The short answer
- 1 NodeMaven Best session persistence Visit site
- 2 AnyIP.io Seven-day sticky sessions Visit site
- 3 Novada Mobile carrier depth Visit site
17 best proxies for X (Twitter), compared
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| 1 | 4.8/5 | $2.20 / GB | 88% | SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS | ||
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Sticky sessions up to 24 hours with unlimited concurrent sessions, plus 30M+ residential and 250K mobile IPs across 195+ locations and 95% clean IPs. Good for this job
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| 2 | 4.4/5 | $2 / GB | 80% | HTTPS, SOCKS5 | ||
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Residential and mobile proxies on one plan with sticky sessions up to 7 days and unlimited concurrent requests, though coverage is 38+ countries. Good for this job
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| 3 | 4.3/5 | $0.50 / GB | 88% | HTTP(S) | ||
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100M+ residential IPs across 195+ countries and 2M+ mobile IPs on 120+ carriers; residential sessions run 1-120 minutes and rotating ISP reaches 360 minutes. Good for this job
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| 4 | 4.2/5 | $0.35 / GB | 90% | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5, HTTP/2 | ||
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30M+ residential and 4M+ mobile IPs across 170+ countries, unlimited sessions and concurrent connections, with city, ISP, ASN and ZIP targeting. Good for this job
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| 5 | 4.1/5 | $0.08 / GB | 100% | HTTP(S), SOCKS5 | ||
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115M+ residential IPs in 195+ locations with city, ZIP and ASN targeting, but sticky sessions last only up to 30 minutes. Good for this job
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| 6 | 4.0/5 | $0.40 / GB | 100% | — | ||
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175M+ residential IPs across 195 locations, mobile proxies priced separately, and published per-tier rates for high-volume collection; no session length stated. Good for this job
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| 7 | 3.8/5 | $0.30 / GB | 96% | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 | ||
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47M+ residential IPs in 220+ locations and 5G/4G/LTE mobile, but mobile coverage reaches only 20+ countries and no sticky session length is published. Good for this job
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| 8 | 3.7/5 | $2 / GB | 88% | SOCKS4, SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS | ||
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Sticky IPs up to 72 hours with unlimited concurrent connections, but the 20M+ residential pool is smaller and mobile covers only Poland and Ukraine. Good for this job
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| 9 | 3.6/5 | $0.06 / GB | 100% | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 | ||
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86M+ residential IPs across 200+ countries with country, state and city targeting and HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS5; unlimited residential offers random and sticky rotation. Good for this job
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| 10 | 3.5/5 | $0.02 / month | 100% | — | ||
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80M+ IPs across 195 countries, city/ZIP/ASN targeting and 500-3,000 threads, but the product line is datacenter and residential without mobile proxies. Good for this job
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| 11 | 3.4/5 | $0.63 / GB | 86% | SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS | ||
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Rotating residential and mobile proxies under one account across 195 countries, with 95% clean IP pool claimed; no sticky session duration is published. Good for this job
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| 12 | 3.3/5 | — | 81% | SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS | ||
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80M+ residential IPs across 195 countries with country, city, ISP and ASN targeting, but no free trial or refunds and no published sticky session length. Good for this job
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| 13 | 3.2/5 | ₽490 / day | 83% | SOCKS5, HTTP | ||
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Mobile proxies with unlimited traffic and up to 250 simultaneous connections per proxy, but third-party records show 30+ countries and only 2M+ IPs. Good for this job
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| 14 | 3.0/5 | $5 / proxy | 85% | — | ||
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Mobile proxies at $15 per proxy/month and residential at $5, with 150+ locations, but the 7M+ IP pool is much smaller than larger residential networks. Good for this job
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| 15 | 2.9/5 | $0.90 / GB | 86% | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 | ||
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Over 100M residential addresses across 195+ countries and unlimited concurrent sessions, but there are no mobile proxies and no refunds once sold. Good for this job
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| 16 | 2.7/5 | $2 | 82% | HTTP/S | ||
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60-minute sticky residential and 30-minute sticky mobile sessions with no concurrency limit, but geography is described without a country count and static residential is unavailable. Good for this job
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| 17 | 1.8/5 | $1 | 82% | — | ||
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Shared proxies put multiple users on the same IP and the provider warns busy servers slow down; no residential pool size or mobile coverage is published. Good for this job
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Ordered by how well each provider fits this job, from the figures the providers publish, our review scores and reader votes — see our methodology.
Why X locks accounts on a new address
When you sign in, X scores the attempt before it lets you through. The inputs are the address you arrive from and the network that owns it, the country and city that address resolves to, the browser fingerprint, the cookies already stored, the time since the last session, and whether that particular address has a history of abuse reports behind it. A login from a new country, with no cookies, on a network X associates with hosting, scores badly. The account locks and you are asked for a phone number, an emailed code or a puzzle.
A lock is not a suspension. It is a checkpoint, and it exists mostly to slow down credential stuffing: thousands of stolen username and password pairs tried from a small set of addresses. Your legitimate login looks close enough to that pattern when the address changes without warning.
The practical consequence is that anything which changes the address under a live session, whether that is a rotating pool, a proxy that drops and reconnects, or a laptop moving from home broadband to a phone hotspot, produces the signal X is watching for. The cookies auth_token and ct0 are what keep you signed in. If they survive an address change, the session usually survives too. If the address changes and the cookies do not, X sees a session token being used somewhere new.
Session length is the lever. An account that logs in twice a month from the same address generates two chances to be challenged. An account logging in every hour from a different address generates dozens. Choose a proxy partly on how long it will hold one address still.
Residential, ISP or mobile for X
Three kinds of address are sold, and they fail in different ways.
Datacenter addresses are fast, cheap and the easiest for X to classify. The network owner is a hosting company, and hosting ranges are where a large share of automated traffic originates. That does not make them useless: for reading public pages at a modest rate, a clean datacenter address often works with no prompt at all. For logging into an account, especially a new one, a hosting address is the most reliable way to trigger phone verification.
