How to warm up a Threads account without burning it in the first week

In short: warmup is several sessions in a row in which the account behaves like an ordinary user. It scrolls the feed, likes posts now and then, and later starts to follow and comment. Start with likes: a session of 15–45 minutes and a like share of up to 30 %. Turn on follows (up to 10 %) and comments (up to 5 %) later, and leave posting and profile changes to the end. Warmup lowers the risk of restrictions but does not remove it.

A new account that changes its name, follows a hundred people and publishes a post on day one looks unnatural. Below is a warmup plan by stages. It gives exact values: the safe ranges Thredium marks and the default settings. Everything described was checked in the app. Warming up by hand works the same way — you just do it yourself.

Why warm up a Threads account

Warmup is needed before any noticeable activity:

• new accounts — they have no history, and a sharp start looks suspicious;
• bought accounts — you do not know their history, and with your proxy they get a new IP;
• accounts after a break or a proxy change — an account that moved to another proxy gets a new IP, and Threads may ask to confirm the sign-in.

Warmup does not restore blocked accounts and does not guarantee there will be no restrictions. The platform makes those decisions. The goal of warmup is to take sharp jumps out of the account's behaviour.

What you need before you start

1. Every account has its own proxy. Without proxies all accounts reach Threads from your computer's single IP, and they are easy to link. Keep 1–2 accounts on one proxy. Residential and mobile proxies suit Threads better than server ones. More in the guide Proxies for Threads accounts.
2. The proxy is set before the first sign-in. This matters most for bought accounts: if you change the proxy later, the IP changes again.
3. The account is Active. Do not run warmup on accounts with "Needs verification" or "Auth error": sign in to them again first. If Threads asks for a check, use manual sign-in.
4. A 2FA secret, if the account has two-factor protection. Without it the automatic sign-in fails. The import line format is login:pass:2FA_SECRET.
5. Do not check sign-ins too often. Threads notices frequent sign-ins too.

In Thredium, warmup is in the Starter, Scale and Pro plans. The free trial (1 day, 1 account) has no warmup — only posting and profile design.

What one warmup session does

Thredium runs one session on every chosen account. The account opens Threads in its own browser profile — with its own cookies and its own proxy — and:

1. Scrolls the feed. If interest topics are set, it first searches Threads for these topics and works with the posts it finds. It spends the last part of the session, about 20 % of the time, in the ordinary home feed.
2. Likes posts with the chosen probability, and only posts it has not liked yet.
3. Follows authors — if follows are on.
4. Leaves comments from your text variants — if comments are on.
5. Visits the profiles you listed at the end of the session — if you gave a list of usernames.

An action counts only when the app has seen its result on the page. So "Actions done" in a report are confirmed likes, follows and comments, not attempts to press a button.

The warmup plan by stages

How many days each stage takes depends on the account: whether it is new or bought and whether it has a history. Meta gives no exact terms. The Thredium team's guideline for a new account is 2–3 warmup sessions of 20–60 minutes before turning on posting. One rule never changes: move to the next stage only if the previous one had no sign-in errors and no checkpoints.

Stage 1. Only the feed and likes

This is how Thredium recommends starting: warm up new accounts with likes only for the first days.

At 30 % the account likes about every third post. Above 30 % Thredium shows a yellow warning, above 75 % a red one: that many likes in a row looks like a bot. At 0 % the account only scrolls the feed, which is also fine for the very first day.

The length for every account is picked at random inside the range, so accounts do not finish their sessions at the same time.

Stage 2. Interest topics and chosen profiles

Turn on "Use interest topics" and list 3–5 topics, separated by commas, close to what the account will write about. For example, for a coffee shop account in Odesa: "coffee, pastry, Odesa, breakfast". One session takes up to 4 topics. The feed's recommendations shift slowly towards them, while the organic feed stays.

Here you can also add the "Profiles by username" block — for example, your main account or partner accounts:

• one username per line; both @olena.kovalenko and a profile link work;
• up to 200 usernames per task and up to 1000 visits in total (accounts × usernames);
• "Browse the profile and like its posts" and "Posts to like per profile" — from 0 to 20. One profile gets up to 45 seconds, so there will be as many likes as the account manages in that time;
• "Follow the profile" is better turned on at the next stage, together with the other follows.

The profile phase runs at the end of the same session; it does not need a separate start.

Stage 3. Follows and comments

When the account passes sessions without errors, add engagement — one kind at a time:

Comments need at least one text variant. Variants are separated by a vertical bar, and inside them you can use braces, which are also picked anew for every comment:

`` Great shot|Agreed, {so|very} well put|Interesting thought, thanks ``

Write several variants: the same text under different posts looks like a mailing. You can add photos in JPG, PNG or WEBP — one random photo is attached to a comment. The "Minimum comments under post" filter keeps only posts where a discussion is already going; 0 turns the filter off.

