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Updated on May 8, 2025

Best Proxy Services for Twitter: No Captchas or Bans [2025]

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We evaluated the top proxy service providers using 30 million requests in our enterprise proxy benchmark. We also used proxies for X.com (formerly Twitter) to assess their performance across various use cases and scales.

The Best Twitter Proxy Providers of 2025

Last Updated at 05-08-2025
VendorsRatingUnblockerMonthly priceFree trial
Bright Data4.8 out of 265 reviews$499 (138 GB)

7 days

Decodo4.6 out of 189 reviews$6 (2 GB)3 days
NetNut4.9 out of 146 reviews$99 (28 GB)

7 days

Webshare4.8 out of 2 reviews$7 (1 GB)10 free DC IPs
IPRoyal4.6 out of 109 reviews$12 (2 GB)
IPBurger5.0 out of 3 reviews$79 (7 GB)
Proxy-storeN/A$18 (1 GB)Free proxy list

The list is sorted in descending order based on the largest number of reviews, except for the products of the article’s sponsors, which are linked to sponsor websites.

Table components:

  • Rating: B2B platforms such as Capterra and G2.
  • Unblocker: Method to access blocked websites using techniques including JavaScript rendering, automatic proxy management, browser fingerprinting, and automatic retry features.
  • Monthly price: The minimum cost of a residential proxy plan.

Recommendations based on our benchmark

1. Collecting X data at a low rate (a few pages per minute):

  • Proxies: Use datacenter proxies since they are the cheapest.
  • Notes: When we scraped 20 pages, we didn’t have any issues, but for large-scale usage, datacenter proxies may be blocked.

2. Collecting X data at scale:

There are two possible approaches:

  • Proxies: To minimize costs, start with datacenter proxies. After a while, however, they may fail to return responses. Then, switch to residential, mobile, or ISP proxies.
  • Leverage Twitter scrapers. Scraper providers collect Twitter data in advance and make it available to their users via an API. Therefore, scrapers can provide Twitter (X) data at scale, but
    • Data may not be as fresh as data gathered via a proxy.
    • Scrapers typically require ~$500/month subscriptions.
    Managing a few expendable accounts:
  • Tools: It can be done without proxies or anti-detect browsers. However, using proxies without anti-detect browsers did not overcome the challenges in our tests.
  • Challenges: Your account can be blocked. (Figure 1).

Figure 1: Being flagged for suspicious activity

  1. Managing multiple valuable accounts
    • Tools: Using anti-detection browsers with proxies helps change the browser fingerprint and user agent, reducing detection risks. This approach better simulates real user interactions. However, if unusual activity is detected, manual authentication is required.

The Best 7 Twitter Proxies

Bright Data provides residential and ISP proxies that can be seamlessly integrated with scraping tools to access Twitter. ISP proxies support dedicated static IP allocation, and the residential proxy network consists of shared IPs. City, ASN, and ZIP code level targeting is supported with rotating residential proxies, but unavailable for ISP proxies. Because the ISP IP pool is smaller than the residential proxy pool, ISP proxies are less suitable for managing a high volume of simultaneous requests.

By default, Bright Data proxies automatically rotate IPs for each request. You can also rotate the IP addresses manually by using the Proxy Manager or implementing custom logic in your application.

Pricing starts from (mo):

  • Residential: $3.5/GB
  • ISP: $15/GB
  • Free trial: 7-day trial
Sign up for Bright Data proxies and get a deposit match up to $500.

You can access Twitter with all the proxy services provided by Decodo. Its residential proxy network consists of a shared pool of IPs. Decodo’s Twitter proxy pool is compatible with major Twitter bots, including Follow Liker, Socialoomph, and WhiteHatBox. Targeting by ZIP code is available within the USA when using the residential proxy network.

Pricing starts from (mo):

  • Residential: $3.5 /GB
  • ISP: $14
  • Free trial: 3-day
Get 50% off Decodo residential proxies — use code RESI50.

NetNut offers shared rotating and static proxy solutions for Twitter and other social media platforms. The provider offers city and state proxy targeting for the U.S. only.

Pricing starts from (mo):

  • Residential: $3.53/GB
  • ISP: $14.4
  • Free trial: 7-day

Webshare offers both shared residential proxies and static residential proxies in various types: dedicated (assigned exclusively to you), private (shared with one other user), and shared (accessible by multiple users).

Pricing starts from (mo):

  • Residential: $7 /GB
  • ISP: $0.3 /IP
  • Free trial: 10 free datacenter IPs

IPRoyal offers residential proxies for Twitter with city and state targeting. The proxy pool assigns a new IP address per request or session. You can also use its ISP proxies for Twitter automation. Rotating residential proxies are compatible with the SOCKS5 protocol, whereas ISP proxies are not.

Residential proxies do not offer unlimited bandwidth. Additionally, you can access the full range of residential IPs within the network, but this is not available with the ISP proxy pool.

