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A Practical Overview - OpenClaw Social Media Posting
Connect your accounts, generate an API key, add the skill, and publish to nine networks from a chat window. Six setup steps, with the gotchas called out.
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Instagram Caption Tips: Practical Guide
Prompts do the drafting; you keep the voice. Seven AI caption writing tips covering hooks, story arcs, emoji placement, and calls to action.
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Useful Context - Best AI Tool to Schedule Social Media Posts
Seven steps from calendar to queue, plus what to check in a social post scheduler UK teams use daily: time zones, approvals, and platform coverage.
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Publish to Pages With a Meta Muse Connector for Facebook Posting
Facebook Pages are addressed by pageId, so a Meta Muse connector for Facebook posting reads the IDs from the API first. What to paste and where the token goes.
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Why You Still Need a Meta Muse Connector for Instagram Posting
Muse links Instagram automatically but documents no publishing action, so a Meta Muse connector for Instagram posting adds postType, scheduling and retries.
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Start With a Meta Muse Connector for LinkedIn Posting
LinkedIn has no config object in the AdaptlyPost API, so a Meta Muse connector for LinkedIn posting has no platform fields to get wrong. Where to start.
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How to Build a Meta Muse Connector for Social Media Posting
Muse writes its own client, so a Meta Muse connector for social media posting starts from a public OpenAPI spec. What to paste and where the token goes.
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Twelve Fields to Fill in a Meta Muse Connector for TikTok Posting
No TikTok connector is listed as of 20 September 2026, so a Meta Muse connector for TikTok posting means a custom one. Twelve keys, privacyLevel required.
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How to Build a Meta Muse Connector for X Posting
Muse ships no X connector, so a Meta Muse connector for X posting is one you build from a public spec. The API field is still called twitterConnectionIds.
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What Instagram's content_publishing_limit Endpoint Returns
Instagram's content_publishing_limit endpoint returns quota_usage plus a config block holding quota_total 50 and quota_duration 86400 seconds.
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The Facebook Long Lived Access Token and Its 60-Day Clock
A Facebook long lived access token lasts about 60 days, and the Page token you derive from it has no expiry date at all. The exchange call and the caveats.
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The Instagram Caption Limit Meta's API Actually Enforces
Meta sets the Instagram caption limit at 2200 characters, 30 hashtags and 20 @ tags, and returns code 36004 subcode 2207010 when a caption runs long.
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The Instagram API Image Requirements Meta Enforces at Upload
Meta's Instagram API image requirements are JPEG only, 8 MB maximum and a 4:5 to 1.91:1 aspect ratio, each with its own error code.
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What the instagram_business_content_publish Scope Actually Grants
The instagram_business_content_publish scope lets an app create organic Instagram posts, and it depends on instagram_business_basic on every call.
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Every Limit the Instagram Reels API Puts on Your Video
The Instagram Reels API caps a reel at 15 minutes and 300 MB and rejects anything but MOV or MP4. Every documented spec, plus the error each violation returns.
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The Instagram Resumable Upload Session and the rupload Host
An Instagram resumable upload starts with upload_type=resumable on /media, then a POST to rupload.facebook.com carrying offset and file_size headers.
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What a Link in Bio Is, and What Each Platform Now Allows
The link in bio habit began because Instagram will not hyperlink a caption. Here is what every platform's bio field allows now, and the limit on each.
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Why a LinkedIn Access Token Expires After 60 Days
Every LinkedIn access token runs 60 days and expires_in returns 5184000. Refresh token rules, what kills a token early, and how Meta's 60 days differ.
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Where the LinkedIn Alt Text Character Limit Is Actually Written
The LinkedIn alt text character limit is 4,086 characters on the API altText field, and LinkedIn publishes no limit at all for the alt text box in the app.
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How LinkedIn initializeUpload Turns a File Into an Image URN
The LinkedIn initializeUpload action returns an image URN and an upload URL. Here is the PUT, the post that references the URN, and the errors at each step.
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How the Threads API 250 Posts Per Day Limit Works
Meta's Threads API 250 posts per day limit is a 24-hour moving window on publishes. Carousels count once, and one endpoint reports what a profile has left.
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How the Threads API Carousel Maximum Items Cap Works
Meta sets the Threads API carousel maximum items cap at 20 children and a minimum of 2. Here is the per-item container flow and what a bad carousel returns.
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How TikTok API chunk_size And total_chunk_count Must Add Up
TikTok API chunk_size has a 5 MB floor, a 64 MB ceiling, a 128 MB final chunk, and a total_chunk_count that must round down, not up.
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Why TikTok API pull_from_url Domain Verification Rejects Your Host
TikTok API pull_from_url domain verification is a DNS check on the host you send. Fail it and every init call returns url_ownership_unverified.
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Every Twitter API media_category Value and What It Permits
The twitter api media_category parameter has eight values, decides the size and duration caps X enforces, and fails at Post time when you pick the wrong one.
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What a YouTube API Quota Extension Costs You in Paperwork
A YouTube API quota extension requires a compliance audit first, not a form field. Here is the default allocation, what Google asks for, and what it omits.
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Every YouTube API Schedule Video Field, and How Each One Fails
There is no YouTube API schedule video method. Scheduling is one datetime field, status.publishAt, and it only works while privacyStatus is private.