Residential addresses come from real subscriber lines, usually sold per gigabyte or as a rotating pool. They look ordinary to X because they are ordinary. The catch is sharing. The address you are handed may have been used for spam an hour ago and X remembers, which is why the criterion about how shared an address is matters more than raw pool size. Residential pools are also slower, and priced by traffic, which starts to bite once you are pulling media rather than text.
ISP, or static residential, addresses are hosted in a datacenter but registered to a consumer ISP. You get one address that stays yours for as long as you pay for it. That combination, stable and plausible and uncontested, is what a long-lived account wants. It is not cheap per address, and it is the wrong purchase if you need a hundred addresses this afternoon.
Mobile addresses sit behind carrier-grade NAT, so hundreds of real handsets share one address at any moment. That noise is protective: an address with that much ordinary human traffic behind it is hard to judge on behaviour alone. Mobile survives account creation and recovery better than anything else, and it is the most expensive per gigabyte and the slowest of the four.
A workable split: mobile for creating an account and for getting through a recovery challenge, static ISP for the accounts you intend to keep, residential rotation for reading and scraping, and datacenter for nothing that involves a password.
One address per account, and when to break that rule
The default is one account, one address, held for as long as possible. Keep a record, even a spreadsheet, of account, address, country and the date the address was assigned. When something goes wrong six weeks later you will want to know what changed.
Sticky sessions should be measured in days, not minutes. If your provider hands out a new address every ten minutes, the account is effectively travelling constantly and no amount of residential authenticity fixes that.
There are legitimate reasons to break the pairing:
- The address has been retired by the provider, or has started failing.
- The address now resolves to a different country or city than it used to, which is worse than a clean move.
- The address is visibly burned, and every login on it now produces a challenge.
- The account needs to appear in a country that matches the number attached to it.
Break it deliberately. Sign out, let the session lapse on the old address, then sign in from the new one inside the same country if you can. Expect one challenge and complete it calmly rather than repeating the attempt six times in two minutes. Then stay there. A single clean move is a footnote in the account's history; three moves in a week is a pattern.
What is not a reason to break the rule: a timeout, a rate limit, or a slow page. Rotating on failure trains you to rotate constantly, which is the failure mode this section exists to prevent.
How to attach a proxy to an X client
Most of the work is in getting the credentials right, and most of the failures are in the details.
For a single request from the command line, curl takes the proxy inline. The socks5h scheme resolves DNS at the proxy rather than locally, which stops a lookup leaking the fact that you are somewhere else.
curl --proxy http://user:pass@host:8080 https://ifconfig.me
curl --proxy socks5h://user:pass@host:1080 https://ifconfig.me
In Python the same thing is a dictionary passed to the request. Set both the http and https keys; requests will fall back to a direct connection otherwise.
proxies = {'http': 'http://user:pass@host:8080', 'https': 'http://user:pass@host:8080'}
requests.get('https://x.com', proxies=proxies, timeout=30)
For browser automation, Playwright takes a proxy object at launch, which is cleaner than setting environment variables and hoping nothing overrides them.
browser = p.chromium.launch(proxy={'server': 'http://host:8080', 'username': 'user', 'password': 'pass'})
In a desktop browser the setting sits one level down from where most people look. Firefox has its own: Settings, then Network Settings, then Manual proxy configuration, with a separate field for SOCKS and a checkbox to send DNS through it as well. Chrome and Edge follow the operating system, so on Windows it is Settings, Network & Internet, Proxy, and on macOS it is System Settings, Network, the active connection, Details, Proxies. A browser profile pinned to one proxy is worth the extra five minutes, because it keeps the cookies and the address together.
The X mobile app has no proxy field at all. Anything you do there is a system-wide VPN or nothing, which is one reason account work on a phone tends to happen in a browser rather than the app.
If the password contains @, : or a slash, URL-encode it or use the tool's separate username and password fields. Do not leave credentials in a URL that ends up in a log file. Before you sign anything in, load /what-is-my-ip/ through the proxy and confirm the address and country are the ones you paid for.
Collecting posts at volume
Reading X at scale is a scraping job with an identity problem attached. The public web client renders much of its content in JavaScript, expects a bearer token and a guest token before it serves anything, and rate-limits hard per address and per token. The official API is the sanctioned route, priced accordingly, with tiers and per-endpoint limits.
If you are working against the web client instead, the address pool is the throttle. Plan a request budget per address rather than a total, back off when you see HTTP 429, and read the rate-limit headers the response gives you rather than guessing. Concurrency spread across many addresses beats concurrency against one, because the limit is usually per address rather than per machine.
Keep scraping identities separate from account identities. The address that logs into a years-old account should not also be firing ten thousand timeline requests an hour; if that address is blocked, the account goes with it. Use a different pool, ideally from a different provider, for each job.
Pool depth matters more than pool size on paper. A list of ten thousand addresses where most are dead, slow or already blocked gives you less throughput than a few hundred that answer in under a second. Test before you scale: a pass through /proxy-checker/ tells you which addresses respond, how quickly, and whether they leak your real address, and that is cheaper than finding out halfway through a run.
Store what you collect: raw responses, timestamps, and the address used for each request. When a batch comes back incomplete you will want to know whether the parser or the pool was at fault.
What the terms say
X's terms prohibit scraping and crawling the service without prior permission, and require automated access to go through the API. Using a proxy does not change that. A proxy changes who can see your traffic; it does not change what you agreed to.
It is worth being precise about what kind of rule this is. Breaching a platform's terms is a contract matter, and the realistic consequences are a suspended account, blocked addresses and a legal letter if you ignore a cease-and-desist. It is not, by itself, a criminal offence in most jurisdictions. Where it becomes one is when you go past a technical barrier, such as using someone else's credentials or continuing after access has been expressly withdrawn, which is where computer misuse law starts to apply. The line is drawn differently in the US, the UK and the EU, and it is worth knowing which side of it you are on before building a business on it.