Pricing starts from (mo):

  • Residential: $5.95/GB
  • ISP: $2.4/IP

IPBurger offers rotating residential Twitter proxies compatible with major Twitter bots and social media marketing tools. It also supports state- and city-level targeting.

Pricing starts from (mo):

  • Residential: $11.29/GB
  • ISP: $14.41/GB

Proxy-Store offers residential proxies from seven countries, including the USA, UK, and Germany. The service allows individuals to rent IPs, with a minimum rental period of five days.

Pricing starts from:

  • Residential: $18/GB

How do Twitter proxies work?

Twitter proxies are a gateway between the client requesting and the destination server providing the requested information. Here’s an overview of how the process typically works:

  1. The client directs the request to the Twitter proxy server instead of directly connecting the user to the target platform.
  2. The connection request first goes to the proxy; the proxy server replaces the client’s IP address before forwarding it to the destination site.
  3. Twitter proxy then forwards the client’s request to Twitter’s servers.
  4. Twitter’s servers provide the requested information to the proxy server.
  5. The proxy server forwards Twitter’s response back to the client machine.

Why do you need to use proxies for Twitter?

Users need Twitter (X) proxies to manage multiple Twitter accounts, verify location-based ads, view tweets from different locations, and collect social media data.

  1. Multiple Twitter accounts management: Managing various accounts for different products, clients, and marketing campaigns can be complex. If you need to manage more than one Twitter account, proxies can help you manage multiple accounts by overcoming Twitter’s geo-restrictions and rate limits. Web scraping challenges often arise due to platform restrictions. For instance, if you send a request from an IP address associated with Twitter, the platform may flag it as spam, potentially blocking further access.
  2. Ad verification: Social media marketers target ads based on geographical location. Using a proxy located in the target region, they can ensure that their ads are displayed to the right audience without revealing their location.
  3. Twitter data scraping: Twitter scraping is the process of extracting public data from Twitter using a Twitter scraper, including user profiles, trending topics, and hashtags. Twitter has measures to prevent bots from manipulating content, like spamming and spreading disinformation. Twitter proxies allow users to access and scrape data from the platform while maintaining anonymity.
  4. Location-based trend tracking: Trending topics on Twitter can vary by region. Monitoring location-based Twitter trends enables social media marketers to conduct local sentiment analysis and develop a localized advertising strategy. Twitter proxies help marketers monitor and analyze Twitter trends specific to a particular geographical region.
  5. Testing applications: Developers can use proxies to properly validate Twitter-based applications’ performance under different conditions and user scenarios. Twitter proxies allow developers to simulate users connecting from various locations to ensure applications work as intended in other places.

Best practices for using Twitter proxies

Apart from the advantages of using proxies for Twitter, it is crucial to use proxy servers responsibly, adhering to web scraping ethics by respecting privacy rules, platform terms of service, and legal guidelines. Here are some best practices for using proxies for Twitter ethically and responsibly:

  • Choose a reliable Twitter proxy provider: Ensure you choose a Twitter proxy provider with a solid reputation in the market. You can check out customer reviews on independent review platforms.
  • Use unblockers if your proxy gets blocked: Without a web unblocker, even residential proxies may struggle to scrape websites.
  • Be prepared for some of your connection attempts to fail: Despite vendors’ claims of near 100% success rates, residential proxies can be blocked 10-20% of the time on high-traffic sites.
  • Comply with Twitter’s terms of service: Twitter outlines the rules and guidelines that users agree to follow to use the platform in its terms of service. Before using a proxy server for Twitter, it is essential to understand and comply with Twitter’s Terms of Service.
  • Don’t use proxies for illegal activities: Misuse of proxies for unethical or unlawful purposes, such as distributing copyrighted material or bypassing country-specific embargoes, has severe legal consequences.

FAQ

What are alternatives to Twitter proxies?

Alternatives depend on the use case.
Data collection: X (Twitter) is a valuable source of real-time data however its API has only 2 levels with public prices excluding a free test level. Access is priced at $5k/month to receive 1M posts, pricing a post at 0.5¢.1 Proxy providers can provide improved pricing and more flexibility.

What are types of Twitter proxies?

Twitter proxies can be categorized into datacenter, ISP, or mobile proxies. However, the success rate of these proxies may be lower than residential proxies. These proxies are particularly effective for social media data collection as they mimic real user behavior.

What are Twitter proxies?

Twitter proxy is a server application that is an intermediary between a client’s machine and Twitter. Instead of connecting the client directly to the target website, the Twitter proxy server forwards the connection request to Twitter. The proxy server then receives the platform’s response on the client’s behalf.

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Sedat is a technology and information security leader with experience in software development, web data collection and cybersecurity. Sedat:
- Has ⁠20 years of experience as a white-hat hacker and development guru, with extensive expertise in programming languages and server architectures.
- Is an advisor to C-level executives and board members of corporations with high-traffic and mission-critical technology operations like payment infrastructure.
- ⁠Has extensive business acumen alongside his technical expertise.
Gülbahar is an AIMultiple industry analyst focused on web data collection, applications of web data and application security.

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