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My AI now scrolls Threads, LinkedIn, Mastodon and Bluesky

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Last time my browsing agents warmed up TikTok, Instagram and YouTube. This time they browse the text platforms: Mastodon, Bluesky, LinkedIn and Threads. The setup is the same. One persona is shared by every platform plugin, and a screenshot of each post goes to the Decisions API, which picks skip, watch, like, read the comments or visit the creator. Text feeds work differently from short video, though. There are several posts on screen, a post scrolled to the top counts as interest, and likes matter more. Then I run four accounts at the same time, give each profile its own proxy and cookies, and save every post they read on my computer to spot trends and keywords for my products. Chapters 0:00 An AI that scrolls Threads like me 0:21 From video to text platforms 1:10 Why text platforms: extra reach 1:52 Browse first, so I don't look like a bot 2:52 One persona for every platform 3:55 Session settings 5:05 A feed of posts, not one video 6:24 Threads demo 8:19 Screenshot, decide, act, scroll 9:09 Four accounts at the same time 11:09 Many profiles on one platform 12:04 Saving every post it reads 13:23 Recap 14:19 Daily X keywords and finding customers 15:54 Your turn Questions or suggestions? Tell me in the comments. bmux: https://bmux.cc #BuildInPublic #AIAgents #Threads #IndieHacker

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But as you can see it simulates this kind of real person who is reading the feed, clicking on comments sometimes liking sometimes just reading it and okay hello everyone and welcome to the next iteration of our social media automation so last time we finished with the UGC social media browsing so for YouTube Instagram and TikTok and today we are continuing to text based social media platforms like Mastodon, Bluesky, LinkedIn and and Threads and also X and Reddit but for our demo we will show these four platforms that I have on the screen but I currently, because my X and Reddit I'm doing manually and I don't need any warm -up there at the current time Then so why I wanted to browse text based social media platforms as well it's simple it's just for extra reach UGC platforms are popular but if you look at the social media platforms like LinkedIn especially and especially X then you can go very viral there and get more viewers to your product. as well at least here they are bringing forward you can see that post gets 2k and 83 likes here so it can be useful to create the presence on these platforms as well but what am I doing with the automation the at first the same thing that I was doing in the video platforms suggest browsing first before scheduling my posts so I don't come off as a bot user in this for these platforms. come off as a normal person who is just participating in the conversations and and liking posts following people and and once in a while posting their own content as well. So this comes off as a real person that these platforms like but of course if you are running four to six of these platforms together and you're supposed to develop your product as well then it comes very difficult to manage your time and and keep enough time for to focus on each of these platforms so that's why we need automation so let's have a look then what i have set up here start with threads for example i i have the same plugins here but the yeah different ones for each of the platforms so for Bluesky LinkedIn mastodon threads x let's look at LinkedIn settings we have the browse feed again here and we have our browsing profile which is the default one so we have some also I set up shared settings so for all of our platforms we can use the same profile here and the profile then includes my persona I said I'm an indie hacker I'm interested in technology in following the tools and building software and and seeking new trends in AI and and computers hints to the Decisions API when to read comments and when to visit creators as well and also the AI source whether I'm using bmux subscription or my personal API key and also whether I record the posts that the automation process so this is I will talk about this a bit later but this is important as well because in the end you probably want to observe what your automation has done and make decisions on how to improve them. otherwise the browsing of the feed it's similar settings as for the video one so we can set the duration and auto scroll and to fast scrolling and decide how long we watch. yeah and use AI to make the decisions on whether to interact or not can also configure whether we read comments, visit creators, notifications so check your own profile as well how much interactions we have per day so how many likes and profile views and so on so what's different on the for the X is that for the UGC you have a single video but in X I will take the first text based example you have multiple posts in a row so here it's a little bit different so we will do it like we scroll each post to the top level and that is our indicator that we are interested in this post also we want to include more likes compared to UGC platforms that also detect more of your swiping speed because I think X and other this kind of social platforms so you feed more according to your likes and the interactions with the post compared to UGC where the algorithm trains by your swiping only and otherwise the posts are still sent to the Decisions API and another different thing that who make it faster is that since we have multiple posts on the screen then we send multiple posts to the Decisions API at the same time so if you scroll up the next post and it will be acted upon faster and that's some Japanese post this one is about the excavator so this is interested in a technological post it said like read comments visit creator so triple interest for this post but at first it watches it so that's good it trains the algorithm that we are interested in this kind of topic let's browse Threads and let's see what what decisions the AI is making it will watch this one about the cameras it will also watch building in public where there's a screenshot of a computer screen It got to an interesting post about someone posting their old