# Flaghand
> Your agents write. You approve. Flaghand posts exactly that.
Flaghand is social publishing built for AI agents and the people they work for. Agents (Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw or
your own) draft X and LinkedIn posts through Flaghand's API, CLI or MCP server. Only the account owner approves, with a
passkey (Face ID or Touch ID), the exact snapshot they saw. Flaghand posts exactly that, and reports limited X read-back
checks. Link destinations and media-file identity aren't verified. LinkedIn read-back isn't available. Previews are drawn
the way X and LinkedIn show them. Made by Trellisbyte LLC.
Status: early access. Join the waitlist.
## Agent sign-up path
An agent can start sign-up for its person through POST https://app.flaghand.com/api/v1/signup. First GET https://app.flaghand.com/api/v1/plans for the
current signup_open state and plan ids. While sign-up is closed, the sign-up endpoint answers signup_closed; joining
the waitlist below does not create an account. When open, give the person the returned signup_url and follow its
current instructions; the agent claims its token after the person returns. Setup: https://app.flaghand.com/docs/setup.md.
## Join the waitlist (agents welcome)
POST https://flaghand.com/api/waitlist with a JSON body or a form post. Only email is required.
```sh
curl -sS https://flaghand.com/api/waitlist \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"email": "you@example.com", "utm_source": "llms-txt"}'
```
- Fields: email (required); utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign, utm_content, utm_term, referrer, landing_path
(optional). Set utm_source to where you or your person found Flaghand (for example youtube, x, linkedin,
mcp-directory), or llms-txt if it was this file.
- Answer: {"ok": true, "status": "joined"} the first time, {"ok": true, "status": "already_joined"} after that. Joining
again changes nothing.
- Errors: {"error": {"code": "...", "message": "..."}} with HTTP 4xx. Codes: invalid_email, invalid_body,
method_not_allowed, not_found.
- CORS is open to every origin. No captcha, no API key.
## Product documentation
- https://app.flaghand.com/docs: the hosted API, CLI and MCP documentation.
- https://app.flaghand.com/llms.txt: the product's agent guide.
- https://app.flaghand.com/llms-full.txt: the entire API, CLI and MCP manual in one Markdown response.
- WebMCP: the home and pricing pages offer experimental document.modelContext tools for current plans, person-facing sign-up and docs search; the app offers session-bound drafting tools. Only your passkey approves. https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents.md
- https://app.flaghand.com/auth.md: registering a person by the open auth.md agent-registration protocol.
- https://flaghand.com/llms-full.txt: every public page below in Markdown, in the same order.
## Contact
Support and security reports: support@flaghand.com.
## Status
https://flaghand.com/status shows whether Flaghand is posting right now; https://flaghand.com/status.json is the same answer as JSON (also GET
https://app.flaghand.com/api/v1/status/posting, no sign-in; MCP and CLI: getPostingStatus). Read it before retrying a failed or
late post: an outage shows there for everyone, while a post's own problem shows only on its job (its error_code, listed
at https://app.flaghand.com/docs/errors.md). Counts only, every account together, nothing about any post or account:
- state: running (the scheduler ran in the last 2 minutes and nothing due is past its time unstarted), delayed (its
last run is 2 to 10 minutes old, or a post is more than 2 minutes past its time without having started) or stopped (no
run for over 10 minutes). /status.json alone can also answer HTTP 503 with state unreachable and an error {code:
app_unreachable, message}: the app didn't answer, so posting may be stopped too.
- clock: last_tick (the scheduler's last once-a-minute run) and age_seconds. now: when it was read (kept 30 seconds).
- x_credits_exhausted: Flaghand's prepaid X credits ran out; X posts are held, not failed, until a top-up.
- window: from, to and minutes (60), the last hour.
- due: the jobs whose time fell in the window (total, canceled ones and posts made by hand left out), as on_time (sent
within 2 minutes of its time on the first try; TikTok: asked to publish), late, in_progress, overdue (not started 2
minutes after its time), failed, held (X credits) and waiting_for_owner (post 1 by hand, or a login to reconnect).
- platforms: x, linkedin and tiktok, each with calls (posting calls that ended in the window), succeeded, failed (the
platform refused the post or didn't answer, the run broke off, or Flaghand's X credits ran out; a duplicate, an
expired login or a plan isn't counted) and success_rate (succeeded / calls to 3 decimals, null with no calls).
## Free tools
https://flaghand.com/tools lists every free tool below by network, a line each (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/tools.md).
## Free post previewers
https://flaghand.com/x-post-preview and https://flaghand.com/linkedin-post-preview draw a post exactly as X or LinkedIn shows it. They run in the
browser: nothing is uploaded or stored, and there is no API. Open one with the post in the hash to show it to your
person (the hash never reaches the server):
- https://flaghand.com/x-post-preview#text=Hello%20world&name=Ada%20Lovelace&handle=ada&verified=blue&view=phone&theme=dark
- https://flaghand.com/linkedin-post-preview#text=Hello%20world&name=Ada%20Lovelace&headline=Engineer&view=desktop&theme=light
Fields: text, name, handle (X) or headline (LinkedIn), verified=blue|gold (X), page=1 (a LinkedIn company page, its
followers in headline), view=desktop|phone, theme=light|dark. The page's "Copy link" writes the same link, without the
photos; "Download PNG" saves the post as drawn, at twice its size, made in the browser.
Until launch, "Schedule this with Flaghand" goes to the waitlist, which never gets the text.
## Free X thread maker
https://flaghand.com/x-thread-maker splits long text into an X thread: at paragraph and sentence ends, every post within 280 as X's
composer counts it (links 23, emoji 2, Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters 2), each post drawn as X shows it. It
runs in the browser too, with no API. Put the text in the hash to hand your person a ready thread to copy or move
splits in; a line holding only --- forces a split:
- https://flaghand.com/x-thread-maker#text=First%20point.%0A%0A---%0A%0ASecond%20point.&name=Ada%20Lovelace&handle=ada&numbered=1
Fields: text, name, handle, verified=blue|gold, numbered=1 (adds 1/n to each post), view=desktop|phone,
theme=light|dark. To hand over a thread already split, give each post in order as post=… in place of text (with
numbered=1, each post may end with its own i/n); the page's "Copy link" writes that link, without the photo, and
"Download PNG" saves the whole thread as drawn, at twice its size, made in the browser:
- https://flaghand.com/x-thread-maker#post=First%20point.&post=Second%20point.&name=Ada%20Lovelace&handle=ada&view=phone&theme=dark
Flaghand's API takes the same thread as one x_thread draft.
## Free TikTok slideshow maker
https://flaghand.com/tiktok-slideshow-maker turns photos into the slides of a TikTok photo post: text on each in ten styles and four
fonts, each slide downloaded as a 1080 × 1920 PNG (4:5, 1:1 and 16:9 too). It draws with Flaghand's own slide renderer,
so a slide there is pixel for pixel what Flaghand posts. It runs in the browser with no API, and the photos never leave
it. For agents, Flaghand's API makes the same slideshow as a tiktok_photo draft and renders it on the server:
https://app.flaghand.com/docs/slideshows.md.
## Free image size checker
https://flaghand.com/image-size-checker shows how X and LinkedIn crop an image: up to four post photos laid out as X's timeline and
LinkedIn's 552 px feed show them, or a banner and a profile photo on each network's profile, on desktop and on an
iPhone, where the photo covers part of the banner. It says what each network cuts. It runs in the browser with no API,
and the images never leave it. Open it set up with use=post|profile, view=desktop|phone and theme=light|dark in the
hash, e.g. https://flaghand.com/image-size-checker#use=profile&view=phone. The sizes to use:
- X (Twitter): header 1500 × 500 (3:1, shown whole; the profile photo covers its bottom left), profile photo
400 × 400 (a circle; JPG, PNG or GIF up to 2 MB), post photo 1080 × 1350 (4:5, never cut, alone or in a set of up
to 4; one photo of any shape shows whole, but in a set a photo wider than 20:17 can lose its sides; up to 5 MB).
- LinkedIn: background 1584 × 396 (4:1, shown whole; the photo covers part of its left side, most of its height there
on an iPhone; JPG or PNG under 8 MB), profile photo 400 × 400 (a circle), post photo 1080 × 1350 (4:5, the tallest
the feed shows; a taller one gets bars at its sides).
## Free character counters
https://flaghand.com/x-character-counter and https://flaghand.com/linkedin-character-counter count a post the way each platform does and show what's
left: X's 280 with every link 23 and emoji and Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters 2 (the desk's count, which
follows x.com's composer rule for rule), and LinkedIn's 3,000 in UTF-16 code units (most emoji 2, an emoji with a skin
tone or a flag 4, a formatter's bold or italic letter 2, a link its full length), with where …see more cuts it. They
run in the browser too, with no API. Put the text in the hash:
- https://flaghand.com/x-character-counter#text=Hello%20world
- https://flaghand.com/linkedin-character-counter#text=Hello%20world&view=phone
Fields: text, and view=desktop|phone (LinkedIn: whose feed the …see more mark follows).
## Best time to post on X and LinkedIn
https://flaghand.com/best-time-to-post: when posts do best on X and LinkedIn, hour by hour across the week, in local time, from
Buffer's and Sprout Social's 2026 studies (each named and linked on the page).
- X: 9, 10 and 11 AM, best Tuesday to Thursday.
- LinkedIn: 4 PM, 3 PM and 11 AM, best Tuesday to Thursday.
- Every hour's number, the sources and the answers, in Markdown: https://flaghand.com/best-time-to-post.md
- An X account's own best times, which Flaghand learns from its posts: GET
https://app.flaghand.com/api/v1/workspaces/{workspace}/best-times (a workspace token with read).
## Best time to post on TikTok
https://flaghand.com/best-time-to-post-on-tiktok: when TikTok posts do best, hour by hour across the week, in local time, from
Buffer's and Sprout Social's 2026 studies. They disagree, so each has its own week (each named and linked on the page).
- Buffer: Sunday at 9 AM. Then Monday and Sunday at 1 PM. Saturday is the best day.
- Sprout Social: Tuesday to Thursday, 2 to 6 PM. Weekends are quietest. Sunday is the worst day.
- Every hour's number, the sources and the answers, in Markdown: https://flaghand.com/best-time-to-post-on-tiktok.md
- An account's own results beat any study: TikTok Studio's Analytics, then Followers, shows when its followers are on.
## Free text formatters
https://flaghand.com/linkedin-text-formatter and https://flaghand.com/x-text-formatter give a post bold, italic, bold italic and monospace letters and
bullet or numbered lists. Neither site has formatting in posts, so the styles are other Unicode letters, which survive
any paste; each page draws the post as the platform shows it (LinkedIn's …see more cut, X's own count) and copies the
text. They run in the browser, with no API. You can write the letters yourself: Unicode's mathematical sans-serif bold
(A U+1D5D4, a U+1D5EE, 0 U+1D7EC), italic (A U+1D608, a U+1D622; digits stay plain), bold italic (A U+1D63C, a U+1D656,
digits bold) and monospace (A U+1D670, a U+1D68A, 0 U+1D7F6); only A-Z, a-z and 0-9 have them. A list is "• " or "1. " at
a line's start. Each styled letter counts 2 on both platforms (so does • on X), and screen readers and search read styled
letters poorly: style a few words, and keep names, handles, hashtags and links plain. To hand your person a post to check
and copy, put the text, already styled, in the hash:
- https://flaghand.com/linkedin-text-formatter#text=%F0%9D%97%95%F0%9D%97%B6%F0%9D%97%B4%20news%3A%20%F0%9D%98%B5%F0%9D%98%A9%F0%9D%98%B3%F0%9D%98%A6%F0%9D%98%A6%20things.%0A%E2%80%A2%20One%0A%E2%80%A2%20Two&name=Ada%20Lovelace&headline=Engineer
- https://flaghand.com/x-text-formatter#text=Hello%20world&name=Ada%20Lovelace&handle=ada&view=phone
Fields: text, name, handle (X) or headline (LinkedIn), view=desktop|phone, theme=light|dark. "Copy link" writes the same
link; "Download PNG" saves the post as drawn, at twice its size. The page's From Markdown turns a draft's Markdown
(**bold**, *italic*, `code`, # headings, - lists) into the same letters and • lists. Flaghand's API takes styled text
in a draft as it is.
