> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://help.blotato.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://help.blotato.com/settings/social-accounts.md). # Social accounts ## Blotato supports: * Linkedin personal account * Linkedin company page * Twitter, including threads * Threads, including threads * Bluesky, including threads * Youtube long videos * Youtube shorts * Instagram carousels * Instagram stories * Instagram posts * Instagram reels * Facebook pages * Facebook posts * Facebook reels * Facebook stories * Pinterest pins * Pinterest videos * Tiktok videos * Tiktok slideshows ## Warm Up New Accounts Before Connecting Blotato If your social account is brand new, you must warm it up manually **before** connecting it to Blotato (or any other 3rd party tool). This applies to **every platform** -- TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest, Threads, Bluesky, and X. Connecting a brand new account to automation is the fastest way to get shadowbanned or flagged as a bot. Warm-up looks like this: log in daily, scroll, like, comment, save, follow relevant accounts, and post 1 piece of content per day manually. **Minimum warm-up time before connecting Blotato:** * TikTok: 4 weeks * Pinterest: 2-3 weeks (then contact Sabrina to get validated) * Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Threads, Bluesky, X: 1-2 weeks Full warm-up guide: [Brand New Accounts (Warm-Up Guide)](https://help.blotato.com/platforms/tiktok/brand-new-accounts) ## Platform Posting Limits Certain platforms have stricter limits due to increased risk of spammers posting low-quality content. **Tiktok Posting Restrictions** * Your TikTok account must be warmed up for at least 4 weeks before connecting it. See the universal [warm-up guide](https://help.blotato.com/platforms/tiktok/brand-new-accounts) -- it applies to all platforms, with TikTok-specific timing. * On the **Starter plan**, you are limited to posting to 3 unique Tiktok accounts per 24 hour window, 10 posts per account. You may still connect more than 3 Tiktok accounts, but you can only post to 3 unique accounts in a 24-hour period. This is where the "900 TikTok uploads/month" on the pricing page comes from: 3 accounts x 10 posts/day x 30 days = 900/month. There is no monthly counter — the limit is enforced per day. This limit currently does NOT apply to the Creator plan or Agency plan. **Instagram Posting Restrictions** * Each Instagram account is limited to 50 posts per day, per 24 hour window. **Pinterest Posting Restrictions** * If your Pinterest is new, you must warm it up for 2-3 weeks manually before connecting to 3rd party tools like Blotato. Start posting 1 pin per day manually, then gradually ramp up to 2, then 3 pins per day. This is required because your Pinterest account will be shadowbanned if you start using automation too soon. You need to first prove to Pinterest that you're not a spam bot. Once your account reaches 100+ monthly views, reconnect it in Blotato and it verifies automatically. No manual verification request is needed. * All plans are limited to 10 pins/day per Pinterest account. So if you have 5 Pinterest accounts, then you can post 50 pins/day total. If your Pinterest account is well-established and you want to request a higher limit, contact Sabrina via in-app chat in the bottom right corner with your Pinterest account. **Facebook Posting Restrictions** * Facebook recommends up to 5 posts per day. The upper limit is 35 posts per 24 hours **per Facebook account**, not per Page. This is a Facebook-enforced rate limit on the parent Facebook user that authorized Blotato, so it counts every post across all Pages connected from that login. Example: if you have 3 Pages connected via the same Facebook login and each Page posts 12 times in 24 hours, you've made 36 posts on that account and will hit the limit even though no single Page exceeded 12. Posting above 5 per day per Page also negatively impacts the reach of your posts. **Youtube Posting Restrictions** * On a **Starter plan**, you are limited to 10 video uploads per channel per 24 hours via API. If you exceed this, you'll see: "You have reached the maximum number of 10 posts for the last 24 hours for this account." On a **Creator plan**, you are limited to 25 video uploads per channel per 24 hours via API. The upper limit is enforced by YouTube, not Blotato. * New channels have lower quotas and may hit limits sooner. * You can still upload videos directly via the Youtube website when the API limit is reached. *** ## Connect accounts To publish posts, you must connect your social media accounts. Go to to integrate each platform. :bulb: **IMPORTANT** * Log into the correct social account BEFORE connecting * For Facebook, select each Page individually, don't select "connect all pages" ## Connecting Multiple Accounts Per Platform You can connect multiple accounts for each social platform (e.g., multiple Instagram accounts, multiple TikTok accounts). You don't need a separate Blotato account for each -- connect them all under one Blotato login, up to your plan's limit (see [Account Limits](#account-limits) below). ### To add a second account (not replace your existing one): 1. Go to [Settings](https://my.blotato.com/settings) and click the "Login with \[Platform]" button 2. On the platform's login/consent screen, look for a button (often **3 dots** in the top corner) to switch to the second account, then select it The second account appears alongside your first account. Both remain connected. If the platform keeps logging into your first account, use an incognito window as a fallback: 1. Open an **incognito/private browser window** -- this prevents your browser's cached session from overwriting the existing connection 2. In the incognito window, log into the **second** social account on that platform 3. In the same incognito window, log into [Blotato](https://my.blotato.com) 4. Go to Settings > Social Accounts 5. Click the "Login with \[Platform]" button ### Why does connecting replace my account instead of adding it? Your browser remembers which social account you are logged into. When you click "Login with Instagram" in a regular browser window, the platform authenticates whichever account is active in that session -- which is often your first account. This reconnects the same account instead of adding a new one. Using an incognito window prevents this because it starts with no cached sessions. ### To reconnect (re-authorize) an existing account: 1. Go to Settings > Social Accounts 2. Find the account and click Reconnect 3. Approve the permissions when prompted ### Account Limits Each plan has a limit on the total number of connected social accounts across all platforms. Facebook Pages and LinkedIn Company Pages do not count toward this limit -- only the parent Facebook or LinkedIn account counts. | Plan | Connected social accounts | | ------- | ------------------------- | | Starter | 20 | | Creator | 40 | | Agency | 100 | If you hit the limit, first disconnect an account or upgrade your plan. For the full list of plan limits (upload size, scheduled posts, scheduling horizon), see [Plan Limits](/settings/billing-and-credits.md#plan-limits).
*** ## Security Blotato uses oauth2 for all platforms except Twitter which uses oauth1 for media uploads. All access tokens are securely stored in a secure database. Blotato only stores what you post through the Blotato app. API use is exclusively for posting new posts, not reading your social media data. *** ### Need help troubleshooting your connection?
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