Nearly 4 billion people use social media every single day to share pain points, ideas, inspiration, and of course cats. If you’re not tapping into this bottomless pit of information, you’re missing out on a treasure trove of data that could help your business reach new audiences, expand to new markets and physical locations, build better products, and improve internal and external relationships.
The possibilities are boundless, but the most important information comes from data about followers, competitors, types of posts, comments, likes, and more! You can find out what posts get the most shares and engagement, how many followers your competitors are targeting and what people are saying about your brand.
Proxies are necessary for web scraping, which allows you to collect data for social media analysis at scale. They also allow you to ethically and securely disguise your identity, making it possible for you to manage multiple social media accounts and automate your communication systems without running into bans.
Yes, for data center proxies we offer two ways to replace them. Every 30 days you can choose to have your proxy list refreshed automatically to a new set of IPs. Or you can replace individual IPs for free every month. Normally, your number of monthly replacements is equal to the total number of proxies you order, but we can create custom rotation plans on request.
Social media APIs are not as intensive as scraping. They will give you some information meant for marketing purposes, but are limited in their scope. Scraping the information with a proxy can gather any and all of the public information that you specify.