Two things are usually forgotten. Posts are personal data when the author is identifiable, which puts GDPR and UK GDPR duties on anything you store about EU or UK residents: a lawful basis, a retention period, and a way to handle deletion requests. And buying or selling accounts is against the rules regardless of what address those accounts sit on.
None of this makes a proxy illegitimate. Running several accounts you own from separate addresses is ordinary and the terms do not forbid it. Scraping at volume does breach them, and a proxy makes that harder to detect rather than permitted. Say that plainly to yourself before buying anything.
Mistakes that get an X account suspended
Most suspensions are not one dramatic error. They are small inconsistencies that add up to a profile no human produces.
- Hopping countries. Signing in from the Netherlands, then Brazil, then Japan inside an hour. Each login is a fresh risk score and the sequence is not survivable.
- Rotating mid-session. A rotating pool behind a logged-in browser kills the session and flags the token reuse.
- Mixing jobs. Scraping thousands of pages through the same address that holds your main account.
- Shared fingerprints. Ten accounts in one browser profile share cookies, canvas output and fonts. Separate profiles, separate addresses.
- Shared recovery details. The same phone number or email across accounts links them no matter how separate the addresses are.
- Free proxies. A proxy operator terminates your TLS and can read the session cookies. A free list is a list of strangers who may be reading your account. The free proxy list is useful for testing a client's configuration, not for holding a login.
- Changing everything at once. New address, new password, new email and new phone on the same afternoon reads as a takeover, because that is what a takeover looks like.
- Inhuman pacing. Following, liking or posting at a rate no person matches, particularly on a new account with no history.
- Repeating a failed login. If a challenge fails, stop. Six retries in a row turns a checkpoint into a suspension.
- Identical content across accounts. The same posts from separate addresses on the same day link the accounts by text alone.
Warm an account slowly. Log in, read, leave. Build a few weeks of ordinary behaviour on a stable address before asking it to do anything at volume. If you want a shortlist of providers to hold those addresses, the independent reviews cover what each one is actually good at rather than what its homepage claims.
What to look for
- Session length
- X flags an account that logs in from a new place, and session length is what prevents that.
- Residential and mobile availability
- Datacenter addresses are the ones most often met with a phone-verification prompt.
- How shared the address is
- An address with a history of suspended accounts hands you that history.
- Capacity for collecting posts
- Collecting from X at volume is a scraping job underneath, so pool depth and concurrency matter too.
- Country coverage
- Trends and some content are regional, and verification often checks that the address matches the number.
Every provider, in order
1. NodeMaven — Best session persistence
4.8 / 5 for this job · from $2.20 / GB
NodeMaven sits at the top of this list because session length is the thing X punishes hardest, and its headline number is the longest anyone here publishes: sticky sessions of up to 24 hours, with unlimited concurrent sessions. An account that keeps one address through a login, a posting session and an API pull looks like a person on a home connection. One that changes address mid-session gets the verification prompt.
The pool covers the two types X tolerates: 30M+ residential IPs and 250K mobile IPs on the provider's own count, with third-party records putting mobile at 295K+. Targeting reaches country, city and ISP level, with ZIP level claimed, across 190+ countries — enough to line an address up with the region a verified phone number belongs to. Residential, mobile and ISP sit under one account and dashboard, HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 are supported, and ISP plans carry unlimited traffic with a 99.9% uptime guarantee, which suits always-on account work rather than collection.
The catch is the traffic model. At $2.20/GB a month of timeline collection across many accounts adds up, and high-volume scraping gets expensive fast. There is no free trial — the $3.50, 750 MB entry point is a paid demo, and a third-party write-up says free-trial access is limited to registered companies that pass KYC. Smaller locations are reported to be uneven in depth, refunds are pro-rated rather than full, and the mobile pool figure depends on which source you read.
Key features
- Sticky sessions up to 24 hours with unlimited concurrent sessions
- 30M+ residential IPs and 250K mobile IPs, provider figures
- Country, city and ISP targeting; ZIP level claimed; 190+ countries
- Residential, mobile and ISP proxies in one dashboard; HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5
- ISP plans carry unlimited traffic and a 99.9% uptime guarantee
- $2.20/GB; the 750 MB entry point is a $3.50 paid demo, not a free trial
Best suited for: keeping one X account on one address through long logged-in sessions
2. AnyIP.io — Seven-day sticky sessions
4.4 / 5 for this job · from $2 / GB
AnyIP.io takes second place on the strength of a seven-day sticky session, the longest fixed window here after NodeMaven. On X that matters in a specific way: a session that survives a week covers the period in which a fresh login would otherwise trigger a location check, so an account can be worked daily without its address changing underneath it.
Residential and mobile come on one plan at one price, with only bandwidth metered, and rotation and concurrent requests are unmetered — threads and rotations are not charged separately, which helps when collecting posts at volume alongside account work. Smart Sessions keep the IP inside the same carrier and area, IP collision prevention and change-IP-by-link are included, and filtering reaches country, ISP, region and precise GPS coordinates. Unused data rolls over into the next billing cycle on every plan.
The awkward parts: 38+ countries is a short list if your accounts are spread wider than that, and the advertised $2/GB is the Enterprise rate — extra traffic is $5/GB on Micro and $4/GB on Basic. There is no free trial; Micro at $25 for 5 GB is the entry point and it is paid up front. Crypto payments fall outside the refund policy, with the 14-day money-back guarantee covering card purchases only, and team seats are capped at 2, 5 and 10 before Enterprise.
Key features
- Sticky sessions up to 7 days
- Residential and mobile on one plan, only bandwidth metered
- Unlimited IP rotation and unlimited concurrent requests
- 38+ countries; filtering by country, ISP, region and GPS coordinates
- Unused data rolls over to the next billing cycle
- Micro $25 for 5 GB; extra traffic $5/GB on Micro and $4/GB on Basic
Best suited for: keeping a small set of accounts resident on one address for days at a time
3. Novada — Mobile carrier depth
4.3 / 5 for this job · from $0.50 / GB
Novada is here for the mobile side. It publishes 2M+ mobile IPs across 120+ carriers, the kind of inventory that matters when X decides a login needs a phone check: mobile addresses are the ones most often let through, and a carrier-level match between the number and the address is roughly what the check is asking for. Residential is the larger pool — 100M+ IPs across 195+ countries with city-level targeting — and country counts are published individually, including 8,426,658 for the United States and 2,838,522 for the UK.