## Free UTM builder
https://flaghand.com/utm-builder tags a link for the post it goes in, as Flaghand tags its own links: utm_source x, linkedin or tiktok,
utm_medium social, then utm_campaign (one push's posts, e.g. launch_week) and utm_content (one post, e.g. post_01), each
lowercase with underscores for spaces. A link's other parameters and #fragment stay as written; only those four tags are
replaced. Several links, or a whole thread, are tagged at once, each link numbered in its content tag (link_01,
link_02, …). X counts a tagged link as 23 like any other. It runs in the browser with no API: an agent can tag a link
itself by these rules, or hand its person the builder set up, with the link and tags in the hash:
- https://flaghand.com/utm-builder#link=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Flaunch&platform=x&campaign=launch_week&content=post_01
- https://flaghand.com/utm-builder#links=First%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fa%0ASecond%3A%20example.com%2Fb&platform=linkedin&campaign=launch_week
Fields: link (one link) or links (several, or a whole thread), platform=x|linkedin|tiktok, then source, medium,
campaign and content (source and medium default to the platform's). "Share these tags" writes the same link.
## Pages
Every page answers in Markdown: at its Markdown address below, or at its own address when Accept asks for text/markdown.
- [Flaghand](https://flaghand.com/): what Flaghand is, and the waitlist (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/index.md)
- [Free social media tools](https://flaghand.com/tools): every free tool below, grouped by network, with one line each (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/tools.md)
- [X post preview](https://flaghand.com/x-post-preview): a free tweet previewer: a post drawn exactly as X shows it (desktop or phone, light or dark), its character count and where Show more cuts it (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/x-post-preview.md)
- [LinkedIn post preview](https://flaghand.com/linkedin-post-preview): a free LinkedIn post previewer: a post drawn exactly as the feed shows it (desktop or phone, light or dark), where …see more cuts it and its character count (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/linkedin-post-preview.md)
- [X thread maker](https://flaghand.com/x-thread-maker): a free Twitter thread maker: long text split into an X thread at sentence ends, every post within 280 as X counts it (links 23, emoji and Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters 2), each drawn as X shows it, with movable splits and copy per post (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/x-thread-maker.md)
- [TikTok slideshow maker](https://flaghand.com/tiktok-slideshow-maker): a free slideshow maker for TikTok photo posts: photos in, text on them in the styles TikTok users know, and a 1080 × 1920 PNG out for each slide, drawn by Flaghand's own slide renderer (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/tiktok-slideshow-maker.md)
- [Image size checker](https://flaghand.com/image-size-checker): a free image size checker for X (Twitter) and LinkedIn: up to four post photos laid out and cut as each network shows them, and a banner and profile photo on desktop and an iPhone, with the sizes to use (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/image-size-checker.md)
- [X character counter](https://flaghand.com/x-character-counter): a free Twitter character counter: what is left of a post's 280 as you type, counted the way X counts (links 23, emoji and Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters 2), with the part past 280 marked (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/x-character-counter.md)
- [LinkedIn character counter](https://flaghand.com/linkedin-character-counter): a free LinkedIn character counter: what is left of a post's 3,000 as you type, counted the way LinkedIn counts (most emoji 2, bold and italic letters 2), and where …see more cuts it on desktop or a phone (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/linkedin-character-counter.md)
- [Best time to post on X and LinkedIn](https://flaghand.com/best-time-to-post): when posts do best on X and LinkedIn, hour by hour across the week, in local time, from Buffer's and Sprout Social's 2026 studies (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/best-time-to-post.md)
- [Best time to post on TikTok](https://flaghand.com/best-time-to-post-on-tiktok): when TikTok posts do best, hour by hour across the week, in local time, from Buffer's and Sprout Social's 2026 studies, which disagree, so each has its own week (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/best-time-to-post-on-tiktok.md)
- [LinkedIn text formatter](https://flaghand.com/linkedin-text-formatter): a free LinkedIn text formatter: LinkedIn bold text, italic, bold italic and monospace in Unicode letters, bullet and numbered lists, and the post drawn exactly as the feed shows it, with where …see more cuts it and LinkedIn's count (a styled letter counts 2) (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/linkedin-text-formatter.md)
- [X text formatter](https://flaghand.com/x-text-formatter): a free Twitter bold text generator: bold, italic, bold italic and monospace in Unicode letters and lists for X posts, drawn exactly as X shows them and counted as X counts (a styled letter counts 2) (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/x-text-formatter.md)
- [UTM builder](https://flaghand.com/utm-builder): a free UTM builder (UTM link generator, campaign URL builder) for X, LinkedIn and TikTok posts: a link tagged with utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign and utm_content as Flaghand tags its own links, or every link in a thread at once (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/utm-builder.md)
- [Privacy Policy](https://flaghand.com/privacy): How Flaghand handles your account, connected platforms, drafts, media, billing and agents, and how to export or delete your data. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/privacy.md)
- [Terms of Service](https://flaghand.com/terms): Flaghand Terms of Service: passkey approvals, connected accounts, plans, trials, renewal, cancellation and your content. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/terms.md)
- [Flaghand and TikTok](https://flaghand.com/tiktok): How Flaghand connects to TikTok, the permissions it asks for, the posting screen, what it keeps and how to disconnect. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/tiktok.md)
- [Guides](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides): Flaghand's guides to posting on X, LinkedIn and TikTok: their APIs and prices, posting errors and their fixes, and how Flaghand compares. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides.md)
- [How to auto-post your blog's RSS feed to X and LinkedIn](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/auto-post-rss-feed-to-x-and-linkedin): IFTTT, Zapier, Make, dlvr.it, Buffer's content feeds and Flaghand's feed drafts compared for new blog posts on X and LinkedIn, including which still reach X, how often each checks and who reads a post first. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/auto-post-rss-feed-to-x-and-linkedin.md)
- [Flaghand vs Agorapulse for teams that review posts](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-agorapulse): Agorapulse vs Flaghand for teams reviewing social posts: prices, networks, approval steps, edits after approval, and API and MCP access. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-agorapulse.md)
- [Flaghand vs AuthoredUp for writing and scheduling LinkedIn posts](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-authoredup): AuthoredUp vs Flaghand for LinkedIn: formatting, feed previews and deep analytics in a Chrome extension versus your own drafting agent and passkey approval. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-authoredup.md)
- [Flaghand vs Ayrshare for agents and apps](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-ayrshare): Ayrshare vs Flaghand for developers: networks, API keys, pricing and the owner approval boundary. Facts checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-ayrshare.md)
- [Flaghand vs Blotato for n8n, Make and AI agents](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-blotato): Blotato vs Flaghand for automated posting: prices, networks, n8n, Make, API and MCP access, and who approves each post. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-blotato.md)
- [Flaghand vs Buffer for posting with AI agents](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-buffer): Buffer vs Flaghand for AI agents that draft social posts: where Buffer is better, and who can publish in each. Checked October 25, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-buffer.md)
- [Flaghand vs FeedHive for posting with AI agents](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-feedhive): FeedHive vs Flaghand for AI-written social posts: prices, networks, built-in AI, API and MCP access, and who approves before publishing. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-feedhive.md)
- [Flaghand vs Hootsuite for solo builders and small teams](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-hootsuite): Hootsuite vs Flaghand for a solo builder or small team: prices per seat, inbox, listening, reports, networks, AI agent access and approvals. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-hootsuite.md)
- [Flaghand vs Hypefury for posting with AI agents](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-hypefury): Hypefury no longer supports X. Hypefury vs Flaghand for X, LinkedIn and AI agents that draft your posts: where Hypefury is better, and who can publish. Checked October 25, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-hypefury.md)
- [Flaghand vs Late for agents and apps](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-late): Late's getlate.dev now redirects to Zernio. Compare its current API, pricing and networks with Flaghand's owner approval model. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-late.md)
- [Flaghand vs Later when every post needs approval](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-later): Later vs Flaghand for people who want human approval before every post: workflow exceptions, pricing, networks, API and agent access. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-later.md)
- [Flaghand vs Loomly for teams that review posts](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-loomly): Loomly vs Flaghand for teams reviewing social posts: prices, networks, approval steps, exact text and media, and what public API and MCP access is documented. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-loomly.md)
- [Flaghand vs Metricool for people and agents](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-metricool): Metricool vs Flaghand: free and paid plans, analytics, networks, API and MCP access, and the owner approval boundary. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-metricool.md)
- [Flaghand vs Mixpost for people and agents](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-mixpost): Mixpost vs Flaghand: open-source Lite, paid self-hosted and Cloud plans, networks, API and MCP access, and who can approve a post. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-mixpost.md)
- [Flaghand vs Ocoya for posting with AI agents](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-ocoya): Ocoya vs Flaghand for AI-written social posts: prices, networks, AI campaigns, API and MCP access, and whether each post needs human approval. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-ocoya.md)
- [Flaghand vs Outstand for agents and apps](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-outstand): Compare Outstand with Flaghand: monthly plans, usage charges, supported networks, hosted MCP and per-post owner approval. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-outstand.md)
- [Flaghand vs Planable for approval workflows](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-planable): Planable vs Flaghand when a person must approve every post: required approvals, client review, pricing, networks, API and MCP. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-planable.md)
- [Flaghand vs Post for Me for agents and apps](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-post-for-me): Compare Post for Me with Flaghand: monthly pricing, networks, MCP access and who can authorize a post. Public sources checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-post-for-me.md)
- [Flaghand vs Postiz for posting with AI agents](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-postiz): Postiz vs Flaghand for AI agents that draft social posts: where Postiz is better, open source included, and who can publish in each. Checked October 25, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-postiz.md)
- [Flaghand vs Publer for posting with AI agents](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-publer): Publer vs Flaghand for AI agents that draft social posts: prices and plans, networks, API and MCP access, and who approves each post. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-publer.md)
- [Flaghand vs Sendible for agencies and freelancers](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-sendible): Sendible vs Flaghand for several clients: prices, networks, client approval, reports, API and MCP access, and who can publish. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-sendible.md)
- [Flaghand vs SocialBee for posting with AI agents](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-socialbee): SocialBee vs Flaghand for AI agents that draft social posts: prices and plans, networks, API and agent access, and who approves each post. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-socialbee.md)
- [Flaghand vs SocialPilot for agencies and freelancers](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-socialpilot): SocialPilot vs Flaghand for several clients: prices, networks, client approval, reports, API and MCP access, and who can publish. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-socialpilot.md)
- [Flaghand vs Sprout Social for solo builders and small teams](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-sprout-social): Sprout Social vs Flaghand for a solo builder or small team: prices per seat, inbox, listening, reports, networks, API and AI agent access, and approvals. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-sprout-social.md)
- [Flaghand vs Supergrow for LinkedIn with AI help](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-supergrow): Supergrow vs Flaghand for LinkedIn: built-in AI writing, interviews, team approvals and analytics versus your own drafting agent and passkey approval. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-supergrow.md)
- [Flaghand vs Taplio for LinkedIn with AI help](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-taplio): Taplio vs Flaghand for LinkedIn: built-in AI writing, inspiration and analytics versus your own drafting agent and passkey approval. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-taplio.md)
- [Flaghand vs Tweet Hunter for X with AI help](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-tweet-hunter): Tweet Hunter vs Flaghand for X: built-in AI writing, a tweet library and analytics versus your own drafting agent and passkey approval. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-tweet-hunter.md)
- [Flaghand vs Typefully for posting with AI agents](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-typefully): Typefully vs Flaghand for AI agents that draft X and LinkedIn posts: where Typefully is better, and who can publish in each. Checked October 25, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-typefully.md)
- [Flaghand vs Upload-Post for n8n, Make and AI agents](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-upload-post): Upload-Post vs Flaghand for automated posting: prices, networks, n8n, Make, API and MCP access, and who approves each post. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-upload-post.md)
- [Formatting a LinkedIn post](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/formatting-a-linkedin-post): How to format a LinkedIn post with line breaks, lists, bold-looking Unicode text, hashtags, mentions and link cards, and check where see more cuts it. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/formatting-a-linkedin-post.md)
