u/Then-9999

I think I accidentally learned something about starting a new Threads account the hard way

I've been posting on my main Threads account for about 2.5 months, so I wanted to see what would happen if I started a completely fresh account and approached it differently.

I kept seeing bigger accounts posting a LOT every day.

So I thought:

“Maybe that's actually how you grow on Threads?”

I made a new account and scheduled 15 posts on day one.

I didn't spend the whole day posting manually. I batch-pasted everything into my scheduler, left, and went back to my normal life.

The next morning:

One post had passed 1.6K views.

A bunch were between 100–500.

For a brand new account, I was shocked.

Then I shared the experiment on Reddit.

Several people immediately told me:

“that account is going to get banned.”

I thought they were being dramatic 😂

But a few people said they'd experienced something similar new accounts posting heavily, suddenly getting 1K+ views, then getting banned shortly after.

Then it happened to me.

The next morning Threads asked me to verify my phone number.

I requested the SMS.

Nothing.

Requested another code.

Still nothing.

Then I checked from my main account.

The new account wasn't even showing up anymore.

Experiment over

Now, I obviously can't say:

15 posts = ban.

I don't know that.

Someone even told me they'd posted 6 times on day one and 12 after that with no problem.

So there are clearly other things going on.

But if you're brand new to Threads, here's what I'd personally do differently:

• Don't immediately copy the posting volume of huge established accounts
• Start with a normal posting rhythm
• Actually interact with real people
• Let the account build some history naturally
• Experiment gradually instead of changing everything at once

The biggest thing I learned:

Don't assume what works for a huge account will work the same way for a brand-new one.

I got excited because the reach looked great

and then I lost the account

If you're going to experiment, maybe don't use your main account as the test subject

Update on my accidental Threads experiment:

the second account got banned 😂

Literally everyone who saw my last post told me this was going to happen.

I was like “nahhh, surely not”

Well you were right 😂

I woke up today and the account was gone

So I guess the experiment ended faster than expected

I got so tired of thinking about what to post on Threads every single day that I accidentally ran an experiment 😂

I've been posting on my main account for a little over 2 months, and most of my posts were getting around 100–200 views.

Every day I'd be thinking:

“what should I post today?”
“maybe this hook?”
“maybe I should make it shorter?”
“maybe this topic will do better?”

Eventually I just got tired of it.

So I made a second account and yesterday I took 10 posts, batch-pasted them into a scheduling tool, and basically forgot about them.

Today I opened the account just to reply to one or two people.

And then I noticed the reach.

500 views.
800.
1k.
And one post passed 1.6k.

Meanwhile my main account was still doing its usual 100–200 views 😂

I genuinely wasn't even trying to grow that account.

Now I'm sitting here wondering if I've been overthinking Threads this entire time.

Anyone here actually using threads seriously for growth? what your workflow looks like because posting consistently there still feels oddly manual compared to X/Twitter,Are you just posting manually every day or using some kind of tool/workaround?

I made a Bluesky account to build an unfollower tracker in public.

Today I sent "hey" to two people who already followed me. No link. No pitch. Just "hey".

Now my DMs are disabled.

When I try to appeal, it just says "failed to send request".

I emailed support but no reply yet.

Has anyone dealt with this? Is there a way to actually fix it or reach a human?

I'm just trying to build here 😭

I’ve been trying to understand something lately.

A lot of people think the hardest part of outreach is sending the first message.

But honestly I don’t think that’s the real problem anymore.

Sometimes people don’t reply at all.

Sometimes they reply once and the conversation dies right after.

Sometimes you don’t know what to ask next.
Or how to keep the conversation natural without sounding pushy, awkward, or salesy.

And sometimes you realize too late that you never actually got the information you needed in the first place.

I’ve been studying real outreach conversations recently, and I’m noticing that a lot of people struggle with:

• first messages that feel too generic
• overexplaining too early
• follow-ups that feel forced
• conversations losing momentum after the first reply
• not knowing how to guide the conversation naturally

So I want to try something:

If you have an outreach conversation that went nowhere (cold DMs, validation chats, client outreach, whatever), send it to me.

I’ll try to break down:

• where the conversation started failing
• what might’ve felt off from the other side
• and what I would’ve done differently

Free obviously.

I’m mainly trying to learn patterns from real conversations because I think this problem is way more common than people admit.

I’ve been trying to understand something lately.

A lot of people think the hardest part of outreach is sending the first message.

But honestly… I don’t think that’s the real problem anymore.

Sometimes people don’t reply at all.

Sometimes they reply once and the conversation dies right after.

Sometimes you don’t know what to ask next.
Or how to keep the conversation natural without sounding pushy, awkward, or salesy.

And sometimes you realize too late that you never actually got the information you needed in the first place.

I’ve been studying real outreach conversations recently, and I’m noticing that a lot of people struggle with:

• first messages that feel too generic
• overexplaining too early
• follow-ups that feel forced
• conversations losing momentum after the first reply
• not knowing how to guide the conversation naturally

So I want to try something:

If you have an outreach conversation that went nowhere (cold DMs, validation chats, client outreach, whatever), send it to me.

I’ll try to break down:

• where the conversation started failing
• what might’ve felt off from the other side
• and what I would’ve done differently

Free obviously.

I’m mainly trying to learn patterns from real conversations because I think this problem is way more common than people admit.