Intel computer and went to comment straight away. It also has the like here. It went back. like so didn't decide to like. But as you can see it simulates this kind of real person who is reading the feed, clicking on comments sometimes liking sometimes just reading it and like doing the brief watch here but not deciding to like or interact with the post next one skip because it already we already saw this post before and then when the interesting post comes up then watch it briefly for seven seconds and and then do an interaction as well let's see what it decides this time it looks at the comments again can imagine we could build writing comments as well oh and now it also decided to check the profile as well so it went to the profile for a second and now it will continue scrolling and all all the while you can see the automation is evaluating the page making screen shots sending this screenshot to Decisions API then the Decisions API will decide to like or read comments then it will the automation will do it with delays and then it will continue scrolling to next posts and it's quite amazing if you look at it it's doing it quite fast because the AI decision the Decisions API takes like 50 milliseconds or so so I think the main delay is when I'm taking the screenshot and then transferring the screenshot to the server so the network delay is probably the biggest one so I think it's great and it shows the feed browsing here next thing I wanted to show you is actually where it where it really shines and this is the multi -account automation because if you can imagine it's not very useful if I'm sitting here and watching what the agent is doing so I want it to be completely automated and for this I have four different profiles open here and I have the script to start browsing on all of them together You can see that the plugins were opened. okay so we got the four plugins running now and as you can see they're all browsing here are all zoomed out as you can see I can zoom out some more and and then move the you see that it's scrolling it says watch 71 % and it's watching now we can also zoom in to get a better view and zoom into the to the stream itself and the other other three browsers are still active in the background but we can just zoom into this one and see what's going on here so this one it decided a brief watch my profile is the same for all of these platforms this is a technological tweet so it's a correct vision to keep watching it this one was like a cake picture so that is always not relevant this one might be more relevant no okay from the threads the AI obviously needs some training still because I just started this account so this is the warm -up process here when I get more of these generic profiles about home improvement and skin care but we still get some tech posts here and we get a brief watch and like here so we can start improving our algorithm one thing is automating multiple platforms and a separate thing is then also automating multiple profiles for the same platform and for this bmux has the connections and and sessions available so so so and profiles so you profiles different profiles you can imagine you can make your TikTok 1, TikTok 2, TikTok 3 profiles and then assign a different proxy for each of them and so the data will come from different locations and from different profiles here that have different cookies and this way the platform or the TikTok will not have a way to understand where the requests are coming from and you can run multiple of the accounts in parallel for the same platform. As the final thing what I'm using this browsing for is just storing all of the information in my local computer so you can see are browsing Mastodon here and it's 3 .24 and you can see that I'm storing all of the posts that I see on Mastodon to my local computer as well, both in JPEG format and MD format for easier reading. so I'm doing this to first discover new trends and ideas on the online that are currently popular so this I can use to improve my products, capture keywords so you can imagine I can stream this post data to my database and capture keywords that are relevant to my own products and and and otherwise just capture trends to listen what people are talking about and then potentially build new apps out of it I think this is very useful as well because when you're building apps then sometimes you're just out of ideas you don't know what people are actually interested in what are they talking about so this can help a this is what I wanted to show you today is the next version of my social media automation where besides browsing the UGC platforms I am now browsing different text based platforms as well initial idea was the same that to warm up my accounts and and then be then simulate myself as a more believable human person to kind of cheat the algorithm a little bit and not get soft banned as just a scheduling account but actually be elevated as a real person and then hopefully the algorithm will suggest us for other people to view. but I personally plan on using it for and I already set it up daily X browsing and then searching for keywords for my projects that I have available for example the Trend Seeker app searching or monitoring daily on X for keywords like validate business idea, new trends, app ideas, what are good businesses. So these kind of keywords and then I can go in and comment on these posts and actually the AI will already generate replies for me. So I can just go to the post and check the AI reply and modify it a a bit or write a completely new reply because the AI generated ones are not very good and currently and here comes in the idea then to feed it the data from the automated browsing to generate better replies for the queries that are relevant for me and the topics and the conversations that are relevant to my product that I want to promote here and hopefully this will work well I already used it today and wrote a direct message on Reddit to one person and I linked to my website and he actually replied to me and so so this is a good way to find customers for our online businesses Okay thanks for watching if you have any questions or suggestions then let me know in the comments I'm always interested. Don't forget to like and subscribe and see you in the next one bye