Getting Banned

[cardine 0]

I've created a couple of auto-posting scripts for different social media sites and have found that they usually last only around 1-2 posts before getting banned. I've tried a whole bunch of different things (adding extra delays in the script, having it navigate to other random pages, etc.) but the accounts I am running are still getting automatically banned pretty quickly.

 

Does anybody have some insights as to what is probably tipping off MySpace/Facebook/Twitter that I am using a bot? If you don't want to post, you can PM me.

[Guest turbolapp]

I assume you use proxies or some other method of utilizing multiple IPs?

[alcr 135]

Proxies should do the trick, hopefully.

[cardine 0]

I am using proxies.

 

Generally when I have a bot post the messages it lasts around 2-3 posts, and when I do it manually I usually get around 20 messages before a captcha, and then get banned after another 10 or so messages.

 

So I feel like there is something else alerting the system that it I am using a bot, as under the same IP's my manual messaging lasts a lot longer than when uBot does it.

[Guest turbolapp]

It could be the speed of the bot. There's been some speculation that speed is what triggers the Gmail SMS, for instance and NOT necessarily ips. I know that to this day if I try one of my bots on gmail it will trigger the SMS but I can use the same IP to create multiple accounts if I do it manually and spread it out (over days) so since I did both on the same IP (for testing purposes) it leads me to believe google would factor in speed.

 

When making my bots I try to make it as human as possible. Think about what you do when you fill out a form. How fast do you go? (add in some delays between each field) Do you go straight down the page? (I don't sometimes I jump around and then scroll up and down) have the bot fill out a form wrong on purpose and submit it (I know I do that all the time manually, I miss a field or enter in wrong captcha...etc) I don't know if this will work or not with the big guns like google but it's worth a shot. And good to keep in mind anyways when your creating your bots.