- [How to add alt text to images on X and LinkedIn](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/how-to-add-alt-text-x-linkedin): Add image descriptions on X and LinkedIn, with app steps, documented character limits and API alt-text fields. First-party sources checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/how-to-add-alt-text-x-linkedin.md)
- [How to cross-post to X, LinkedIn and TikTok](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/how-to-cross-post-x-linkedin-tiktok): Cross-post one idea to X, LinkedIn and TikTok without copying the wrong length, links, tags or media. Network rules, a practical workflow and tools compared. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/how-to-cross-post-x-linkedin-tiktok.md)
- [How to post to X Communities](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/how-to-post-to-x-communities): Post to an X Community in the app or with the API's community_id. Who can post, what followers see, which posts X refuses, and X's announced shutdown. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/how-to-post-to-x-communities.md)
- [How to schedule LinkedIn posts](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/how-to-schedule-linkedin-posts): Schedule LinkedIn posts with its own clock, a scheduling tool or the API. Profile and Page limits, supported formats and honest trade-offs, checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/how-to-schedule-linkedin-posts.md)
- [How to schedule TikTok posts](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/how-to-schedule-tiktok-posts): Schedule TikTok posts with TikTok Studio, understand the documented scheduling window, and tell automatic publishing from an inbox draft. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/how-to-schedule-tiktok-posts.md)
- [How to schedule X (Twitter) posts and threads](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/how-to-schedule-x-posts-and-threads): Schedule X posts on the web, in X Pro, with a scheduling tool or through the API. Compare plan access and thread, poll and media caveats. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/how-to-schedule-x-posts-and-threads.md)
- [How to let an AI agent post on social media safely](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely): Nine checks for AI-written social posts: passkey approval of the exact post, agent tokens that can't publish, and honest limits on read-back. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely.md)
- [Posting images and video through LinkedIn's API](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/linkedin-api-images-and-video): Upload images and post video through LinkedIn's API: initialize, transfer bytes, finalize video, check processing and create single-image or multi-image posts. Dated first-party limits and upload errors. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/linkedin-api-images-and-video.md)
- [Posting to LinkedIn through its API: what a personal profile can do](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/linkedin-api-personal-profile): What LinkedIn's w_member_social permission can post to a personal profile, what needs other permissions, and what Flaghand does with it. Checked October 25, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/linkedin-api-personal-profile.md)
- [LinkedIn API posting errors, explained](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/linkedin-api-posting-errors): What LinkedIn's API errors mean when a post fails, from expired tokens and 403 missing permissions to 422 duplicates and content errors, 429 limits and image, video and document upload states, and what fixes each. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/linkedin-api-posting-errors.md)
- [A social media approval workflow for clients and teams](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/social-media-approval-workflow): A practical social media approval workflow: draft, review, change, approve and schedule. Compare client approvals in Planable, Later, Hootsuite and Agorapulse, plus AI-agent drafts. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/social-media-approval-workflow.md)
- [Social media image sizes for X, LinkedIn and TikTok](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/social-media-image-sizes): Post photos, carousels and documents, profile photos and banners, how each feed crops, file types and size limits for X, LinkedIn and TikTok, from each network's own docs. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/social-media-image-sizes.md)
- [TikTok's Content Posting API, explained](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/tiktok-content-posting-api): TikTok inbox upload vs Direct Post, unaudited app restrictions, audit requirements, photo posts, creator_info and posting limits. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/tiktok-content-posting-api.md)
- [Posting to X from an AI agent: the APIs and MCP servers, compared](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/x-api-and-mcp-servers-for-ai-agents): X's own API and MCP server, Typefully, Buffer, Postiz and Flaghand for AI agents that post to X: drafts, scheduling, threads, media, approval, sign-in and price. Checked October 25, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/x-api-and-mcp-servers-for-ai-agents.md)
- [X API OAuth 2.0 with PKCE, explained](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/x-api-oauth-2-pkce): Connect an X account with OAuth 2.0 PKCE: the authorization-code flow, posting and media scopes, public and confidential clients, rotating refresh tokens and common errors. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/x-api-oauth-2-pkce.md)
- [X API posting errors, explained](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/x-api-posting-errors): What X's API errors mean when a post fails, from 403 duplicate content and not permitted to 401, 429, media processing and size errors and the reply and quote limits, and what fixes each. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/x-api-posting-errors.md)
- [X API pricing, explained for people who post](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/x-api-pricing): What X's pay-per-use API charges to post, post a link, post a thread, add alt text, read and delete, and what 1, 3 or 10 posts a day cost a month. Checked October 25, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/x-api-pricing.md)
- [X API rate limits for posting, explained](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/x-api-rate-limits): X's per-user and per-app posting rate limits, pay-per-use versus old plan quotas, what a Twitter API 429 means, reset headers and safe backoff. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/x-api-rate-limits.md)
- [Threads, polls and media with the X API v2](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/x-api-threads-polls-media): How to post a thread, a poll and an image or video with the X API v2, with curl examples checked against X's OpenAPI spec and the price of each call. Checked October 26, 2026. (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/x-api-threads-polls-media.md)
- [X (Twitter) and LinkedIn character limits, explained](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/x-linkedin-character-limits): X (Twitter) allows 280 characters, or 25,000 with Premium; LinkedIn posts allow 3,000. How links, emoji and CJK count, and what shows before "see more". (Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/x-linkedin-character-limits.md)
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Source: https://flaghand.com/index.md
# Flaghand
> Your agents write. You approve. Flaghand posts exactly that.
X and LinkedIn posting for AI agents. Early access, by waitlist.
Flaghand is social publishing built for AI agents and the people they work for. Agents (Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw or
your own) draft X and LinkedIn posts through Flaghand's API, CLI or MCP server. Only the account owner approves, with a
passkey (Face ID or Touch ID), the exact snapshot they saw. Flaghand posts exactly that, and reports limited X read-back
checks. Link destinations and media-file identity aren't verified. LinkedIn read-back isn't available. Previews are drawn
the way X and LinkedIn show them. Made by Trellisbyte LLC.
## How it works
1. Your agent drafts a post or a thread and asks you to approve it, through Flaghand's API, CLI or MCP server.
2. You see each post drawn exactly as X or LinkedIn will show it, with the check that it would post as previewed, and
approve the plan with one passkey tap: what posts, who posts which part, and when.
3. Flaghand posts exactly what you approved, at its time. Agents can't approve, schedule or post: their tokens have no
scope that does.
## Start
Join the waitlist on this page, or have your agent join for you: POST https://flaghand.com/api/waitlist with {"email": "you@example.com"}
(https://flaghand.com/llms.txt has the details). No captcha, no API key. The agent-started account sign-up path is POST https://app.flaghand.com/api/v1/signup,
after GET https://app.flaghand.com/api/v1/plans; while closed it answers signup_closed, not an account. Setup: https://app.flaghand.com/docs/setup.md.
## Free tools
- [Free social media tools](https://flaghand.com/tools): every free tool below, grouped by network, with one line each. Markdown: https://flaghand.com/tools.md
- [X post preview](https://flaghand.com/x-post-preview): a free tweet previewer: a post drawn exactly as X shows it (desktop or phone, light or dark), its character count and where Show more cuts it. Markdown: https://flaghand.com/x-post-preview.md
- [LinkedIn post preview](https://flaghand.com/linkedin-post-preview): a free LinkedIn post previewer: a post drawn exactly as the feed shows it (desktop or phone, light or dark), where …see more cuts it and its character count. Markdown: https://flaghand.com/linkedin-post-preview.md
- [X thread maker](https://flaghand.com/x-thread-maker): a free Twitter thread maker: long text split into an X thread at sentence ends, every post within 280 as X counts it (links 23, emoji and Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters 2), each drawn as X shows it, with movable splits and copy per post. Markdown: https://flaghand.com/x-thread-maker.md
- [TikTok slideshow maker](https://flaghand.com/tiktok-slideshow-maker): a free slideshow maker for TikTok photo posts: photos in, text on them in the styles TikTok users know, and a 1080 × 1920 PNG out for each slide, drawn by Flaghand's own slide renderer. Markdown: https://flaghand.com/tiktok-slideshow-maker.md
- [Image size checker](https://flaghand.com/image-size-checker): a free image size checker for X (Twitter) and LinkedIn: up to four post photos laid out and cut as each network shows them, and a banner and profile photo on desktop and an iPhone, with the sizes to use. Markdown: https://flaghand.com/image-size-checker.md
- [X character counter](https://flaghand.com/x-character-counter): a free Twitter character counter: what is left of a post's 280 as you type, counted the way X counts (links 23, emoji and Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters 2), with the part past 280 marked. Markdown: https://flaghand.com/x-character-counter.md
- [LinkedIn character counter](https://flaghand.com/linkedin-character-counter): a free LinkedIn character counter: what is left of a post's 3,000 as you type, counted the way LinkedIn counts (most emoji 2, bold and italic letters 2), and where …see more cuts it on desktop or a phone. Markdown: https://flaghand.com/linkedin-character-counter.md
- [Best time to post on X and LinkedIn](https://flaghand.com/best-time-to-post): when posts do best on X and LinkedIn, hour by hour across the week, in local time, from Buffer's and Sprout Social's 2026 studies. Markdown: https://flaghand.com/best-time-to-post.md
- [Best time to post on TikTok](https://flaghand.com/best-time-to-post-on-tiktok): when TikTok posts do best, hour by hour across the week, in local time, from Buffer's and Sprout Social's 2026 studies, which disagree, so each has its own week. Markdown: https://flaghand.com/best-time-to-post-on-tiktok.md
- [LinkedIn text formatter](https://flaghand.com/linkedin-text-formatter): a free LinkedIn text formatter: LinkedIn bold text, italic, bold italic and monospace in Unicode letters, bullet and numbered lists, and the post drawn exactly as the feed shows it, with where …see more cuts it and LinkedIn's count (a styled letter counts 2). Markdown: https://flaghand.com/linkedin-text-formatter.md
- [X text formatter](https://flaghand.com/x-text-formatter): a free Twitter bold text generator: bold, italic, bold italic and monospace in Unicode letters and lists for X posts, drawn exactly as X shows them and counted as X counts (a styled letter counts 2). Markdown: https://flaghand.com/x-text-formatter.md
- [UTM builder](https://flaghand.com/utm-builder): a free UTM builder (UTM link generator, campaign URL builder) for X, LinkedIn and TikTok posts: a link tagged with utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign and utm_content as Flaghand tags its own links, or every link in a thread at once. Markdown: https://flaghand.com/utm-builder.md
## Guides
- [Guides](https://flaghand.com/docs/guides): Flaghand's guides to posting on X, LinkedIn and TikTok: their APIs and prices, posting errors and their fixes, and how Flaghand compares. Markdown: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides.md
- Documentation for the API, CLI and MCP server: https://app.flaghand.com/docs (Markdown in one file: https://app.flaghand.com/llms-full.txt)
## For agents
- https://flaghand.com/llms.txt: this site, its free tools and how to start, for agents.
- https://flaghand.com/llms-full.txt: every page of this site in Markdown, in one file.
- https://app.flaghand.com/llms.txt: how an agent drafts, checks and asks for approval in Flaghand.
- Every page here answers in Markdown when asked with Accept: text/markdown.
Support and security reports: support@flaghand.com.
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Source: https://flaghand.com/tools.md
# Free social media tools
Twelve tools for X, LinkedIn and TikTok. No sign-up. Made by Flaghand. To open one with your person's post already in it, see
https://flaghand.com/llms.txt.
Page: https://flaghand.com/tools
## X
- [X post preview](https://flaghand.com/x-post-preview): Your post, exactly as X shows it.
- [X thread maker](https://flaghand.com/x-thread-maker): Long text, split into a thread that fits.
- [X character counter](https://flaghand.com/x-character-counter): What’s left of 280, counted as X counts.
- [X text formatter](https://flaghand.com/x-text-formatter): Bold and italic text, and lists, for X.
## LinkedIn
- [LinkedIn post preview](https://flaghand.com/linkedin-post-preview): Your post, exactly as the feed shows it.
- [LinkedIn character counter](https://flaghand.com/linkedin-character-counter): What’s left of 3,000, and where …see more cuts.
- [LinkedIn text formatter](https://flaghand.com/linkedin-text-formatter): Bold and italic text, and lists, for LinkedIn.
## TikTok
- [TikTok slideshow maker](https://flaghand.com/tiktok-slideshow-maker): Photos into 1080 × 1920 slides, with text.
- [Best time to post on TikTok](https://flaghand.com/best-time-to-post-on-tiktok): When TikTok posts do best, hour by hour.
## X and LinkedIn
- [Image size checker](https://flaghand.com/image-size-checker): How X and LinkedIn crop your images.
- [Best time to post](https://flaghand.com/best-time-to-post): When posts do best, hour by hour.
## X, LinkedIn and TikTok
- [UTM builder](https://flaghand.com/utm-builder): Your links, tagged with UTMs for each network.
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Source: https://flaghand.com/x-post-preview.md
# X post preview
https://flaghand.com/x-post-preview draws a post exactly as X's home timeline shows it: your name, handle and check, its
line breaks, links and photo, on desktop or a phone, in light or dark, with X's character count and where Show more cuts
it. Free, no sign-up. It runs in your browser: nothing you type or add is uploaded or stored, and there is no API.
## How to use it
1. Type or paste the post. Add your name and handle, a check (blue or gold) and a photo if the post has one.
2. Switch between Desktop and Phone, Light and Dark, to see each way X draws it.
3. Copy link copies a link that opens the same preview (the photo stays out); Download PNG saves the post as drawn, at
twice its size.
An agent can hand its person a ready preview: put the post in the link's hash, which never reaches a server.
