constraints / Requirements - Respect Instagram rate‑limit guidelines; keep pauses between actions within the 2-5‑second window. - Use a friendly, non‑spammy tone for comments (no promotional language). - Do not interact with the same account more than once in this session. - If any step fails (e.g., a profile is private), skip that profile and continue with the remaining steps.
Output Report Structure``` ## Instagram Engagement Report Followed Accounts - @username1 - @username2 - ... Liked Posts 1. URL: https://instagram.com/p/... 2. URL: https://instagram.com/p/... ... Comments Posted 1. Post URL: https://instagram.com/p/... Comment: "..." 2. Post URL: https://instagram.com/p/... Comment: "..." 3. Post URL: https://instagram.com/p/... Comment: "..." ``` Tone for Interactions - Follow actions: neutral, automated. - Likes: neutral. - Comments: courteous, genuine, and directly related to the post content.”
Step 5. Enjoy the process
Nextbrowser performs all actions in the cloud, so while it’s working, you can do other tasks. If the AI Agent needs your help, it will send a letter to your email (the platform will use the one you registered with). All actions will be saved in the final report, so you can track all interactions. If you have time, stay at your workspace and watch how Nextbrowser is working. It opens pages, clicks, comments, and sends messages in real time. On the right part of the page, you’ll see the description of the actions.
The AI Agent works smoothly and naturally. It searches for different posts that suit your criteria and likes them. Human-like behavior makes the AI Agent indistinguishable from real users.
All actions (likes, comments, and others) are performed at natural intervals. This allows you to bypass platform security systems and avoid being blocked. In the prompt, you can mention the need to take breaks during the workflow if you're concerned about being banned.
While working, Nextbrowser makes reports about its actions. You can read them during the process or send a structured table with a report by email upon completion. Collect all necessary reports, download them, and analyze them if necessary.
Step 6. Get the final report
The AI Agent will prepare a file with results and analytics. It can also include some recommendations and tips if you ask to do so. You can download the file and analyze it. Or just leave it there: it will be saved in the cloud anyway, so you can use it later.
Step 7. Create a schedule
For a warm-up process to be successful, you have to perform regular and repeated actions like posting, commenting, and watching videos over several weeks. To make this task easier, there is a scheduled automation.
Each task and action can be automated. You can create a plan according to which Nextbrowser will work. You can ask the AI Agent to perform certain actions in your accounts every day, every week, or every month. You can even specify the time when this action is mostly needed. In your workspace, find and click the “Schedule task” button.
Write the name of the task and check your prompt. Explain to the AI Agent about its task and aims.
Your prompt may look like this:
“Act as a human-like social media assistant.
Go to Instagram, browse the home feed naturally, and watch stories from several accounts.
Pause between actions, scroll slowly, open and watch stories fully, then return to the feed.
Behave like a real user to maintain normal account activity.”
If everything is correct, go on. Select a profile that you have previously created. It contains your account credentials, so you won’t have to log into your profiles again and again,
If you work with an Instagram account, then you need to choose an Instagram profile. Then go to the location settings. Select a country, region, city, and ISP.
And now it’s time for schedule settings. Your task can be performed: weekly, monthly, daily, one time, or in certain periods of time (for example, every 15 minutes). You can also specify weekdays or certain hours. You can choose between receiving results via email or not receiving them. And if you want to have a total control over the process, then enable manual approval for the task. Nextbrowser will stop the workflow when your approval is necessary, and you will decide on the next steps.
Key Factors and Practices for Successful Account Warm-up
In addition to reliable AI tools, there are also practices that make the warm-up process even more reliable and efficient. These include:
- Using different IPs for each account: Changing your IP address is easy in Nextbrowser's settings: when creating a new profile with your new account information, simply select a new region. You won't need any additional apps or settings. Be sure to consider the audience you're targeting with your new account and don't neglect changing your IP address. Using different IPs for each account prevents them from being flagged for performing similar actions from the same location.
- Monitor your progress: Analyze your accounts' performance periodically. You can do this yourself or ask the AI agent to generate a report. Be sure to monitor progress and, if there's a lack of it, adjust your strategy or revise your action plan. If you notice any unusual flags or restrictions, reduce the activity and adjust your warm-up process.
- Follow platform guidelines: Every platform has rules about activity limits. Be sure you’re aware of these rules and stay within those limits to avoid penalties. Also, never collect personal data from your subscribers or ordinary users. Respect the privacy of others.
- Timing of activity: Social media security systems are aware of how regular users behave, so avoid excessive activity in a short period of time. Ask the AI agent to behave naturally and access your account at different times. Let it spread the activity throughout the day to avoid appearing too automated. Too many actions in a short time can raise suspicion.
- Consistency is the key: Any interactions with your account shouldn't be excessive. However, it's important to maintain consistency. Take your time and stick to a plan: the AI agent will perform actions on your page every day at different intervals, maintaining consistency.
Conclusion
Account warm-up is an important step in managing healthy and legitimate accounts across different platforms. By gradually increasing your activity, engaging with content in a natural way, and using the right tools, you can ensure that your accounts remain secure and operational for the long term. Following these simple guidelines will help you avoid bans, improve your account’s visibility, and keep your accounts safe while they grow. Remember to follow the rules of social network platforms and not to exceed their limits that change constantly. The good news: Nextbrowser doesn’t have any limitations.
