Why residential IPs and geo targeting help
Social platforms personalize almost everything by location: trending topics, suggested content, which local creators appear, and which public promotions surface in a feed. When every request comes from one office network, your view of what is trending reflects that single place instead of the markets you actually want to understand.
Residential proxies send your requests through real consumer devices, so a page loads the way it would for an ordinary user in the target region. Because Nefo offers country-level targeting across 227 countries and territories, plus city and state targeting in most countries, you can align your observations with the exact geography you are studying rather than inferring it from one vantage point.
Which Nefo features fit
Rotating sessions assign a new IP per request, which suits high-volume, stateless reads of public content where each request stands on its own. Sticky sessions hold the same IP for up to roughly 24 hours, which is better when a task moves through several steps and you want a consistent regional vantage point throughout.
Both HTTPS and SOCKS5 are available on every plan, so Nefo fits a browser, a headless tool, or your own collection scripts. City and state targeting is available in most countries, more than 22,000 cities in all, with country-level targeting available everywhere.
Staying within platform terms
Social media analytics on Nefo is about observing public content, the posts, hashtags, and trends anyone can already see, not about interacting with platforms in ways their rules forbid. Respect each platform's terms of service, honor robots directives where they apply, keep request rates reasonable, and follow the laws that govern the data you handle, including rules on personal information.
Do not use proxies to create or operate fake accounts, automate likes, follows, or comments, manufacture artificial engagement, or collect private or non-public data. Those activities are prohibited under our Acceptable Use Policy. Keeping your work to public, aggregate observation keeps it both compliant and genuinely useful.
How to start from 5 GB
Bandwidth is pay-as-you-go and starts from 5 GB ($4.50, or $0.90/GB), so you can scope a small pilot before committing to a larger study. You buy the amount of data you need and it does not expire, so unused GB stay available for the next project.
Every plan includes a dashboard with usage analytics and API access, plus fast human support when you need it. You can pay by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, Alipay, Binance Pay or crypto. Generate credentials, choose your target region and session type, then point your tool at the endpoint to begin.
Frequently asked questions
You may observe and collect publicly available social content when it complies with the platform's terms and applicable law. Fake accounts, automated engagement and scraping private data are not allowed. See the acceptable use policy.
Use rotating sessions for high-volume, independent reads of public content. Use sticky sessions when a task runs through several steps and you want the same regional IP held, for up to 24 hours.
Yes, in most countries: 22,417 cities in all, plus regions and ISPs. Everywhere else you can target at country level across 227 countries and territories.
HTTPS suits browsers and most tools, and SOCKS5 is available for lower-level or non-HTTP traffic. Both work on residential proxies, so choose what fits your stack.
No. Bandwidth starts at 5 GB for $4.50 ($0.90/GB) and never expires, so unused GB are available for the next project. Larger plans cost less per GB, down to $0.53/GB at 10 TB.