Account warming is a process of gradually building account trust on a platform through normal, human-like activity. Fresh accounts are flagged as suspicious — warmed accounts can perform significantly more operations without triggering anti-spam systems.
Typical 28-day warming plan for LinkedIn:
- Week 1: profile setup (photo, headline, experience), 5-10 connection requests/day to real people in industry, like 10-20 posts daily.
- Week 2: increase connection requests to 15-20/day, comments on posts (meaningful, 2-3 daily), 1 own post.
- Week 3: full activity — 20-30 connections, 5+ comments, own posts 2-3/week, DMs to new connections.
- Week 4: stabilization at max safe rate, can start automation if everything is OK.
Pitfalls: warming MUST be human-paced. Bots doing 50 connection requests from day 1 get banned in <48h. Each platform has its own rhythm — Twitter is faster, LinkedIn very conservative.
Infrastructure: account warming requires dedicated residential proxy (consistent IP), unique browser fingerprint per account, no overlap. See our article on warming infra.