- https://flaghand.com/x-post-preview#text=Hello%20world&name=Ada%20Lovelace&handle=ada&verified=blue&view=phone&theme=dark
Fields: text, name, handle, verified=blue|gold, view=desktop|phone, theme=light|dark.
## Questions.
### What does this tweet preview show?
Your post as X’s home timeline draws it, on desktop or a phone, in light or dark: your name, handle and check, its line breaks, links and photo, X’s character count and where Show more cuts it.
### How long can a post on X be?
280 characters, counted the way X counts them: every link counts as 23 and most emoji as 2. With X Premium a post can be longer; the timeline shows the first part and a Show more link.
### Where does X cut a long post?
At the last space within the first 280 characters. Everything after it hides behind Show more.
### How does X show a photo?
One photo keeps its own shape across the post’s width, up to 510 pixels tall on desktop. A taller photo is shown narrower rather than cropped.
### Is my post uploaded?
No. The preview is drawn in your browser. Nothing you type or add is sent anywhere or stored, and the page sets no cookies.
### How do I share a preview?
Copy link copies a link that opens this same preview: the text and settings ride in it after the #, which browsers never send to a server, and photos stay out. Download PNG saves the post as an image at twice its size, drawn in your browser.
### Why can a line wrap one word differently than on X?
X sets posts in its own typeface, Chirp, which isn’t free to use. The preview uses Roboto scaled to Chirp’s width, which breaks lines exactly where X does in about nine of ten posts on desktop.
## Flaghand
Flaghand's desk draws every X draft this way, and its owner approves exactly the preview they saw. Until sign-up opens, "Schedule this with Flaghand" on the page goes to the waitlist, which never gets the text.
Flaghand is X and LinkedIn posting for AI agents: your agent drafts through Flaghand's API, CLI or MCP server, you
approve the exact preview with your passkey, and Flaghand posts exactly that.
It is in early access: join the waitlist at https://flaghand.com/, or an agent can join for its person with POST https://flaghand.com/api/waitlist (https://flaghand.com/llms.txt shows how).
For agents: https://flaghand.com/llms.txt (this site) and https://app.flaghand.com/llms.txt (the product's agent guide).
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Source: https://flaghand.com/linkedin-post-preview.md
# LinkedIn post preview
https://flaghand.com/linkedin-post-preview draws a post exactly as LinkedIn's feed shows it: your name, headline, line
breaks, links and photo, as a person or a company page, on desktop or a phone, in light or dark, with where …see more
cuts it and LinkedIn's character count (3,000). Free, no sign-up. It runs in your browser: nothing you type or add is uploaded or stored, and there is no API.
## How to use it
1. Type or paste the post. Add your name and headline (a company page's followers go in the headline) and a photo if
the post has one.
2. Switch between Desktop and Phone, Light and Dark: the …see more cut moves with the width.
3. Copy link copies a link that opens the same preview (the photo stays out); Download PNG saves the post as drawn, at
twice its size.
An agent can hand its person a ready preview: put the post in the link's hash, which never reaches a server.
- https://flaghand.com/linkedin-post-preview#text=Hello%20world&name=Ada%20Lovelace&headline=Engineer&view=desktop&theme=light
Fields: text, name, headline, page=1 (a company page), view=desktop|phone, theme=light|dark.
## Questions.
### What does this LinkedIn post preview show?
Your post as LinkedIn’s feed draws it, on desktop or a phone, in light or dark: your name and headline (or your company page), its line breaks and photo, where …see more cuts it and its count against 3,000.
### When does LinkedIn show …see more?
After three lines of text in the feed, or two when the third line is blank. A phone fits fewer words on a line, so the cut comes sooner there.
### How long can a LinkedIn post be?
3,000 characters.
### How does LinkedIn show a photo?
One photo fills the card’s width at its own shape, up to 4:5 tall. A taller photo is shown at 4:5 with space on either side.
### Is my post uploaded?
No. The preview is drawn in your browser. Nothing you type or add is sent anywhere or stored, and the page sets no cookies.
### How do I share a preview?
Copy link copies a link that opens this same preview: the text and settings ride in it after the #, which browsers never send to a server, and photos stay out. Download PNG saves the post as an image at twice its size, drawn in your browser.
## Flaghand
Flaghand's desk draws every LinkedIn draft this way, and its owner approves exactly the preview they saw. Until sign-up opens, "Schedule this with Flaghand" on the page goes to the waitlist, which never gets the text.
Flaghand is X and LinkedIn posting for AI agents: your agent drafts through Flaghand's API, CLI or MCP server, you
approve the exact preview with your passkey, and Flaghand posts exactly that.
It is in early access: join the waitlist at https://flaghand.com/, or an agent can join for its person with POST https://flaghand.com/api/waitlist (https://flaghand.com/llms.txt shows how).
For agents: https://flaghand.com/llms.txt (this site) and https://app.flaghand.com/llms.txt (the product's agent guide).
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Source: https://flaghand.com/x-thread-maker.md
# X thread maker
https://flaghand.com/x-thread-maker splits long text into an X thread: at paragraph and sentence ends, every post within
280 as X's composer counts it (links 23, emoji 2, Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters 2), each post drawn as X
shows it. Free, no sign-up. It runs in your browser: nothing you type or add is uploaded or stored, and there is no API.
## How to use it
1. Paste the text. A line holding only --- forces a split there.
2. Move any split the page made, number the posts (1/n) if you like, and add your name, handle and a photo.
3. Copy each post in turn, or Copy link for a link that opens the same thread; Download PNG saves the whole thread as
drawn.
An agent can hand its person a ready thread: put the text in the link's hash, which never reaches a server, or each
post in order as post=… to hand over a thread already split.
- https://flaghand.com/x-thread-maker#text=First%20point.%0A%0A---%0A%0ASecond%20point.&name=Ada%20Lovelace&handle=ada&numbered=1
- https://flaghand.com/x-thread-maker#post=First%20point.&post=Second%20point.&name=Ada%20Lovelace&handle=ada&view=phone&theme=dark
Fields: text or post (repeated), name, handle, verified=blue|gold, numbered=1, view=desktop|phone, theme=light|dark.
## Questions.
### What does this X thread maker do?
It splits long text into a thread of X posts at the ends of sentences, keeps every post within 280 characters as X counts them, and draws each post exactly as X shows it. Copy the posts into X one by one, or schedule the thread with Flaghand.
### How does X count the characters in a post?
Each post holds 280. A link counts as 23 whatever its length, an emoji as 2, and each Chinese, Japanese or Korean character as 2. The count here follows X’s composer rule for rule, so a post that fits here fits on X.
### Where does it split?
At the end of a paragraph or a sentence. Only a sentence too long for one post breaks at a comma, then between words. A link is never cut.
### Can I move a split?
Yes. Under a post, the up arrow moves its last sentence to the next post and the down arrow brings the next sentence up. A line with only --- forces a split there.
### How do I post a thread on X?
In X’s composer, paste post 1, press + to add a post and paste post 2, and so on, then Post all. Or schedule the whole thread with Flaghand.
### Is my text uploaded?
No. The thread is made in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere or stored, and the page sets no cookies.
### How do I share a thread?
Copy link copies a link that opens this same thread: the posts and settings ride in it after the #, which browsers never send to a server, and your photo stays out. Download PNG saves the whole thread as one image at twice its size, drawn in your browser.
## Flaghand
Flaghand's API takes the same thread as one x_thread draft: its owner approves the whole thread once, and Flaghand posts each post under the one before. Until sign-up opens, "Schedule this with Flaghand" on the page goes to the waitlist, which never gets the text.
Flaghand is X and LinkedIn posting for AI agents: your agent drafts through Flaghand's API, CLI or MCP server, you
approve the exact preview with your passkey, and Flaghand posts exactly that.
It is in early access: join the waitlist at https://flaghand.com/, or an agent can join for its person with POST https://flaghand.com/api/waitlist (https://flaghand.com/llms.txt shows how).
For agents: https://flaghand.com/llms.txt (this site) and https://app.flaghand.com/llms.txt (the product's agent guide).
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/tiktok-slideshow-maker.md
# TikTok slideshow maker
https://flaghand.com/tiktok-slideshow-maker turns photos into the slides of a TikTok photo post: text on each in ten
styles TikTok users know and four fonts, each slide a 1080 × 1920 PNG (4:5, 1:1 and 16:9 too). It is Flaghand's own
slide editor and renderer. Free, no sign-up. It runs in your browser: your photos never leave it, and there is no API on
this page.
## How to use it
1. Add photos, or a text slide.
2. Write the text on each slide and pick its style and font.
3. Download slides: one PNG, a .zip of them, or on a phone the share sheet, to save them to its photos. Post them in
TikTok as a photo post.
## Questions.
### What does this TikTok slideshow maker do?
It turns your photos into the slides of a TikTok photo post. Put text on each one in the styles TikTok users know, then download every slide as a 1080 × 1920 PNG and post them in TikTok, or schedule the slideshow with Flaghand.
### What size is a TikTok slideshow?
1080 × 1920 pixels, 9:16, the whole phone screen. Slides can also be 4:5, 1:1 or 16:9, each 1080 wide. A photo post takes up to 35.
### How do I put text on a slide?
Choose Text and type on the slide. Drag the text where you want it, resize it by its handles, and pick its style, font, size and alignment.
### How do I post the slides on TikTok?
Get them into your phone’s photos: on a phone, Save slides does it in one step. In TikTok, tap +, then Upload, and choose the slides in order. Or schedule the slideshow with Flaghand.
### Are my photos uploaded?
No. The slides are drawn in your browser. Your photos aren’t sent anywhere or stored, and the page sets no cookies.
### Is a slide here what Flaghand posts?
Pixel for pixel. This page draws with Flaghand’s own slide renderer, the one that draws a slideshow before it’s approved and posted.
## Flaghand
A slide here is pixel for pixel what Flaghand posts. For agents, Flaghand's API makes the same slideshow as a tiktok_photo draft and renders it on the server: https://app.flaghand.com/docs/slideshows.md.
Flaghand is X and LinkedIn posting for AI agents: your agent drafts through Flaghand's API, CLI or MCP server, you
approve the exact preview with your passkey, and Flaghand posts exactly that.
It is in early access: join the waitlist at https://flaghand.com/, or an agent can join for its person with POST https://flaghand.com/api/waitlist (https://flaghand.com/llms.txt shows how).
For agents: https://flaghand.com/llms.txt (this site) and https://app.flaghand.com/llms.txt (the product's agent guide).
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/image-size-checker.md
# Image size checker
https://flaghand.com/image-size-checker shows how X and LinkedIn crop an image: up to four post photos laid out as X's
timeline and LinkedIn's feed show them, or a banner and a profile photo on each network's profile, on desktop and on an
iPhone, with what each network cuts. Free, no sign-up. It runs in your browser: your images never leave it, and there is
no API.
## How to use it
1. Pick Post (up to four photos for one post) or Profile (a banner and a profile photo).
2. Drop or choose the images.
3. Switch between Desktop and Phone, Light and Dark, and read what each network keeps and cuts.
An agent can open it set up: https://flaghand.com/image-size-checker#use=profile&view=phone (use=post|profile,
view=desktop|phone, theme=light|dark). The sizes to use are below.
## Sizes.
### X (Twitter)
Header **1500 × 500** 3:1, shown whole. Your profile photo covers its bottom left.
Profile photo **400 × 400** Shown as a circle. JPG, PNG or GIF up to 2 MB.
Post photo **1080 × 1350** 4:5, never cut, alone or in a set. Up to 5 MB.
### LinkedIn
Background **1584 × 396** 4:1, shown whole. Your photo covers part of its left side, more on a phone. Under 8 MB.
Profile photo **400 × 400** Shown as a circle.
Post photo **1080 × 1350** 4:5, the tallest the feed shows. A taller photo gets bars at its sides.
## Questions.
### What size is a Twitter (X) banner?
1500 × 500 pixels, a 3:1 image. X shows all of it, on desktop and on a phone, and your profile photo covers part of its bottom left corner.
### What size is a LinkedIn banner?
1584 × 396 pixels, a 4:1 image, as a JPG or PNG under 8 MB. LinkedIn shows all of it. Your profile photo covers part of its left side, and on an iPhone it covers most of the banner’s height there.
### What image size works for X posts?
1080 × 1350, a 4:5 photo, is never cut. X shows a single photo of any shape whole, narrower when it’s taller than the column allows. In a set of 2 to 4, a photo wider than 20:17 can lose its sides; square or taller never does. Photos can be up to 5 MB.
### What image size works for LinkedIn posts?
1080 × 1350, a 4:5 photo, is the tallest LinkedIn’s feed shows. A single photo is shown whole across the feed; a taller one gets bars at its sides. Several photos scroll sideways at one size, each cut to fit.
