Account warming

Fresh TikTok accounts that immediately start posting look like bots. Warming fixes that. Pamba browses TikTok and Instagram on the account's phone like a person would (watching, scrolling, searching your niche), before and between posts, so the account reads as a real person and its feed moves toward your niche. Warming runs by itself on every account on a Pamba phone, and Pamba sets its pace.

How it works

• •Session queue: warming sessions are scheduled automatically and listed with status: pending, in progress, completed, failed, cancelled.
• •Search terms: an account's search terms steer what its warming looks for. An account with no avatar has its own on its page; an account linked to an avatar takes the avatar's, set on the avatar's page (Accounts tab, Warming card), where a change applies to all of the avatar's accounts, shared ones included. Until you set terms of your own, warming uses terms suggested from your workspace niche.
• •A niche of its own: warming moves every account's feed toward your workspace niche (Content niche in Workspace Settings). When the accounts of one workspace are in different niches, give an account its own: clicking the niche on the Content niche row of its Warming card sets it, on the page of an account that belongs to no avatar, and on an avatar's page (Accounts tab, Warming card) for all of the avatar's accounts, shared ones included, and one linked to it later that no other avatar links. "Use workspace niche" goes back. A niche of its own doesn't change the search terms: tick "Generate new search terms from this niche" when you save it and Pamba writes terms for that niche and puts them in place of the current ones, or add terms that match it yourself. When an admin changes the workspace niche while some accounts or avatars have their own, Pamba asks whether they keep theirs or move to the new one. The assistant does the same, and so does the API: PUT /devices/accounts/warming with niche or use_workspace_niche (and generate_search_terms to write terms for the niche), PUT /avatars/projects/{projectId}/selected-avatar with warming_niche (and generate_warming_search_terms), GET /devices/accounts/warming-niches to list the ones with their own, and PATCH /workspaces/{workspaceId} with own_niches (keep, the default, or replace).
• •Terms the apps won't search: TikTok and Instagram show no results for searches with "porn", so a term with that word is refused when you save it. When TikTok tells the phone the phrase may break its guidelines, Pamba takes the term out at once. A "No results found" on either app takes nothing out: it can mean the topic has few videos or the account gets no search results yet, so the Pamba team checks it instead. A removed term leaves the account's or avatar's terms and the workspace's suggested terms. You get an item on Home at once and, about two hours later, an email naming it (unless you turned off account and credits emails).
• •A creator's handle as a search term: works on both apps. On Instagram a small creator's handle often brings up only their account, so warming watches that account's own Reels.
• •Session review: the account's Activity card shows each session's status, length, what it did (videos watched, likes, comment reads, creators followed, the search term) and sample screenshots, with a link to the full set; each finished follow request lists who was followed; each post, each daily health check and each comment or reply the account posted shows the phone's screenshots the same way, and profile edits sit in the same feed, newest first. An account with no avatar carries the card on its own page; an account assigned to an avatar opens it from the Activity action on its row in the avatar's Accounts tab. A cancelled session was stopped before or while it ran: most often a post or a new account's setup took the phone and the session was re-booked; otherwise the account was paused, reassigned or taken off the phone, it was cancelled by hand, the phone was cleared for maintenance, or it came due late after maintenance or a restart, or while a new account was being set up on its phone, and the phone had no room left that day. One stopped mid-run still shows what it got through.
• •Cancel and retry: stop pending sessions or retry failed ones.
• •Workspace defaults: Settings → Workspace Settings → Account warming has the workspace's defaults for both switches, which a new avatar and a new TikTok or Instagram account with no avatar start with; an account added to an avatar takes that avatar's setting. When a workspace admin changes one, Pamba asks whether to change it for every existing account and avatar too or only for new ones. Use it, for example, to stop all your accounts following anyone when they are your own and you choose who they follow. The assistant and the API (PUT /workspaces/{workspaceId}/account-warming) do the same. Warming keeps running either way, and follow lists are separate and keep working.
• •Turning one account's searches or follows off: each account has two switches of its own, which start at the workspace's defaults (above), both on unless an admin changed them. With searches off, its warming sessions never search and browse the feed only; its search terms are kept for when you turn searches back on. With follows off, its sessions follow no one. Where the search terms are, the switches are: on the page of an account that belongs to no avatar, and on an avatar's page (Accounts tab, Warming card) for the accounts linked to it, where a change applies to all of the avatar's accounts, shared ones included, and to an account linked to it later that no other avatar links. "Search while warming" sits on the search terms (the terms can be edited only while it is on) and "Follow creators while warming" below them. You can also ask the assistant, or use the API (PUT /devices/accounts/warming with searches_enabled and follows_enabled for one account, PUT /avatars/projects/{projectId}/selected-avatar with warming_searches_enabled and warming_follows_enabled for an avatar's accounts). Warming keeps running either way, from the account's next session.
• •No search terms for one account or avatar: removing every term from an account's or avatar's search terms leaves it with none, and its warming doesn't search. The terms you removed don't come back. "Use suggested terms" brings back the terms suggested from your niche after you cleared the list.

Within the platforms' norms

Warming stays within TikTok's and Instagram's norms for a real person's use. Ads and creators who look under 18 are never liked or followed. Posts and account setup take priority: a scheduled post can displace a warming session on the same phone, and a new account being set up on that phone takes the phone from a session that has not started or is running. A displaced session is re-booked. A session that comes due while a new account is being set up on its phone moves to after the setup, or is skipped that day when the warming hours have no room left for it.