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How a Bluesky Feed Generator Works, From Lexicon to Live Feed
A Bluesky feed generator is one HTTPS service answering one XRPC query. The lexicons, the DID document entry, the JWT, and the gaps in the docs.
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Why the Bluesky Image Size Limit Is 2,000,000 Bytes
The Bluesky image size limit is 2,000,000 bytes per post image, set by maxSize in the images lexicon. Avatars and banners stop at 1,000,000 bytes.
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What facebookexternalhit Is and What Meta Requires From Your Server
The facebookexternalhit user agent is Meta's link preview crawler. Here are the exact UA strings, the server requirements and the AAAA record trap.
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Where l.facebook.com Comes From and Why Clicks Land as Direct
Facebook routes outbound clicks through l.facebook.com, its link shim. Here is what the hop does to your referrer and why a visit can land as direct.
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Why the Mastodon Character Limit Is 500 on One Server and 11,000 on Another
The Mastodon character limit defaults to 500 graphemes, and every server can change it. URLs always count as 23, and a content warning counts too.
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What the Pinterest API Rate Limit Is, per App and per User
The Pinterest API rate limit is per category: Trial gets 1,000 calls a day per app, Standard 100 a minute for org_write. Checked 12 September 2026.
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Counting Every Redirect Chain Hop Between a Post and Your Page
Each redirect chain hop costs a DNS lookup, a TLS handshake and a round trip. Googlebot follows 10. Shims like t.co and pin.it spend hops for you.
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What Happens to a Threads Ghost Post After 24 Hours
A Threads ghost post is a text-only post Meta archives after 24 hours. Replies can route to your inbox, and the API creates one with is_ghost_post=true.
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What Video Completion Rate Counts on Meta, TikTok and YouTube
Your video completion rate means a different thing on every platform. The exact counting rules from Meta, TikTok, Google Ads and the VAST spec.
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What YouTube Engaged Views Count, and What Google Never Says
YouTube engaged views has two live definitions inside Google: one in YouTube Studio, one in Google Ads with a 10 second threshold. Both, quoted in full.
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Why the Accounts Engaged Instagram Metric Is Not the Same as Interactions
The accounts engaged Instagram metric counts unique accounts, not actions, and the API field names no longer match the labels in the Instagram app.
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Converting the Bluesky API Rate Limit Into Posts Per Hour
The Bluesky API rate limit on writes is a points budget, not a request count: 5,000 points an hour, 3 per post, so 1,666 posts an hour.
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The Two Records Behind a Bluesky Custom Domain Handle
Your Bluesky custom domain handle needs one of two records: a TXT on _atproto, or plain text at /.well-known/atproto-did. Both values, plus the reserved TLDs.
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Why Bluesky Facets byteStart byteEnd Count Bytes, Not Characters
Bluesky facets byteStart byteEnd offsets count UTF-8 bytes, not JavaScript UTF-16 indexes. The lexicon warning, a worked example, and code that gets it right.
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The X Authenticity Rule: Can I Post the Same Content to Multiple Accounts?
Can I post the same content to multiple accounts? X bans identical posts from accounts one person runs, permits localized versions, and caps you at ten.
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Five Engagement Counts: Does Bluesky Have Analytics?
Does Bluesky have analytics? No. The lexicon gives postView five engagement counts, no view count, no impressions and no analytics endpoint.
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Only LinkedIn Publishes a Dwell Time Social Media Definition
LinkedIn is the only network with a published dwell time social media definition: measurement starts when at least half of a feed update is visible.
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What EU AI Act Article 50 Requires When You Post AI Content
EU AI Act Article 50 has applied since 2 August 2026. Article 50(2) binds providers to mark outputs, and 50(4) binds deployers to disclose deepfakes.
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No Platform Publishes a Follower Growth Rate, So Every Tool Invents One
Vendors compute follower growth rate from raw counts. Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube and X publish followers gained and lost, and no rate at all.
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What the FTC Endorsement Guides Say About a Sponsored Post
Codified at 16 CFR Part 255, the FTC Endorsement Guides interpret Section 5 of the FTC Act. What 255.5 asks of a sponsored social post, in the FTC's words.
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Three Minutes, Not Sixty Seconds: How Long Can a YouTube Short Be
Most pages say 60 seconds. How long can a YouTube Short be is three minutes, and the music and copyright limits that bite well before that.
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Just How Many Boards Can You Have on Pinterest? 2,000 of Any Type
The cap on how many boards can you have on Pinterest is 2,000 of any type, group boards included, plus 200,000 Pins. Both numbers live in the dev docs.
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How the Instagram API 100 Posts per 24 Hours Limit Works
Meta's Instagram API 100 posts per 24 hours limit is a rolling window counted at publish. Carousels count once, and the page's 50-post sentence goes unresolved.
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Meta Sets the Instagram API alt_text Character Limit at 1,000
Meta caps the Instagram API alt_text character limit at 1,000 and scopes the field to still images. Reels and stories accept no alt text at all.
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Meta's Deprecation Dates for Instagram Impressions vs Views
Dated facts on Instagram impressions vs views: Meta deprecated impressions January 21, 2025, and it stopped working on all API versions April 21, 2025.
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The Instagram Profile Visits Meaning Meta Gives You, and Everything It Leaves Out
Meta's Instagram profile visits meaning is one sentence long, with no attribution window, no dedupe rule and no uniqueness guarantee published.
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