### What size is a profile photo on X and LinkedIn?
400 × 400 pixels for both. Each shows it as a circle, so the corners never show. X takes a JPG, PNG or GIF up to 2 MB.
### Is my image uploaded?
No. Everything is drawn in your browser. Your images aren’t sent anywhere or stored, and the page sets no cookies.
### Where do these layouts come from?
Posts are drawn by the same code as Flaghand’s post previews, measured on x.com and linkedin.com. X’s profile was measured on x.com in October 2026, on desktop and at an iPhone’s 390 px width. LinkedIn’s profile follows LinkedIn’s own screenshots of its desktop and iPhone apps.
## Flaghand
The post photos here are drawn by Flaghand's own X and LinkedIn renderers, the ones its desk previews drafts with, so an owner approves the crop people will see.
Flaghand is X and LinkedIn posting for AI agents: your agent drafts through Flaghand's API, CLI or MCP server, you
approve the exact preview with your passkey, and Flaghand posts exactly that.
It is in early access: join the waitlist at https://flaghand.com/, or an agent can join for its person with POST https://flaghand.com/api/waitlist (https://flaghand.com/llms.txt shows how).
For agents: https://flaghand.com/llms.txt (this site) and https://app.flaghand.com/llms.txt (the product's agent guide).
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/x-character-counter.md
# X character counter
https://flaghand.com/x-character-counter counts a post the way X does and shows what is left of its 280: every link 23,
emoji and Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters 2, rule for rule as x.com's composer counts, with the part past 280
marked. Free, no sign-up. It runs in your browser: nothing you type or add is uploaded or stored, and there is no API.
## How to use it
1. Type or paste the post: the count updates as you type.
2. Trim what is marked past 280, or see the post as X shows it in the X post preview (https://flaghand.com/x-post-preview).
An agent can open it with the text in the link's hash, which never reaches a server:
https://flaghand.com/x-character-counter#text=Hello%20world
## Questions.
### What is the character limit on X?
280 characters a post, counted the way X counts them. X Premium subscribers can post up to 25,000; the timeline shows the first part of a longer post, then Show more.
### How does X count characters?
A link counts 23 whatever its length. An emoji counts 2, even one made of several, like a skin tone, a family or a flag. Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters count 2 each, as do most symbols. Letters, numbers, spaces, most punctuation and line breaks count 1.
### Why is my count different from other counters?
Many counters count every letter of a link, and an emoji as 1. This one counts the way X’s own composer does, rule for rule, so it matches the number X shows.
### Do @mentions, photos or videos count?
An @handle you type counts like any other text. Photos, videos and GIFs count nothing, and neither do the names X adds above a reply.
### Is my text uploaded?
No. It is counted in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere or stored, and the page sets no cookies.
## Flaghand
This is the count Flaghand's desk uses for every X draft, before its owner approves it. Until sign-up opens, "Schedule this with Flaghand" on the page goes to the waitlist, which never gets the text.
Flaghand is X and LinkedIn posting for AI agents: your agent drafts through Flaghand's API, CLI or MCP server, you
approve the exact preview with your passkey, and Flaghand posts exactly that.
It is in early access: join the waitlist at https://flaghand.com/, or an agent can join for its person with POST https://flaghand.com/api/waitlist (https://flaghand.com/llms.txt shows how).
For agents: https://flaghand.com/llms.txt (this site) and https://app.flaghand.com/llms.txt (the product's agent guide).
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/linkedin-character-counter.md
# LinkedIn character counter
https://flaghand.com/linkedin-character-counter counts a post the way LinkedIn does and shows what is left of its 3,000:
UTF-16 code units, so most emoji count 2, an emoji with a skin tone or a flag 4, a formatter's bold or italic letter 2,
and a link its full length. It shows where …see more cuts the post on desktop or a phone. Free, no sign-up. It runs in your browser: nothing you type or add is uploaded or stored, and there is no API.
## How to use it
1. Type or paste the post: the count updates as you type.
2. Pick Desktop or Phone to see where …see more cuts it there, or see the whole post as LinkedIn shows it in the
LinkedIn post preview (https://flaghand.com/linkedin-post-preview).
An agent can open it with the text in the link's hash, which never reaches a server:
https://flaghand.com/linkedin-character-counter#text=Hello%20world&view=phone (view=desktop|phone).
## Questions.
### What is the character limit on LinkedIn?
3,000 characters a post. LinkedIn won’t post more.
### How does LinkedIn count characters?
Letters, numbers, spaces, punctuation and line breaks count 1 each, and so do Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters. Most emoji count 2; an emoji with a skin tone, or a flag, counts 4, and a family 8 or more. Bold and italic letters from a text formatter count 2 each. A link counts its full length.
### Where does …see more cut a post?
After three lines in the feed, on desktop and on a phone, and sooner when the third line is blank. That is about 230 characters of plain text on desktop and 155 on a phone; the counter marks where it falls in your text.
### Do hashtags and mentions count?
Yes. A hashtag counts every character, the # included, and a mention counts the name it shows.
### Is my text uploaded?
No. It is counted in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere or stored, and the page sets no cookies.
## Flaghand
This is the count Flaghand's desk uses for every LinkedIn draft, before its owner approves it. Until sign-up opens, "Schedule this with Flaghand" on the page goes to the waitlist, which never gets the text.
Flaghand is X and LinkedIn posting for AI agents: your agent drafts through Flaghand's API, CLI or MCP server, you
approve the exact preview with your passkey, and Flaghand posts exactly that.
It is in early access: join the waitlist at https://flaghand.com/, or an agent can join for its person with POST https://flaghand.com/api/waitlist (https://flaghand.com/llms.txt shows how).
For agents: https://flaghand.com/llms.txt (this site) and https://app.flaghand.com/llms.txt (the product's agent guide).
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/best-time-to-post.md
# Best time to post on X and LinkedIn in 2026
X peaks at 9 AM. LinkedIn at 4 PM. Times are local time, as the studies report them: Buffer's are the
poster's own clock wherever they post, Sprout Social's the audience's.
Page: https://flaghand.com/best-time-to-post. Updated 2026-10-25.
## Best time to post on X
- Best hours: 9, 10 and 11 AM (best first).
- Best days: Tuesday to Thursday.
- Quietest: 1 AM to 5 AM, and Saturday.
- Source: [Buffer, The Best Time to Post on Twitter/X in 2026: 8.7 Million Posts Analyzed](https://buffer.com/resources/best-time-to-post-on-twitter-x/) (8.7 million X posts, published 2026-03-13).
Every hour of the week, 100 for the busiest:
| Hour | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| 12 AM | 20 | 25 | 25 | 24 | 18 | 14 | 16 |
| 1 AM | 16 | 20 | 20 | 19 | 14 | 11 | 12 |
| 2 AM | 14 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 13 | 10 | 11 |
| 3 AM | 14 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 13 | 10 | 11 |
| 4 AM | 16 | 20 | 20 | 19 | 14 | 11 | 12 |
| 5 AM | 22 | 28 | 28 | 27 | 20 | 15 | 17 |
| 6 AM | 36 | 45 | 45 | 43 | 32 | 25 | 28 |
| 7 AM | 52 | 65 | 65 | 62 | 45 | 36 | 40 |
| 8 AM | 68 | 85 | 85 | 81 | 60 | 47 | 53 |
| 9 AM | 80 | 100 | 100 | 95 | 70 | 55 | 62 |
| 10 AM | 78 | 97 | 97 | 92 | 68 | 53 | 60 |
| 11 AM | 72 | 90 | 90 | 86 | 63 | 50 | 56 |
| 12 PM | 66 | 82 | 82 | 78 | 57 | 45 | 51 |
| 1 PM | 62 | 78 | 78 | 74 | 55 | 43 | 48 |
| 2 PM | 58 | 72 | 72 | 68 | 50 | 40 | 45 |
| 3 PM | 53 | 66 | 66 | 63 | 46 | 36 | 41 |
| 4 PM | 48 | 60 | 60 | 57 | 42 | 33 | 37 |
| 5 PM | 42 | 52 | 52 | 49 | 36 | 29 | 32 |
| 6 PM | 34 | 42 | 42 | 40 | 29 | 23 | 26 |
| 7 PM | 30 | 38 | 38 | 36 | 27 | 21 | 24 |
| 8 PM | 29 | 36 | 36 | 34 | 25 | 20 | 22 |
| 9 PM | 27 | 34 | 34 | 32 | 24 | 19 | 21 |
| 10 PM | 26 | 32 | 32 | 30 | 22 | 18 | 20 |
| 11 PM | 22 | 28 | 28 | 27 | 20 | 15 | 17 |
## Best time to post on LinkedIn
- Best hours: 4 PM, 3 PM and 11 AM (best first).
- Best days: Tuesday to Thursday.
- Quietest: 1 AM to 4 AM, and Saturday.
- Sources: [Buffer, The Best Time to Post on LinkedIn in 2026: 4.8 Million Posts Analyzed](https://buffer.com/resources/best-time-to-post-on-linkedin/) (4.8 million LinkedIn posts, published 2026-09-09); [Sprout Social, Best times to post on LinkedIn in 2026](https://sproutsocial.com/insights/best-times-to-post-on-linkedin/) (nearly 2 billion engagements, published 2026-03-31).
Every hour of the week, 100 for the busiest:
| Hour | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| 12 AM | 9 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 5 |
| 1 AM | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 4 |
| 2 AM | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 4 |
| 3 AM | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 4 |
| 4 AM | 9 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 5 |
| 5 AM | 14 | 17 | 18 | 17 | 15 | 6 | 7 |
| 6 AM | 23 | 28 | 30 | 28 | 25 | 11 | 12 |
| 7 AM | 37 | 46 | 48 | 46 | 39 | 17 | 19 |
| 8 AM | 51 | 63 | 66 | 63 | 54 | 23 | 26 |
| 9 AM | 61 | 74 | 78 | 74 | 64 | 27 | 31 |
| 10 AM | 69 | 84 | 88 | 84 | 72 | 31 | 35 |
| 11 AM | 74 | 90 | 95 | 90 | 78 | 33 | 38 |
| 12 PM | 73 | 88 | 93 | 88 | 76 | 33 | 37 |
| 1 PM | 72 | 87 | 92 | 87 | 75 | 32 | 37 |
| 2 PM | 73 | 89 | 94 | 89 | 77 | 33 | 38 |
| 3 PM | 76 | 93 | 98 | 93 | 80 | 34 | 39 |
| 4 PM | 78 | 95 | 100 | 95 | 82 | 35 | 40 |
| 5 PM | 72 | 87 | 92 | 87 | 75 | 32 | 37 |
| 6 PM | 62 | 76 | 80 | 76 | 66 | 28 | 32 |
| 7 PM | 51 | 63 | 66 | 63 | 54 | 23 | 26 |
| 8 PM | 39 | 48 | 50 | 48 | 41 | 18 | 20 |
| 9 PM | 28 | 34 | 36 | 34 | 30 | 13 | 14 |
| 10 PM | 19 | 23 | 24 | 23 | 20 | 8 | 10 |
| 11 PM | 12 | 15 | 16 | 15 | 13 | 6 | 6 |
## Your own best times
Flaghand learns an X account's own best times from its posts, and suggests the next best time for every draft. It
reads the account's original posts, compares each with the account's usual, and takes over from the studies once 60
posts have settled. LinkedIn doesn't share post analytics with apps, so LinkedIn times stay the studies'. With a
workspace token (scope read):
- GET https://app.flaghand.com/api/v1/workspaces/{workspace}/best-times?platform=x|linkedin: the next best times, each with why.
- GET https://app.flaghand.com/api/v1/workspaces/{workspace}/best-times/heatmap?platform=x|linkedin: every hour of the week.
Flaghand for agents: https://flaghand.com/llms.txt and https://app.flaghand.com/llms.txt.
## Questions
### What is the best time to post on X?
At 9, 10 and 11 AM in your local time, best Tuesday to Thursday. Buffer's 2026 study of 8.7 million X posts ranks Tuesday at 9 AM first, then Wednesday at 10 AM and 9 AM, and finds evenings from 6 to 11 PM and Saturdays weakest.
### What is the best time to post on LinkedIn?
At 4 PM, 3 PM and 11 AM in your local time, best Tuesday to Thursday. Buffer's 2026 study of 4.8 million LinkedIn posts finds 3 to 8 PM best, with Wednesday at 4 PM first. Sprout Social's 2026 study finds Tuesday 11 AM to 5 PM, Wednesday 11 AM to 4 PM and Thursday 11 AM and 1 to 5 PM. Both find weekends quiet.
