The number is decided by two limits, not by appetite for reach: how much one account survives, and how many channels you actually have to work in. The same arithmetic governs outreach in direct messages.
Why not one
How many accounts to run starts here: everything from a single account is a bet that nothing happens to it. Something does — a report, a restriction, a lost login — and at that moment all work stops. Recovery takes days or never: recovering a locked account.
There is a second reason. One name under every post across twenty channels becomes familiar within a week, and not in a good way.
Why not as many as possible
- Each costs money. The account plus its own proxy, every month — see proxies.
- Each needs warming. That is time before it earns anything: warming up accounts.
- More accounts than channels is worse than fewer. They start meeting under the same posts, and two comments from two of your names in one thread is the clearest possible signal of a scheme.
How to size it
Start from the channel list, not the other way round. The list splits between accounts without overlap, so the number of accounts is capped by how many live channels with open discussions you have. Build and clean the list first: building a channel list.
Load per account
Telegram does not publish limits and they depend on account age, so any exact figure you read is somebody's observation on their own accounts. What holds regardless: volume should grow gradually rather than start at maximum, and an older, settled account tolerates more than a fresh one.
That has a non-obvious consequence — accounts of different ages should not carry equal load. Splitting work evenly wears the young ones out fastest.
Different accounts, different faces
If all of them look the same, write the same way and appear in the same places, they associate with each other regardless of proxies. Different name, avatar, channel set and tone is part of the defence, not decoration — see the account fingerprint.
How Neurogram does this
Everything above is manual work that runs into the number of hours in a day. Neurogram does it on your own accounts and without you: it collects channels and audiences, writes comments and replies with a language model, and keeps limits and quiet hours so the accounts survive. See pricing or look at your case.