In warmup, comments come from your templates. If you need replies that answer the post, there is a separate module — AI commenting.

Stage 4. The profile, then posting and AI commenting

Thredium advises against profile design — name, username, bio, photo, links — on the first day: warm the account up for a few days first. Then move on to posting and AI commenting.

In Settings → Warmup there is also the "Warm up accounts before any posting task." switch. Before publishing, the account scrolls the feed a little and likes a couple of posts; the posting itself does not change.

How to put warmup on a schedule

One long session a week is worse than regular short ones. The Schedule block on the Warmup page has two options:

• Once — a date and time;
• On weekdays — the ticked days at the same time. With all seven days ticked, the table says "Every day". For warmup, weekday mornings work well, for example.

What to know about schedules:

• a run uses the settings and accounts the page had when you created the schedule. To change shares or accounts, create a new schedule;
• the schedule follows your computer's clock. At that time the computer must be on and Thredium open. If the computer was asleep, the run is skipped, and you get "A scheduled run was missed" with a "Set a new time" button;
• turn on "Keep the computer awake while tasks run" (Settings → General). A closed laptop lid still puts the computer to sleep;
• do not put warmup and posting for the same accounts at the same time: an account runs one task at a time, and the other will wait.

More in the guide Scheduling and the Threads scheduler.

How to read the warmup result

While the task runs, the "Task progress" block shows "Completed", "Errors", "In progress", "Queued", "Partial" and "Actions done". After the task every account gets one result:

• completed — no errors, or more than 75 % of actions confirmed;
• partial — there were errors, but some likes, follows, comments or profile actions were confirmed;
• error — there were errors and not one confirmed action. Scrolling the feed without actions does not count as a result;
• skipped — for example, the account was busy in another task;
• stopped — the task was stopped with the Stop button.

The 75 % rule does not apply if the account got a ban, a checkpoint or lost its session. Such an account is "partial" or "error" even if the rest went well. The detailed course for every account is in Task logs: the eye button next to the task, then the result by account.

To learn about problems at once, connect Telegram notifications and turn on at least "Critical errors" and "Account bans".

Typical warmup mistakes

1. Everything on day one — likes, follows, comments, a new name and the first post. Turn actions on one at a time.
2. High shares "to go faster". The yellow and red marks in Thredium are there for a reason. Look at the results of the first run before raising the length or the shares.
3. Many accounts on one proxy. Keep 1–2. If a series of bans starts on a proxy, Thredium marks it "Unstable": most accounts on it got a ban or a checkpoint in 7 days. Replace such a proxy and spread its accounts over others.
4. Warming up accounts that wait for verification. Manual sign-in first, warmup after.
5. One comment text for all accounts. Use several variants and {…|…} braces.
6. A slow mobile proxy under load. If 3–4 accounts work on one mobile proxy at once, actions do not get confirmed in time. Set "At once on one proxy" to 1–2.

Frequently asked questions

How many days should I warm up a Threads account?

Threads has no official terms. Thredium advises likes only for the first days and adding follows, comments, profile changes and posting step by step while sessions pass without sign-in errors and checkpoints. For a new account, start with 2–3 sessions of 20–60 minutes.

Do bought accounts need warmup?

Yes. After buying, first give every account its own proxy, sign in and check the status. Warm them up before posting — that is the recommendation of the Thredium marketplace guide.

Can I warm up accounts without proxies?

Technically yes, but then all accounts go online from your computer's single IP, and only a limited number of browsers can work on that IP at once. Several accounts need proxies — one per 1–2 accounts.

Which values does Thredium consider safe?

Likes up to 30 %, follows up to 10 %, comments up to 5 %. Above these values the app shows a warning, and at 75 % likes, 25 % follows or 15 % comments a red mark.

Does warmup guarantee the account will not be blocked?

No. No tool can promise that. Warmup makes activity gradual, but Threads decides on restrictions. If an account does get restricted, see Common problems.

Can the same account warm up and post at the same time?

No: an account runs one task at a time. The second task skips it with "Account is busy in another task". If you need both, turn on "Warm up accounts before any posting task." — then a short warmup runs right before publishing.

Does an old account need warmup?

If the account has long been active and you are just connecting it to Thredium, heavy warmup is usually not needed: a short warmup now and then is enough if the account has not signed in for a while. But if the account got a new IP (a new proxy) or was silent for a long time, start with short sessions with likes.

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Try it on one account. Download Thredium, add a proxy and an account and run warmup with the stage 1 settings. Warmup is in every paid plan — from Starter at $29 a month (up to 30 accounts) — pricing.

Read also:

• Proxies for Threads accounts
• Account sign-in and statuses
• Guides: Warmup · Scheduling · Threads auto-posting