### Which time zone are these times in?
Your own. Buffer normalizes its data so every time reads as local time: 9 AM means 9 AM where you are. Sprout Social lists local time too, in your audience's time zone.
### How is the heatmap made?
Each network's week is a weekday curve times an hour-of-day curve, set to what the studies report: their best and weakest days, their best hours and their quietest times. 100 is the busiest hour of the week. Buffer's charts cover 6 AM to 10 PM, so the night hours are an estimate. It's the map Flaghand starts every account from.
### Will my own best times be different?
Often: your audience isn't the average. Flaghand reads your X account's own posts, compares each with your usual, and learns your best hours once 60 posts have settled, then suggests the next best time for every draft. LinkedIn doesn't share post analytics with apps, so LinkedIn times come from the studies.
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/best-time-to-post-on-tiktok.md
# Best time to post on TikTok in 2026
Sunday at 9 AM, says Buffer. Tuesday to Thursday from 2 to 6 PM, says Sprout Social. The two 2026 studies disagree, so
each is here on its own. Times are local time, as both report them: post at the hours where your audience is.
Page: https://flaghand.com/best-time-to-post-on-tiktok. Updated 2026-10-26.
## Best time to post on TikTok, by Buffer
- Best: Sunday at 9 AM. Then Monday and Sunday at 1 PM. Saturday is the best day.
- Source: [Buffer, The Best Time to Post on TikTok in 2026: New Data from 7M Posts](https://buffer.com/resources/best-time-to-post-on-tiktok/) (7.1 million TikTok posts, published 2026-09-14).
Every hour of the week, read from the shades of Buffer's chart, 100 for its darkest; - where the chart has no hour (it covers 6 AM to 10 PM):
| Hour | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| 12 AM | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 AM | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2 AM | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 3 AM | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 4 AM | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5 AM | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 6 AM | 55 | 50 | 45 | 46 | 49 | 56 | 56 |
| 7 AM | 62 | 44 | 32 | 34 | 39 | 51 | 66 |
| 8 AM | 84 | 32 | 23 | 21 | 25 | 54 | 83 |
| 9 AM | 60 | 31 | 10 | 11 | 24 | 58 | 100 |
| 10 AM | 84 | 32 | 12 | 30 | 25 | 58 | 90 |
| 11 AM | 87 | 35 | 12 | 23 | 43 | 49 | 76 |
| 12 PM | 61 | 19 | 7 | 40 | 29 | 45 | 98 |
| 1 PM | 94 | 41 | 24 | 51 | 47 | 58 | 94 |
| 2 PM | 59 | 27 | 27 | 37 | 31 | 55 | 79 |
| 3 PM | 57 | 24 | 20 | 27 | 29 | 71 | 76 |
| 4 PM | 48 | 25 | 16 | 29 | 42 | 71 | 67 |
| 5 PM | 55 | 26 | 19 | 23 | 54 | 74 | 66 |
| 6 PM | 54 | 24 | 17 | 24 | 55 | 71 | 62 |
| 7 PM | 46 | 23 | 22 | 27 | 50 | 65 | 61 |
| 8 PM | 40 | 28 | 28 | 35 | 53 | 66 | 59 |
| 9 PM | 52 | 32 | 37 | 44 | 51 | 63 | 60 |
| 10 PM | 50 | 49 | 51 | 49 | 53 | 57 | 57 |
| 11 PM | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
## Best time to post on TikTok, by Sprout Social
- Best: Tuesday to Thursday, 2 to 6 PM. Weekends are quietest. Sunday is the worst day.
- Source: [Sprout Social, Best times to post on TikTok in 2026](https://sproutsocial.com/insights/best-times-to-post-on-tiktok/) (nearly 2 billion engagements, published 2026-03-31).
Every hour of the week, read from Sprout Social's chart, which shades it in seven steps (14, 29, 43, 57, 71, 86, 100 here):
| Hour | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| 12 AM | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 |
| 1 AM | 14 | 14 | 29 | 29 | 14 | 29 | 29 |
| 2 AM | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 |
| 3 AM | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 |
| 4 AM | 14 | 14 | 14 | 29 | 14 | 14 | 14 |
| 5 AM | 14 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 |
| 6 AM | 29 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 29 | 29 |
| 7 AM | 29 | 43 | 57 | 57 | 43 | 43 | 43 |
| 8 AM | 43 | 43 | 57 | 57 | 43 | 57 | 43 |
| 9 AM | 43 | 57 | 71 | 71 | 57 | 71 | 57 |
| 10 AM | 57 | 71 | 71 | 71 | 71 | 71 | 57 |
| 11 AM | 57 | 86 | 86 | 86 | 71 | 86 | 57 |
| 12 PM | 71 | 86 | 86 | 86 | 86 | 86 | 57 |
| 1 PM | 71 | 86 | 100 | 100 | 86 | 86 | 71 |
| 2 PM | 86 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 86 | 86 | 71 |
| 3 PM | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 86 | 71 |
| 4 PM | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 86 | 71 |
| 5 PM | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 86 | 86 |
| 6 PM | 71 | 100 | 100 | 86 | 86 | 57 | 57 |
| 7 PM | 71 | 86 | 100 | 71 | 71 | 57 | 57 |
| 8 PM | 71 | 86 | 100 | 71 | 71 | 57 | 57 |
| 9 PM | 57 | 71 | 86 | 71 | 57 | 43 | 57 |
| 10 PM | 43 | 57 | 57 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 |
| 11 PM | 29 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 29 |
## Your own best times
Your own results beat any study. In TikTok Studio, Analytics, then Followers shows when an account's followers were most
active. Post at those hours for a few weeks, compare each post with the account's usual, and keep what works.
The best times to post on X and LinkedIn: https://flaghand.com/best-time-to-post. Flaghand for agents:
https://flaghand.com/llms.txt and https://app.flaghand.com/llms.txt.
## Questions
### What is the best time to post on TikTok?
It depends on the study. Buffer's 2026 study of 7.1 million TikTok posts finds Sunday at 9 AM best, then Monday at 1 PM and Sunday at 1 PM. Sprout Social's 2026 study of nearly 2 billion engagements finds Tuesday to Thursday from 2 to 6 PM best. Both are in your local time.
### What is the best day to post on TikTok?
Buffer finds Saturday best, then Monday and Sunday, and Wednesday weakest. Sprout Social finds Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday best, and Sunday worst.
### Why do the studies disagree?
They measure different things on different accounts. Buffer ranks each hour by the median engagement rate of the posts sent then through Buffer. Sprout Social shades the week by engagement on its own customers' profiles. Neither audience is yours.
### Which time zone are these times in?
Your own. Buffer's chart is in local time, adjusted so its times work anywhere without converting. Sprout Social lists local time too: post at its hours in your audience's time zone.
### How is the heatmap made?
Neither study publishes its numbers, only a shaded week, so each hour here is read from the shade of the study's own chart: 100 is its darkest hour. Buffer's chart covers 6 AM to 10 PM, so its night hours are empty. Sprout Social shades its week in seven steps.
### How do I find my own best time to post on TikTok?
In TikTok Studio, open Analytics, then Followers: it shows when your followers were most active. Post at those hours for a few weeks, compare each post with your usual, and keep what works. Your own results beat any study.
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/linkedin-text-formatter.md
# LinkedIn text formatter
https://flaghand.com/linkedin-text-formatter gives a LinkedIn post bold, italic, bold italic and monospace letters and bullet or numbered
lists that LinkedIn keeps, and draws the post as LinkedIn's feed shows it, with where …see more cuts it and LinkedIn's count of its 3,000. LinkedIn has no formatting in posts, so the styles are other
Unicode letters, which survive any paste. Free, no sign-up. It runs in your browser: nothing you type or add is uploaded or stored, and there is no API.
## How to use it
1. Type or paste the post, or paste a draft written in Markdown and choose From Markdown: **bold**, *italic*, `code`,
headings and - lists become the same letters and • lists.
2. Select words and choose Bold, Italic, Bold italic or Monospace (⌘B, ⌘I), or start a Bulleted or Numbered list.
Plain takes styles off.
3. Copy text, and paste it into LinkedIn. Copy link copies a link that opens the same post; Download PNG saves it as
drawn.
Style a few words, not whole posts: screen readers and search read styled letters poorly, so keep names, handles,
hashtags and links plain. You can write the letters yourself: Unicode's mathematical sans-serif bold (A U+1D5D4,
a U+1D5EE, 0 U+1D7EC), italic (A U+1D608, a U+1D622; digits stay plain), bold italic (A U+1D63C, a U+1D656, digits bold)
and monospace (A U+1D670, a U+1D68A, 0 U+1D7F6); only A-Z, a-z and 0-9 have them. A list is "• " or "1. " at a
line's start.
An agent can hand its person a post to check and copy, already styled, in the link's hash, which never reaches a
server: https://flaghand.com/linkedin-text-formatter#text=Hello%20world&name=Ada%20Lovelace&headline=Engineer
Fields: text, name, headline, view=desktop|phone, theme=light|dark.
## Questions.
### How do I make text bold on LinkedIn?
LinkedIn has no bold button. Write or paste your post here, select the words and press Bold, then Copy text and paste the post into LinkedIn. The bold letters are Unicode characters, not formatting, so they stay bold.
### Does bold text show in the LinkedIn app?
Yes. The styled letters are characters like any other, so the feed shows them in LinkedIn’s apps and on the web.
### Do styled letters hurt accessibility or search?
They can. Screen readers may spell them out, read their Unicode names or skip them, and search, LinkedIn’s included, may not match them to the plain words. Style a few words for emphasis, and keep names, hashtags and key words plain.
### How do I add bullet points on LinkedIn?
Select the lines and press • List, or 1. List for numbers. Each line then starts with • or 1., 2., 3., plain characters LinkedIn shows as typed. Enter at the end of a list line starts the next one.
### Do styled letters count more of LinkedIn’s 3,000?
Yes. LinkedIn counts each bold, italic or monospace letter as 2, as it does most emoji. The count under your post includes it.
### When does LinkedIn show …see more?
After three lines of text in the feed, or two when the third line is blank. A phone fits fewer words on a line, so the cut comes sooner there. The preview shows where.
### Can I paste a draft written in Markdown?
Yes. Paste it and press From Markdown: \*\*bold\*\*, \*italic\*, \`code\`, headings and - lists become styled letters and • lists.
### Is my post uploaded?
No. Everything happens in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere or stored, and the page sets no cookies.
### How do I share it?
Copy link copies a link that opens this same post: the text and settings ride in it after the #, which browsers never send to a server, and your photo stays out. Download PNG saves the post as an image at twice its size, drawn in your browser.
## Flaghand
Flaghand's API takes styled text in a draft as it is. Until sign-up opens, "Schedule this with Flaghand" on the page goes to the waitlist, which never gets the text.
Flaghand is X and LinkedIn posting for AI agents: your agent drafts through Flaghand's API, CLI or MCP server, you
approve the exact preview with your passkey, and Flaghand posts exactly that.
It is in early access: join the waitlist at https://flaghand.com/, or an agent can join for its person with POST https://flaghand.com/api/waitlist (https://flaghand.com/llms.txt shows how).
For agents: https://flaghand.com/llms.txt (this site) and https://app.flaghand.com/llms.txt (the product's agent guide).
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/x-text-formatter.md
# X text formatter
https://flaghand.com/x-text-formatter gives a X post bold, italic, bold italic and monospace letters and bullet or numbered
lists that X keeps, and draws the post as X shows it, counted as X counts (a styled letter counts 2 of the 280). X has no formatting in posts, so the styles are other
Unicode letters, which survive any paste. Free, no sign-up. It runs in your browser: nothing you type or add is uploaded or stored, and there is no API.
## How to use it
1. Type or paste the post, or paste a draft written in Markdown and choose From Markdown: **bold**, *italic*, `code`,
headings and - lists become the same letters and • lists.
2. Select words and choose Bold, Italic, Bold italic or Monospace (⌘B, ⌘I), or start a Bulleted or Numbered list.
Plain takes styles off.
3. Copy text, and paste it into X. Copy link copies a link that opens the same post; Download PNG saves it as
drawn.
Style a few words, not whole posts: screen readers and search read styled letters poorly, so keep names, handles,
hashtags and links plain. You can write the letters yourself: Unicode's mathematical sans-serif bold (A U+1D5D4,
a U+1D5EE, 0 U+1D7EC), italic (A U+1D608, a U+1D622; digits stay plain), bold italic (A U+1D63C, a U+1D656, digits bold)
and monospace (A U+1D670, a U+1D68A, 0 U+1D7F6); only A-Z, a-z and 0-9 have them. A list is "• " or "1. " at a
line's start.