Session windows are stated plainly: 1–120 minutes on residential, 360-minute sticky sessions on rotating ISP. That is short of what account work wants — you would be re-establishing the session several times a day — but it is fine for collecting posts and trends, where the job is many short requests rather than one long login. Mobile starts at $1.5/GB, residential at $1.3/GB, rotating datacenter at $0.50/GB, and $10 buys 10 GB of residential for a new user.
The catch is that the 99.99% success headline does not clearly apply to every pool, since rotating datacenter is quoted at 99%, and Unlimited Proxies, IPv6 and Datasets carry no published price at all — only an account manager. The free trial covers the Scraper API alone; the general offer is a $10 credit, which is a different thing.
Key features
- 2M+ mobile IPs across 120+ carriers
- 100M+ residential IPs in 195+ countries with city-level targeting
- Residential sessions of 1–120 minutes; 360-minute sticky on rotating ISP
- Mobile from $1.5/GB, residential from $1.3/GB, rotating datacenter from $0.50/GB
- $10 for 10 GB of residential traffic for new users
- Published country counts, e.g. 8,426,658 US and 2,838,522 UK IPs
Best suited for: mobile-carrier work and regional post collection where the address must match the number's country
4. ProxyEmpire — Mobile coverage breadth
4.2 / 5 for this job · from $0.35 / GB
ProxyEmpire's case is mobile breadth. It lists 4M+ mobile IPs across 170+ countries — far more countries than most mobile pools reach — with mobile targeting at country, city and carrier level. For X that is the useful combination: trends are regional, and a verification check generally wants the address and the phone number in the same place.
Residential covers the same 170+ countries on a 30M+ pool, with targeting at country, region, city, ISP, ASN, OS/TCP and ZIP, unlimited sessions and concurrent connections for approved use cases, and rollover bandwidth that never expires. There is a $1.97 trial with 150 MB that does not auto-convert into a subscription, and code EMPIRE50 takes 50% off rotating residential and mobile on GB-based plans — rotating mobile pay-as-you-go lands at $4.50/GB, Mobile A at $25 for 6 GB.
Two limits are worth knowing before committing. Coverage is uneven by product: datacenter reaches 62 countries and static ISP 24, while dedicated mobile reaches only 5+ countries and 50+ locations, and drops to country, city and carrier. The trial excludes static ISP and datacenter, unlimited bandwidth is priced per day or week from $200/day with no rollover, and EMPIRE50 does not apply to flat-rate plans.
Key features
- 4M+ mobile IPs across 170+ countries; mobile targeting by country, city and carrier
- 30M+ residential IPs with targeting down to ZIP, ASN and OS/TCP
- Rollover bandwidth on GB plans; unused GB never expire
- $1.97 trial with 150 MB and no auto-conversion
- EMPIRE50: 50% off rotating residential and mobile on eligible GB plans
- Dedicated mobile: 5+ countries and 50+ locations
Best suited for: spreading mobile sessions across a wide set of countries at a low per-GB rate
5. Decodo (ex Smartproxy) — Large residential pool
4.1 / 5 for this job · from $0.08 / GB
Smartproxy — now Decodo, the rename taking effect in April 2025 — sits fifth on pool size. It publishes 115M+ residential IPs inside a 125M+ total across 195+ locations, the sort of depth that lets you avoid reusing an address across accounts. Targeting reaches continent, country, state, city, ZIP code and ASN level, and published country counts include 16M+ in the United States and 5M+ in the UK.
The weakness for account work is session length: sticky IPs are held for up to 30 minutes, so a long logged-in session on X would need re-establishing repeatedly. Where it earns its place is collection — a 99.92% success rate on residential proxies, 0.5s average response time, HTTP(S) and SOCKS5, SDKs and integrations covering n8n, LangChain and 50+ browser tools. Residential runs $3.75/GB at 3 GB down to $2.75/GB at 100 GB; pay-as-you-go is $4/GB and is wallet only.
The catches are commercial. The 3-day, 100 MB free trial and the 14-day money-back option are mutually exclusive, so taking the trial removes refund eligibility. Refunds are limited to a first purchase, need a request within 14 calendar days, and are capped at under 20% of a residential plan's traffic. Pay-as-you-go cannot be combined with a monthly subscription, and the fraud-score comparison on the site does not name the scoring service behind the numbers.
Key features
- 115M+ residential IPs, 125M+ total, across 195+ locations
- Targeting down to city, ZIP code and ASN level
- Sticky IPs held for up to 30 minutes; rotation per request
- Residential: $3.75/GB at 3 GB, $2.75/GB at 100 GB
- 3-day, 100 MB free trial
- HTTP(S) and SOCKS5; SDKs and 50+ tool integrations
Best suited for: high-volume post and timeline collection where a deep, city-targetable residential pool matters more than long sessions
6. Oxylabs.io — Enterprise pool depth
4.0 / 5 for this job · from $0.40 / GB
Oxylabs is the largest pool on the list and the most expensive way to use it. It claims 177M+ IPs in total, 175M+ of them residential, across 195 locations — depth that makes address reuse avoidable at scale. Unit rates are published for every product and every tier, so a budget can be modelled before anyone gets on a call: residential runs from $6/GB on the $30/month Starter plan down to $2.5/GB at enterprise level, mobile from $7.5/GB down to $3.5/GB.
For X work the fit is collection rather than account handling. It is strongest on procurement: ISO/IEC 27001:2022 naming Datacenter Proxies, Residential Proxies and Web API, SOC 2 Type II naming the Scrape endpoint and Web Unblocker, technology E&O and cyber insurance, GDPR and EU AI Act alignment, 24/7 support with an account manager on larger accounts. A single subscription carries the whole catalogue, which keeps several jobs on one contract.
