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Notes on warming up accounts
Written for people running clip accounts. No growth-hacking promises — just how these systems appear to work and what follows from that.
How TikTok's cold start actually works
What the algorithm knows about a brand-new account, why the first posts often land flat, and what actually changes that.
What a shadowban actually looks like
How to tell a real distribution restriction from an ordinary bad week — and why most suspected shadowbans are neither.
How proxies protect an account — and when they don't
What a proxy actually changes about how your account looks, the difference between residential and datacentre, and the mistake that makes them useless.
Cloud phones, emulators, and your actual phone
Three ways to run an account, what each looks like to the platform, and why the cheapest option is usually the most expensive.
What warming up can and cannot do
An honest scope for account warm-up: the problems it genuinely addresses, and the ones it has no effect on at all.