An agent can hand its person a post to check and copy, already styled, in the link's hash, which never reaches a
server: https://flaghand.com/x-text-formatter#text=Hello%20world&name=Ada%20Lovelace&handle=ada&view=phone
Fields: text, name, handle, view=desktop|phone, theme=light|dark.
## Questions.
### How do I make text bold on X?
Write or paste your post here, select the words and press Bold, then Copy text and paste the post into X. The bold letters are Unicode characters, not formatting, so X shows them like any other text, in its apps and on the web.
### Do bold letters count more on X?
Yes. X counts each styled letter as 2 of a post’s 280, as it does an emoji or a •, so a bold sentence takes twice the room. The count here is X’s own.
### Do styled letters hurt accessibility or search?
They can. Screen readers may spell them out, read their Unicode names or skip them, and search, X’s included, may not match them to the plain words. Style a few words for emphasis, and keep names, @handles, hashtags and key words plain.
### How do I add a list to a post on X?
Select the lines and press • List, or 1. List for numbers. Each line then starts with • or 1., 2., 3., plain characters X shows as typed. Enter at the end of a list line starts the next one.
### Where does X cut a long post?
Over 280, only X Premium can post it, and the timeline shows the first part, then Show more: it cuts at the last space within the first 280. The preview shows where.
### Can I paste a draft written in Markdown?
Yes. Paste it and press From Markdown: \*\*bold\*\*, \*italic\*, \`code\`, headings and - lists become styled letters and • lists.
### Is my post uploaded?
No. Everything happens in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere or stored, and the page sets no cookies.
### How do I share it?
Copy link copies a link that opens this same post: the text and settings ride in it after the #, which browsers never send to a server, and your photo stays out. Download PNG saves the post as an image at twice its size, drawn in your browser.
## Flaghand
Flaghand's API takes styled text in a draft as it is. Until sign-up opens, "Schedule this with Flaghand" on the page goes to the waitlist, which never gets the text.
Flaghand is X and LinkedIn posting for AI agents: your agent drafts through Flaghand's API, CLI or MCP server, you
approve the exact preview with your passkey, and Flaghand posts exactly that.
It is in early access: join the waitlist at https://flaghand.com/, or an agent can join for its person with POST https://flaghand.com/api/waitlist (https://flaghand.com/llms.txt shows how).
For agents: https://flaghand.com/llms.txt (this site) and https://app.flaghand.com/llms.txt (the product's agent guide).
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/utm-builder.md
# UTM builder
https://flaghand.com/utm-builder tags a link for the X, LinkedIn or TikTok post it goes in, as Flaghand tags its own
links: source x, linkedin or tiktok, medium social, then a campaign (one push's posts, e.g. launch_week) and a content
tag (one post, e.g. post_01), each lowercase with underscores for spaces. A link's other parameters and #fragment stay
as written; only those four tags are replaced. Free, no sign-up. It runs in your browser: nothing you type or add is uploaded or stored, and there is no API.
## How to use it
1. Paste a link, or pick Several links and paste links one a line, or a whole thread: each link is tagged in place and
numbered in its content tag (link_01, link_02, …).
2. Pick X, LinkedIn or TikTok; source and medium follow. Name the campaign and, for one link, its post.
3. Copy link (or Copy all), or Share these tags for a link that opens the builder set up the same way.
An agent can tag a link itself by these rules, or hand its person the builder set up, with the link and tags in the
link's hash, which never reaches a server:
- https://flaghand.com/utm-builder#link=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Flaunch&platform=x&campaign=launch_week&content=post_01
- https://flaghand.com/utm-builder#links=First%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fa%0ASecond%3A%20example.com%2Fb&platform=linkedin&campaign=launch_week
Fields: link or links, platform=x|linkedin|tiktok, source, medium, campaign, content.
## Questions.
### What is a UTM link?
A link with tags on its end, like ?utm\_source=x&utm\_medium=social, that tell your analytics where a visit came from. The page opens just the same. Google Analytics, Plausible, Fathom, PostHog and most other analytics tools read them.
### Which tags should I use for X, LinkedIn and TikTok?
Source names the network: x, linkedin or tiktok. Medium is social, which Google Analytics files under Organic Social. Campaign groups one push’s posts, like launch\_week, and content tells them apart, like post\_01. Analytics tools count Launch and launch apart, so the builder writes every tag in lowercase, with underscores for spaces.
### Does a tagged link use more of X’s 280 characters?
No. X counts every link as 23 characters, however long, and shows only its start. LinkedIn counts a link’s full length against its 3,000 and shows it as a short lnkd.in link that keeps the tags.
### Can I tag every link in a thread?
Yes. Pick Several links and paste the links, one a line, or the whole thread. Each link gets its own content tag, numbered in order (link\_01, link\_02 and on), so you can tell which post a visit came from, and Copy all gives the text back with the tagged links in place.
### What happens to a link’s own parameters?
They stay as written, in their order, and a #section stays at the end. Only the four tags the builder sets are replaced; utm\_term and utm\_id are kept.
### Can I put a link in a TikTok caption?
TikTok doesn’t make links in captions clickable. Tag the link in your profile’s website instead, with the TikTok preset.
### Is my link uploaded?
No. It is tagged in your browser. Nothing you paste is sent anywhere or stored, and the page sets no cookies.
## Flaghand
Flaghand tags the links in its own posts this way. Until sign-up opens, "Post it with Flaghand" on the page goes to the waitlist, which never gets the link.
Flaghand is X and LinkedIn posting for AI agents: your agent drafts through Flaghand's API, CLI or MCP server, you
approve the exact preview with your passkey, and Flaghand posts exactly that.
It is in early access: join the waitlist at https://flaghand.com/, or an agent can join for its person with POST https://flaghand.com/api/waitlist (https://flaghand.com/llms.txt shows how).
For agents: https://flaghand.com/llms.txt (this site) and https://app.flaghand.com/llms.txt (the product's agent guide).
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/privacy.md
# Privacy Policy
Published October 27, 2026 · Effective October 27, 2026
Flaghand is made by Trellisbyte LLC, a California company ("we", "us"). This policy covers flaghand.com, the Flaghand
app at app.flaghand.com, and Flaghand's API, CLI and MCP server.
## The short version {#summary}
- We keep what you put into Flaghand so we can post it where and when you approved: your account, your drafts and
media, and the logins for the accounts you connect.
- Nothing goes to X, LinkedIn, TikTok or Bluesky unless an owner of your workspace approved that exact post with their
passkey. Agents can draft; they can't approve or post.
- We don't sell your information, show you ads or use trackers. flaghand.com sets no cookies.
- Flaghand doesn't run AI models on your content or send it to an AI provider on its own. The agents and apps you connect are yours, under
their providers' terms.
- Export everything or delete your account in the app at any time, or email support@flaghand.com.
## What we collect and why {#collect}
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| **Waitlist:** your email, when you joined, and how you found us (the campaign tags in the link you followed, the domain of the site that sent you, the flaghand.com page you joined from) | To invite you when early access opens and to learn which channels bring people |
| **Account:** your email, an optional name, and your passkey's public key. Your fingerprint or face stays on your device; we never receive it. When you or your agent start a sign-up, we also keep how you found us: whether it started on the web or through an agent; the name the agent gives itself and how it says it found Flaghand; the name and version the agent's app reports and the kind of software it runs on (such as Claude Code or Node.js, not its full browser details); the directory named in the Flaghand address it used; the name and web address of the app you were connecting, if any; the campaign tags in the link you followed, the domain of the site that sent you and the page you started from | To sign you in, help you recover access, send account and billing email, and learn which channels bring people |
| **Notification devices:** if an owner turns on notifications on a device, its name (such as "Chrome on Mac" or "iPhone") and the push address and keys its browser gives us, which we store encrypted | To tell you when drafts wait for your approval or a post failed or is on hold. A notification carries counts and a link, never post text |
| **Billing:** Stripe takes your card (or your Apple Pay or Google Pay payment). We receive your plan, trial and renewal dates, payment status and amounts, the card's brand and last four digits, Stripe's fingerprint of the card (a code that tells cards apart, not the card number), and Stripe's customer and subscription IDs. We also keep a record of the automatic-renewal terms you agreed to | To run your subscription, give each card free days only once, and keep the records the law requires |
| **Connected accounts** (X, LinkedIn, TikTok, Bluesky): the account's ID, name, handle and profile picture (for Bluesky, also the server that hosts it), the permissions you granted, and the login tokens the platform issues, which we store encrypted | To post as that account, only what you approve, and to show which account each post goes to |
| **What we read from the platforms:** on X, the posts we published for you, your own recent posts when a thread waits for a post you make by hand, and the posts you reply to. If you turn on best times for an X account, we also read its original posts (up to the latest 800), their public numbers (views, likes, reposts, replies, quotes, bookmarks) and its follower count, every hour; we keep the numbers, the times and what kind of post each was, not its text. If you use suggestions on X, we also read, through X's API, the posts you or your agent want a reply to and who wrote them; if you turn on replies, the replies to your recent X posts and who wrote them; if you ask Flaghand to learn your voice from your X account, its recent original posts with their text and public numbers; and, if you choose X accounts or topics to watch, their recent public posts, with who wrote them and their public numbers. On TikTok, your posting options (who can view, comments) and each post's status. On Bluesky, the posts we published for you | To check a post before it goes out and that what went live matches what you approved, to suggest the best times to post, and, if an X post carries a plug (a reply you approved with it), to tell from best times' numbers when the post reaches the likes or views you set. To show you and your agents replies to your posts and posts worth a reply, and to help your agents suggest posts and replies in your voice and learn what works in your space |
| **Your content:** drafts, threads, images, videos, alt text, schedules, and notes your agents attach | To preview, check, schedule and publish it, to show your scheduled and posted posts in a calendar feed if you turn one on, to show drafts to the people you share a preview link with, and to send updates to the Slack or Discord channels and webhooks you add |
| **Suggestions and your voice profile:** the posts and replies your agents suggest and what happened to each (picked, edited, dismissed, sent back, approved, posted, or opened in X with Reply on X), your voice note, the lessons you and your agents record from your posts and choices, each with the posts, picks and edits behind it, and, if your agent sends them, style numbers it worked out from your X archive on your own computer (numbers and emoji only, never the archive or its posts) | So your agents can suggest posts and replies in your voice and get better at it. You can read, change or remove any lesson in Settings; one you remove isn't learned again |
| **Approvals:** the exact snapshot you approved, its fingerprint (hash), who approved it, with which passkey, and when | To prove each post was approved, and to post exactly that |
| **Posting records:** post IDs and links, status, errors, and the result of the live check | To show what happened and catch mismatches |
| **Agents and activity:** each API token's name, permissions and last use (we store only a hash of the token), the name and web address of each app you connect by signing in (such as Claude or ChatGPT), the name and version an app first reports, the kind of software it runs on and the directory named in the address it used, a log of who did what in your workspace (a person or an agent), and counts of posts, links and reads per workspace | Security, your audit trail, knowing what X charges us, and learning which agents and directories bring people |
| **Support:** what you send us | To help you |
| **Technical:** Cloudflare, our host, handles your IP address and browser details to deliver and protect Flaghand. We count visits to flaghand.com by page and by the campaign tags or site that sent them; the counts hold no IP address or cookie. We also count, per day, the apps that contact our MCP server before signing in (by the name they report) and the reads of our docs by AI services' crawlers and assistants (by page and by which one, such as ChatGPT or Claude); these counts hold no IP address, cookie or account. When the app hits an error in your browser, it sends us the page, the browser type, the app's version, whether the error came from our code, a browser extension or elsewhere, and a fingerprint (hash) of the error message instead of the message itself, and we count them; those counts hold no IP address, cookie, account or content. A cookie keeps you signed in to the app for up to 30 days | Delivery, security, fixing problems, and learning which channels bring people |
We don't collect your followers or contacts, your direct messages, or other people's private information. The posts of
accounts and topics you watch are there for you and your agents to find posts worth a reply and learn what works in
your space, such as formats, topics and timing. Flaghand doesn't build profiles of the people who wrote them, and it
never infers anyone's health, finances, politics, religion or beliefs, ethnicity, sex life, union membership or
criminal record.
## What we never do {#never}
- Sell or rent personal information, or share it for advertising.
- Post, reply, repost, like, follow, send messages or change your profile as you or your accounts on any platform,
except publishing the posts you approved and, on X, reposting one of them once, after the delay you approved with it.
- Add your location to a post.
- Use your content, or posts we read from X, to train AI models.