The catch is the entry cost. A $5 welcome credit is under a gigabyte of residential traffic at Starter rates, the cheapest paid plan is $30/month, and enterprise starts at $2,500/month through sales. VAT may apply on Starter, Basic and Flexible, so the advertised rate is not always the invoice. Bitcoin is not accepted, and the certifications name specific products rather than the whole catalogue — they are not company-wide cover.
Key features
- 177M+ IPs total, 175M+ residential, across 195 locations
- Published tiers: residential $6/GB on Starter, $2.5/GB at enterprise
- Mobile $7.5/GB on Starter, $3.5/GB at enterprise
- $5 welcome credit; cheapest paid plan $30/month; enterprise from $2,500/month
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 for Datacenter Proxies, Residential Proxies and Web API
- No Bitcoin; VAT may apply on Starter, Basic and Flexible
Best suited for: large, compliance-reviewed collection programmes rather than a handful of accounts
7. Proxy-Seller — Wide location footprint
3.8 / 5 for this job · from $0.30 / GB
Proxy-Seller sits seventh because its argument for X is breadth rather than depth. It declares 47M+ rotating residential IPs across 220+ locations, which is the widest residential footprint in this part of the table. That matters in two specific ways. Trends and some content on X are regional, and verification often checks that the address matches the number on the account, so a pool with more countries gives you a better chance of putting an account where it claims to be. Pool depth per country also gives rotations somewhere to go between sessions.
Session length is the thing X watches hardest, and this is where the product mix matters more than the headline pool. Residential addresses are the ones least likely to draw a phone-verification prompt; datacenter ones, which start at $0.02/IP here, are the ones most likely to. The provider publishes a residential response time of about 0.35s, 99.7% uptime and a 99.5%+ connection success rate, all its own figures with no independent test cited alongside them, so treat them as claims to test rather than numbers to plan a budget around. HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 are all supported, which covers the usual anti-detect browser setups.
The catch is mobile. Mobile coverage reaches 20+ countries against 220+ residential locations, and mobile pricing starts at $10/IP. If the plan for an account is to hold it on a mobile address — and for X that is often the more durable option — this is not the provider to build that on. Use it for residential breadth, and accept the thinner mobile footprint as the trade.
Key features
- 47M+ rotating residential IPs across 220+ locations, as declared by the provider
- Mobile coverage in 20+ countries, against 220+ residential locations
- Residential from $0.30/GB; mobile from $10/IP; datacenter from $0.02/IP
- HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 with RESTful API and IP whitelisting
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and ISO 9001:2015 certified
- 99.7% uptime and 99.5%+ connection success rate, provider's own figures
Best suited for: accounts that need residential addresses in many different countries rather than mobile ones
8. GonzoProxy — 72-hour sticky sessions
3.7 / 5 for this job · from $2 / GB
GonzoProxy sits eighth because it addresses the single biggest cause of trouble on X: a login appearing from an unfamiliar place. Sticky IPs are claimed for up to 72 hours, which is long enough to keep one account on one address across several days of ordinary posting and browsing. If a login resets every few minutes, the account looks like it is moving constantly, and that is what triggers challenges. Three days of continuity is a different behaviour pattern, and it is the reason this provider ranks here despite a mixed record elsewhere.
Connections are unlimited on every plan, so parallel sessions across several accounts are not throttled by the plan tier. Targeting runs down to country, city, state, continent, ZIP code and ASN, which helps when a trend or a verification check is regionally specific. Billing is per GB with traffic that never expires and rolls over to the next plan, which suits work that comes in bursts rather than steady pulls. The provider also ships ready configs for the common anti-detect browsers and a REST API. Published speed and success-rate figures are its own and are not independently verified on its site.
The catch is mobile, and it is a hard limit: mobile proxies cover Poland and Ukraine only. For X, mobile addresses tend to survive longer than any other type, and this provider cannot supply them at scale. The demo is also not free — $1.99 for 0.3 GB, with a separate trial row at $4.50 for 1 GB — and two published residential plan ladders quote different per-GB rates for the same volumes, so check which one applies at checkout. Per-request logs in the dashboard are thin.
Key features
- Sticky IPs claimed for up to 72 hours
- Unlimited concurrent connections on every plan
- Targeting by country, city, state, continent, ZIP code and ASN
- Traffic never expires and rolls over to the next plan
- Mobile proxies limited to Poland and Ukraine
- Demo costs $1.99 for 0.3 GB; trial row at $4.50 for 1 GB
Best suited for: holding individual accounts on one address for days at a time, provided mobile addresses are not required
9. ProxySale.com — Cheap residential volume
3.6 / 5 for this job · from $0.06 / GB
Proxy-Sale.com sits ninth because it is the cheapest route to residential volume in this section, and volume is what an X collection job actually consumes. It declares 86M+ residential IPs across 200+ countries, with country, state and city targeting on the residential product and HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 all supported. Residential pricing starts from $0.5/GB with usage-based billing, so a post-collection job that pulls a lot and uses little per request sits comfortably here. Static residential is $5/IP and static datacenter $3/IP if you need addresses that do not move.
For account work rather than collection, the useful parts are different. City-level targeting lets you place an account where its number is registered, which is one of the checks that trips verification. The unlimited residential plan carries random and sticky rotation, though its sticky behaviour is not specified in hours the way some competitors specify it, so how long a session really lasts is something to confirm before committing an account to it. The Web Scraper API bills only for successfully delivered results and has a 30-day zero-setup trial, which is unusual and worth using as a cheap check on the network.
The catches are structural. Unlimited Residential is billed per day at $69.68, which is awkward for long jobs that only need a fraction of that capacity. The free trial covers the Web Scraper API only, not the proxy network, so there is no way to test pool quality before paying. Service is not available in mainland China by the provider's own policy. Uptime, success rate and response time are provider-declared with no third-party audit shown.
Key features
- 86M+ residential IPs across 200+ countries, by the provider's own count
- Country, state and city targeting on residential proxies
- Residential from $0.5/GB, billed on usage
- Unlimited Residential at $69.68/day with random and sticky rotation
- Static residential at $5/IP; static datacenter at $3/IP
- Free trial covers the Web Scraper API only, not the proxy network
Best suited for: high-volume post collection where per-GB cost matters more than long-held account sessions
10. Webshare.io — Large no-mobile pool
3.5 / 5 for this job · from $0.02 / month
Webshare.io sits tenth because it is the strongest option here for the collection half of X work and has nothing at all for the mobile half. It declares 80M+ rotating residential IPs across 195 countries, with targeting down to country, state, city, ZIP code and ASN, thread limits from 500 to 3,000 and bandwidth tiers from 250GB to unlimited. Collection from X is a scraping job once you are past a handful of accounts, and those numbers are aimed squarely at it. There is also a permanent free plan with 10 proxies and no card required, which lets you see whether requests complete from your own infrastructure before any money moves.
For logins, the static residential (ISP) pool is the piece that matters, because an ISP address stays put and session length is what stops X treating a login as a new location. That product is listed at $6.00 per month. The provider names Comcast and AT&T among carriers and then says "& more", so you cannot confirm a specific carrier before buying. Datacenter proxies from $2.99/month are the cheap tier, but datacenter addresses are the ones most often met with a phone-verification prompt on X, so they are a poor base for accounts.
The catches: there is no mobile product at all, so any plan that depends on mobile addresses surviving longer cannot be built here. The unlimited bandwidth claim carries an asterisk pointing to a Fair Usage Policy. The provider's own pages give both 195 countries and 50+ locations, so the real footprint is hard to pin down. The 99.7% success rate and 99.97% uptime are its own, with no independent verification alongside them.
Key features
- 80M+ rotating residential IPs; targeting to country, state, city, ZIP and ASN
- Static residential (ISP) at $6.00/month; no mobile product offered
- Permanent free plan with 10 proxies, no credit card required
- Bandwidth 250GB to unlimited, subject to a Fair Usage Policy
- Thread limits from 500 to 3,000; HTTP and SOCKS5 on the same credentials
- 99.7% success rate and 99.97% uptime, provider's own figures
Best suited for: post and trend collection at volume, plus fixed ISP addresses for logins, with no mobile requirement
11. Floppydata — Residential and mobile mix
3.4 / 5 for this job · from $0.63 / GB
Floppydata sits eleventh because it is the only provider in this group that sells residential, mobile, ISP and datacenter under one account, and the mix is the point. Mobile addresses survive longer on X than any other type, and rotating traffic starts at $1.00/GB across residential, mobile and datacenter. Bulk mobile is published at $2.07/GB on the 120 GB tier and $2.36/GB at 96 GB, with 20% and 30% discounts stated as open tiers. That combination — a residential pool for collection and a mobile pool for the accounts that matter — removes the need to run two vendors and two sets of credentials.
Targeting is by country, city, ASN and IP type, so an account can be pinned to a city while collection runs elsewhere. Static datacenter starts at $0.79/IP/month in bundles of 20, 50 or 100, and static residential at $1.79/IP/month. The API is at api.floppydata.net with X-Api-Key authentication, and payment runs through Stripe cards or 50+ cryptocurrencies. The provider claims a 95% clean IP pool and SOC 2, CCPA and GDPR compliance, which matters if an address with a history of suspended accounts would otherwise be handed to you.
The catches are maturity and evidence. The company was founded in April 2024, so it has a short track record. There is no phone support, and documentation is thin for advanced setups such as custom rotation logic. The 100 MB free trial per type is a connectivity check, not a load test. Figures such as 99.99% uptime and sub-0.3-second response times are provider claims.
Key features
- Residential, mobile, ISP and datacenter proxies under one account
- Rotating traffic from $1.00/GB; mobile at $2.07/GB on the 120 GB tier
- 100 MB free trial for residential, datacenter and mobile separately
- Targeting by country, city, ASN and IP type
- Client API at api.floppydata.net with X-Api-Key authentication
- Founded April 2024; no phone support; documentation thin for custom rotation
Best suited for: teams that want residential collection and mobile-held accounts from a single supplier and can work without phone support
12. Nsocks — Static ISP options
3.3 / 5 for this job
Nsocks sits twelfth because its range is broad but the evidence is thin, and for X that combination has to be priced accordingly. Rotating, static, datacenter, ISP and unlimited proxies are sold as separate products with separate billing, which means you can put collection on rotating residential and account logins on a static ISP address without mixing the two. That split is the correct shape for X: fixed addresses for the accounts that need session length, rotating addresses for gathering posts. Country, city, ISP and ASN targeting is reported by third parties, and the provider claims 80M+ real-user residential IPs and 99.95% uptime.
Payment breadth is unusual — crypto, Alipay, WeChat Pay and UPI alongside cards — and there are listed integrations with most major anti-detect browsers plus Playwright, Selenium and an API, so most automation stacks will connect without custom work. Static residential plans are listed with unlimited bandwidth but a 20 Mbps cap, which is fine for posting and thin for anything that pulls media. The dashboard carries traffic statistics.
The catches are the reason it sits last in this section. There is no free trial, so pool quality cannot be checked before paying, and the provider states it does not support refunds on products sold. Its own home page quotes two different pool sizes, 80M+ and 90M+, so neither can be treated as firm. Third-party records put its founding at 26 August 2024, making it the shortest operating history here. For an X job where an address's history becomes your account's history, that is a real risk to weigh rather than a footnote.
Key features
- Rotating, static, datacenter, ISP and unlimited proxies sold as separate products
- 80M+ real-user residential IPs claimed; home page also states 90M+
- Country, city, ISP and ASN targeting reported by third parties
- Static residential listed with unlimited bandwidth and a 20 Mbps cap
- No free trial and no refunds on products sold, per the provider
- Founded 26 August 2024, per third-party records
Best suited for: buyers who want rotating and static ISP products on separate billing and accept no trial or refund to get the price
13. MobileProxy.Space — Mobile rotation testing
3.2 / 5 for this job · from ₽490 / day
Mobile rotation is why this sits at thirteen rather than lower. X is harder on datacenter addresses than on mobile ones: a phone-network address has already been shared by hundreds of real handsets, so it arrives with an ordinary history instead of a flagged one. What you need on top of that is control over when the address changes, and that is what the dashboard gives you — rotation on a timer or by hitting an API link, with the provider stating an IP change time of 2–7 seconds.
The rental model suits testing. Minimum rental is one day, mobile plans bill by rental period with unlimited traffic rather than by the gigabyte, and the provider states refunds for unused time. So you can hold one address across a login, a posting run and a quiet period — session length being what stops an account being read as a new place — then rotate deliberately, without a monthly commitment. The provider also states up to 250 simultaneous connections per mobile proxy, which covers a collection job running alongside account work. On coverage the two records disagree: a third-party listing names 30+ countries, the provider 53. Check the specific country you need rather than assuming either figure covers it.
The catch is price and consistency. Third-party write-ups call the prices relatively high, and a day-rate mounts quickly if you leave it running. Customers have reported problems with geographical locations, laggy proxies and late-night maintenance windows. Third-party records and the provider's own numbers also disagree on pool size, operator count and server count, which makes any single figure on the site a claim rather than a measurement.
Key features
- Mobile and dedicated datacenter proxies under one account
- Minimum rental one day; mobile billed by period with unlimited traffic
- IP rotation on a timer or by API link; provider states 2–7 seconds to change
- Provider states up to 250 simultaneous connections per mobile proxy
- Dead proxies replaced automatically, according to the provider
- Countries given as 30+ by a third-party listing and 53 by the provider
Best suited for: short mobile rotation trials where you want to change address deliberately between sessions without a monthly commitment
14. ASocks.com — Per-proxy mobile budget
3.0 / 5 for this job · from $5 / proxy
ASocks lands here because of how it charges, not what it claims. Mobile is $15 per proxy per month, residential and corporate are $5, and there is no per-gigabyte meter in the pricing table. For X account work that is the useful shape: you buy an address, keep it for a month, and the bill does not change whether you post twice a day or run a slow collection job in the background. Volume discounts start at ten proxies with 5%, fifty with 10% and a hundred with 15%, which is priced for a set of accounts rather than one.
The rest of the pitch is provider-stated and should be read that way: 99.7% connection success, 150+ locations, 7M+ IP addresses, 100,000+ clients, its own infrastructure with clean addresses, support averaging under ten minutes. None of it is audited and the record carries no independent test. The record also says nothing about session control — sticky periods, rotation rules, how long an address holds — so if your workflow needs a fixed address for a whole login session, ask before buying rather than assume the flat monthly fee buys one.
The obvious weakness is the mobile price. $15 against $5 is a real gap, and mobile is the tier that survives X's verification prompts best. If the job is trend reading or post collection rather than logged-in accounts, the residential line does that work for a third of the money. If it is accounts, mobile is the tier you want and you pay the difference.
Key features
- Mobile $15 per proxy/month; residential and corporate $5
- Per-proxy monthly billing rather than per gigabyte
- Volume discounts of 5% from 10 proxies, 10% from 50, 15% from 100
- Provider claims 150+ locations and 7M+ IP addresses
- Provider-reported 99.7% connection success and 100,000+ clients
- 24/7 support with a stated average response under 10 minutes
Best suited for: per-proxy budgeting on a small set of accounts, where a flat monthly cost per address is easier to predict than metered traffic
15. FlyProxy — High-concurrency residential pool
2.9 / 5 for this job · from $0.90 / GB
FlyProxy is the collecting-posts entry. A collection job needs depth and concurrency, and this record is strong on both: the provider says over 100 million residential addresses where a third-party listing says 69 million, and both the provider and the third-party review state unlimited concurrent sessions. Coverage is more than 195 countries and regions with targeting down to state and city, and pricing runs from $2.50 per GB at 20 GB down to $0.90 per GB at the 10,240 GB tier.
Third-party country tests in the record land between 96.8% success in Mexico and 98.7% in Germany, with response times from 0.52s to 1.00s and an average of 0.6s. Nine antidetect browser integrations are listed, including Dolphin Anty, Multi Login, MoreLogin and Nstbrowser, with HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 on the third-party listing.
What it cannot do for X is hold an account. There are no mobile proxies in the line-up, which third-party reviewers flag as a gap, and IP lifetime is given as around 24 hours — shorter than a working session should be. If a job needs one address from login through posting, this is the wrong tool and a verification prompt is the likely result. There are no refunds once products are sold, stated by the provider itself, and the trial position contradicts itself: the third-party listing says none, the provider advertises 500 MB through sales. Treat it as a collection pool, price it per gigabyte, and keep account work elsewhere.
Key features
- Residential pool given as over 100M by the provider and 69M by a third-party listing
- Unlimited concurrent sessions, stated by provider and third-party review
- 195+ countries and regions; country, state and city targeting
- Third-party success rates of 96.8% in Mexico to 98.7% in Germany
- IP lifetime around 24 hours, per the third-party listing
- No mobile proxies; no refunds once products are sold
Best suited for: high-volume post and profile collection where pool depth and unlimited concurrency matter more than holding one address steady
16. Live Proxies — Private mobile sessions
2.7 / 5 for this job · from $2
Live Proxies is the private-session option down here. The provider states that IPs are unique and shared only with you, and for X that is the argument: an address nobody else has run accounts on does not arrive with someone else's suspension history attached. Rotating mobile carries a 30-minute sticky session and rotating residential 60 minutes, with no concurrency limit and unlimited threads. Unused bandwidth rolls over to the standby plan, and activation is quoted at around ten minutes.
The offer splits between consumer and business tiers, and the split is where it gets awkward. SOCKS5 appears on the B2B side only, so a consumer setup needing it is out of scope. Static residential is priced at $65.00 per plan on the home page but marked permanently unavailable on the pricing page. Home page starting prices of $45.00, $65.00 and $55.00 do not reconcile with the pricing page's B2C plans starting from $70, and the free trial goes to custom-plan users after an agreement while consumer buyers are told to purchase a small plan instead.
Geography is the other soft spot. The record describes available countries or state-level options with no count, and the state-level IPs are US only. If the job depends on an address matching a particular country for trends or a verification check, that vagueness matters more than the private-allocation pitch. At a 3.6 rating, read the pricing page itself before committing anything.
Key features
- Private IP allocation; provider says IPs are unique and shared only with you
- 30-minute sticky sessions on rotating mobile, 60 minutes on residential
- No concurrency limit and unlimited threads, per the provider
- Unused bandwidth rolls over to the standby plan
- SOCKS5 on the B2B tier only; state-level IPs are US only
- Static residential listed at $65.00/plan but marked permanently unavailable
Best suited for: mobile sessions on accounts that need an address nobody else has touched, where rollover and private allocation outweigh unclear pricing
17. ChangeMyIP.com — Cheap shared proxies
1.8 / 5 for this job · from $1
ChangeMyIP closes the list because the cheapest option is the one that fights the job. Shared HTTP and SOCKS5 are $1.00, dedicated HTTP $1.80 and SOCKS5 $2.20, with unlimited bandwidth, 1Gb/s ports, instant activation and no contract. On paper that is a lot for a dollar. But the provider states plainly that shared proxies put multiple users on the same IP address with shared bandwidth, and that performance can suffer on busy servers. Address history is what X reads hardest, and a shared address arrives carrying whatever its other users did on it.
The rest of the range is genuinely wide: ShadowSocks at $2.20, Trojan at $3.00, DNS proxy at $2.00 and Wireguard VPN at $4.00, paid by card, PayPal or crypto through Zonda, from a provider that says it has sold HTTP proxies and SOCKS5 for more than twelve years.
Three limits apply before price. A $10 minimum order applies even for a single $1.00 shared proxy. Torrents and paypal.com are blocked at proxy level on every product. And the 30-day money-back guarantee does not apply once the service has been used, with refunds limited to bugs or slow performance. The fully anonymous and undetectable wording has no published independent test behind it. Use this for protocol experiments and single-IP automation on things that are not logged-in accounts; for X sessions it is the weakest fit here.
Key features
- Shared HTTP or SOCKS5 at $1.00; dedicated HTTP $1.80, SOCKS5 $2.20
- $10 minimum order regardless of what you buy
- Unlimited bandwidth on 1Gb/s ports, instant activation, no contract
- Provider states shared proxies put multiple users on the same IP address
- Torrents and paypal.com blocked at proxy level on all products
- 30-day guarantee does not apply once the service has been used
Best suited for: cheap protocol testing and single-IP automation that does not involve logged-in accounts
X (Twitter) proxies: questions we get
Does a single X account need its own proxy?
If you only ever sign in from one place, no. A proxy earns its keep when the address needs to be somewhere it isn't, or when several accounts have to be kept apart. Adding one also adds a new thing that can break, so it is a trade rather than a free upgrade.
Can I use free proxies for X?
They are fine for proving your client's proxy settings work before you spend money. They are not safe for a login: the operator sits in the middle of your TLS and can read the session cookies, and free addresses are usually already known to X. Treat a free list as a test bench, not as hosting.
Will a proxy stop X asking for a phone number?
Not on its own. Verification is triggered by a mix of address, fingerprint, cookies and account age, and a new account with no history can still be challenged on a clean residential address. A plausible mobile or residential address removes the most common trigger, so attach a number you control before you need one.
What is the difference between a locked and a suspended X account?
A locked account can be recovered by completing a challenge, usually a code or a puzzle. A suspended account has had access withdrawn and has to be appealed. Locks are routine and normally clear in minutes; repeated attempts to get around a lock are one of the ways an account moves from the first category to the second.
How many X accounts can share one proxy address?
One is the safe answer. Two or three on one address look like one household, which stays plausible only while their behaviour stays ordinary. Beyond that, the accounts are linked by inference and they fail together rather than one at a time.
Should I use SOCKS5 or HTTP proxies for X?
Either works in a browser. SOCKS5 is cleaner for scripts because it carries any protocol, and the socks5h variant resolves DNS at the proxy instead of on your machine. HTTP proxies are easier to authenticate against and to debug. Whichever you pick, make sure DNS goes through it as well.
Why does X log me out when my proxy changes?
The session cookies were issued against a particular address and fingerprint. When the address shifts underneath them, X treats the token as possibly stolen and expires it. Sticky sessions that hold one address for days solve this; rotating pools cannot.
Can I use a proxy with the X mobile app?
The app has no proxy setting, so the only options are a system-wide VPN or a device-level proxy. Either routes everything on the handset, which is rarely what you want on a personal phone. Account work in a browser on a device you control is easier to keep separate.
Do I still need a proxy if I use the official X API?
No. API calls are authenticated per app and do not care where the request originates. Proxies only become relevant if you are spreading requests across addresses to stay inside a rate limit, which is a different problem from looking like a person.
How do I check that my proxy is actually working?
Load an IP-checking page through it and compare the address, country and network owner against what you ordered. Then check that DNS and WebRTC are not still resolving to your real connection. A proxy reporting the wrong country is worse than no proxy for account work.
Is running several X accounts against the rules?
Multiple accounts are permitted as long as they are not used to manipulate the platform through coordinated liking, following or posting. Each one needs its own contact details and its own behaviour. Rather than the proxy, coordination is usually what gets an account suspended.
How long should an X account stay on one address?
Weeks to months, ideally the life of the account. Move only when the address fails or is visibly burned, and move once, cleanly, inside the same country. Frequent small moves look worse than one deliberate relocation.
Other jobs people buy proxies for
- Web scraping
- SEO and rank tracking
- Ad verification
- Price monitoring
- Multi-account management
- Antidetect browsers
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