## Who else handles it {#sharing}
| Who | What for |
|---|---|
| Cloudflare | Hosts flaghand.com and the app; stores the database, media and logs; routes our email and sends account recovery email |
| Vercel | Hosts ss-content.com, our other domain. When you connect TikTok, TikTok sends you back to Flaghand through it, so it handles your IP address and browser details as a host does. TikTok also downloads photo-post images through it |
| Stripe | Payments, invoices and fraud checks. Stripe's own privacy policy covers the card details you give it |
| Apple, Google | If you pay with Apple Pay or Google Pay, Apple or Google handles that payment under its own terms and privacy policy. Google may also use information from Google Pay payments for its own analytics |
| Resend | Sends our other email, such as waitlist invitations, billing email and alerts when an approved post fails or is held |
| Browser push services | If you turn on notifications on a device, we send each one through the push service its browser uses, such as Apple's for Safari, iPhone and iPad, Google's for Chrome, Mozilla's for Firefox or Microsoft's for Edge. Each notification is encrypted, so the service can't read it; it sees the device's push address, when we send and how big the message is, and holds it until the device receives it, for up to four weeks |
| Calendar services | An owner, or an agent you gave the calendar permission, can turn on a calendar feed: your workspace's name and, for each scheduled, held or posted post, its platform, account, status, time, the first line of its text and a link to it in Flaghand. The calendar service you subscribe with, such as Apple's iCloud, Google Calendar or Microsoft Outlook, fetches the feed from its own servers and keeps the events under its own terms, and may keep them after the feed is off. Anyone who has the feed's private address can read it without signing in, so keep it private. A new address, or turning the feed off, stops the old one at once |
| Slack, Discord and your webhooks | An owner, or an agent you gave the webhooks permission, can have Flaghand send updates to a Slack or Discord channel, or to a web address they choose (a webhook). A channel gets a short message for each update chosen, by default when posts wait for approval and when a post goes out, fails or is held: what happened, the first line of the post (for an approval request, text that isn't approved or public yet) and a link to Flaghand. Slack or Discord, and everyone who can read that channel, receive it, and Slack or Discord keeps it under its own terms. A webhook receives the events chosen from your workspace's activity log, each with who did what and when, and details that can include notes and the first line of a post. Removing a channel or webhook stops new messages; what was already sent stays with Slack, Discord or whoever runs that address |
| People you share a preview link with | Anyone in your workspace, or an agent whose token can read and change drafts, can make a private link that shows one or more drafts to someone outside your workspace, such as a client. Anyone who has the link can open it without signing in. It shows each draft as it is now: its text, images, video and other details, the account it would post from (name, handle, profile picture, badges and, on LinkedIn, headline), its planned time, and whether it changed after the link was shared. It shows nothing else from your workspace, can't change or post anything, and asks search engines not to list it. Keep it private: whoever has it can pass it on. Revoking the link, or the token that made it, stops it at once, and a draft that's archived or deleted drops off it |
| Google (Gmail) | Our support inbox |
| X, LinkedIn, TikTok, Bluesky | When you connect an account, they receive the posts and media you approve, and send us the account details above. Their privacy policies cover what they do with it. On Bluesky, that's the server that hosts your account (Bluesky's own, or one you chose), and what you post there is public. To find that server, we look up your handle's DNS record (through Cloudflare) and its web address, and your account in Bluesky's public directory (plc.directory) or at the web address its ID names. Reply on X opens X's own site or app with your reply filled in, and X receives it from you when you post it there |
We also disclose information when the law requires it or to protect people's safety or our rights. When a platform's
developer terms require it, we report to that platform a breach of our Terms or of this policy that affects its users
(what happened, which of its accounts was involved and what we did), and help with its reviews of how Flaghand uses
its API. If Trellisbyte
or Flaghand is sold or merged, this information may move with it, and this policy keeps applying to it.
## Your agents {#agents}
An agent with an API token you created can read and change what that token's permissions allow, such as drafts,
media, approval requests, suggestions, your voice profile and the X posts we read for you. A token that can read and change drafts can also share them with people outside your
workspace through a preview link (see [Who else handles it](#sharing)). An app you connect by signing in, such as
Claude or ChatGPT, gets a token that can read, draft, add media, share drafts that way and ask for approval. No token
can approve, schedule or publish, whatever its permissions. What your agent's
provider does with what your agent reads is between you and that provider.
## TikTok photo posts {#tiktok-media}
To publish a photo post, TikTok downloads the images from a web address on our domain. The address is unlisted and
hard to guess, but anyone who has it can open the images until we take them down, which we do once TikTok has them.
Videos are uploaded straight to TikTok. More detail: [Flaghand and TikTok](/tiktok).
## How long we keep it {#retention}
| Information | How long |
|---|---|
| Waitlist entry | Until you create an account (then it's linked to it), ask us to remove it, or we close the waitlist |
| Account and workspace content | While your account exists. If your plan ends, we keep everything so you can come back, export it or delete it. If a workspace has had no plan for 12 months, we may delete it, after emailing its owners at least 30 days before |
| A sign-up that was started but not finished: its email and how you found us | Until you ask us to remove it, or you delete a Flaghand account with that email |
| Connected-account logins | Until you disconnect the account or delete your Flaghand account. We then delete them and, where the platform allows, revoke them |
| Billing records | As long as tax and accounting law requires |
| Automatic-renewal consent records | At least 3 years, or 1 year after your subscription ends, whichever is later (California law), even if you delete your account |
| Card check for free days: a coded copy of the fingerprint of each card that had free days, the date they began and a coded reference to that subscription, kept apart from your account | 3 years after those free days began, even if you delete your account |
| Other people's X posts and replies we read for you (posts you reply to, replies to your posts, posts from accounts and topics you watch), and your own X posts read to learn your voice | Only while Flaghand needs them: while they're in your inbox (replies to your posts, and watched posts you or your agents haven't decided on yet), while a suggestion or a lesson uses them, and, for your own posts, while your agents learn your voice from them. Never after your workspace is deleted. We keep our copy in step with X: when a post is deleted, made private or changed there, we delete or update it as soon as we can, and within 24 hours of a request from X or the post's author |
| Request logs | 7 days, at Cloudflare |
| Support email | As long as needed to help you and keep a record of it |
Deleted records and files can remain in our backups for up to 30 days, and then they're gone.
## Export, disconnect, delete {#your-data}
- **Export:** download your drafts and voice profile (as Markdown), media and records (as JSON) in the app or through the API, whether
or not your plan is active.
- **Disconnect** an account in Settings, or remove Flaghand in X's, LinkedIn's or TikTok's own settings.
Disconnecting stops our access. It doesn't remove posts already published; manage those on the platform.
- **Delete your account** in Settings (an owner, with their passkey). This cancels your plan at once, revokes your
connected accounts and deletes your workspace, except the billing, consent and card-check records described above.
- Or email support@flaghand.com and we'll do any of this for you.
## Your rights {#rights}
Depending on where you live, you can ask us for a copy of your information, to correct or delete it, to move it
elsewhere, or to restrict or object to how we use it, and you can withdraw consent you gave. Email
support@flaghand.com. We'll confirm it's you, usually by email from the address on the account, and answer within the
time the law sets. We won't treat you differently for using these rights. If you disagree with our answer, reply and
we'll review it; you can also complain to your data protection authority.
If you're in the EU or UK: we use your information to provide the service you signed up for (contract), to email
waitlist members who asked to hear about early access (consent), to keep Flaghand secure, prevent fraud and abuse, learn which
channels bring people and improve Flaghand (legitimate interests), to read public posts on X that an owner chooses
to reply to or watch, so they and their agents can reply and learn what works (legitimate interests, theirs and ours), and to keep
billing records (legal obligation). Trellisbyte LLC is the controller.
If you're on X and a Flaghand customer had us read your public posts, we show them only in that customer's workspace,
to its people and the agents they connect. You can ask us to delete our copy: email support@flaghand.com with the
posts or the account. Deleting your posts on X or making them private has the same effect.
We don't track you across other sites, so Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals have nothing to switch off
here; every browser is treated the same.
## Where it's processed {#transfers}
Trellisbyte is in the United States. Information is processed in the United States and other countries where our
providers operate, which may have different data-protection laws. Email us for details of the safeguards for your
information.
## Children {#children}
Flaghand is for people 18 and older. We don't knowingly collect information from children. If you think a child gave
us information, email us and we'll delete it.
## Security {#security}
We encrypt connections and the platform logins we store, store only hashes of API tokens, and use passkeys instead of
passwords. No system is perfectly secure. If a breach affects you, we'll tell you as the law requires.
## Changes {#changes}
We post changes here with a new date. If a change affects how we use information we already have, we'll email
account holders before it applies.
## Contact {#contact}
support@flaghand.com · Trellisbyte LLC, c/o Northwest Registered Agent, Inc., 2108 N St Ste N, Sacramento, CA 95816,
USA · [Business information](https://trellisbyte.com/company)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/terms.md
# Terms of Service
Published October 27, 2026 · Effective October 27, 2026
## Who we are {#company}
Flaghand is made by Trellisbyte LLC, a California limited liability company ("Trellisbyte", "we", "us"). These Terms
are an agreement between you and Trellisbyte for flaghand.com, the Flaghand app, and Flaghand's API, CLI and MCP
server (together, "Flaghand"). Our [Privacy Policy](/privacy) explains how we handle personal information.
## Who can use Flaghand {#eligibility}
You must be 18 or older and able to make a binding contract. If you use Flaghand for an organization, you confirm
you can accept these Terms for it. You can't use Flaghand where sanctions or export laws prohibit it.
Flaghand is in early access, so features will change.
## Your account, passkey and agents {#account}
- **You sign in with a passkey.** Keep the devices that hold it secure.
- **Approving is your act.** When you approve with your passkey, you're telling us to publish that exact post, to
that account, at that time, just as if you pressed Post yourself. If an X post carries a plug (a reply you approve
with it), you're also telling us to post that exact reply under it once, if our hourly reads show the post reaching
the likes or views you set within 8 days of going live; if they don't, the plug isn't posted. A reply to an X post
that doesn't mention or quote your account isn't posted by us: after you approve it, Reply on X opens X's own
composer with it filled in, and you post it there yourself, under X's rules. You're responsible for what you
approve.
- **Your agents act under your account.** What's done with an API token you created, including one an app got when you connected it, counts as done by you. Tokens
can draft, suggest, upload, check, share drafts through a preview link and ask for approval; they can't approve, schedule or
post. Keep tokens secret, and revoke
any you no longer trust.
- **Members** you invite can see and work in the workspace. Owners can approve.
## Connected accounts {#connections}
- Connect only accounts you own or are authorized to manage.
- When you connect an X, LinkedIn, TikTok or Bluesky account, you authorize us to use its login to publish what you approve,
to read what our [Privacy Policy](/privacy#collect) lists (such as what we published and the account's name and
picture), and to do what an owner approves with their passkey: repost an X post once after the delay approved with
it, edit the text of a LinkedIn post we published, or take down a post we published. You can disconnect at any time.
- Each platform's own terms and rules apply to what you post through it, including X's Rules and automation rules,
LinkedIn's User Agreement and Professional Community Policies, and TikTok's Terms of Service, Community
Guidelines, Music Usage Confirmation and Branded Content Policy, and Bluesky's Terms of Service and Community Guidelines (or
those of the server that hosts your Bluesky account).
- The platforms decide what they accept and show. They can change their APIs, limit posting or suspend accounts.
Flaghand isn't affiliated with or endorsed by X, LinkedIn, TikTok or Bluesky.
## Your content {#content}
You keep your rights in what you put into Flaghand. You let us store, copy, process, preview and send it to the
platforms you choose, and share it through the features you turn on, such as a calendar feed, only to run Flaghand
for you. Suggestions your agents write are yours to use, change or ignore. AI can be wrong, repetitive or close to
someone else's words, so read each one before you approve it. You confirm you have the rights to everything you post,
including text, images, video and music, and that you disclose paid promotions where the law or a platform requires
it. We don't claim ownership of your content or use it for advertising or AI training.
## Acceptable use {#acceptable-use}
You're responsible for what your agents draft and what you approve. Don't use Flaghand to:
- post spam, or the same or nearly the same content across several accounts;
- send bulk, aggressive or unwanted automated replies, mentions or messages;
- manipulate a platform with fake engagement, fake accounts or coordinated inauthentic activity, or get around a
platform's limits or bans;
- impersonate anyone, or mislead people about who you are or who paid for a post;
- post anything illegal, infringing, harassing or hateful, any content that sexualizes minors, malware or scams;
- break a platform's terms or rules;
- probe or break our security, reach other workspaces, or overload Flaghand;
- resell Flaghand, or share access outside your workspace other than through a feature made for it, such as a preview
link or a calendar feed.
We may remove content, pause posting or suspend an account that breaks these rules, and report it to the platform
involved when that platform's terms require us to. We'll tell you why unless the law or safety prevents it.
## Plans, free start and renewal {#billing}
- **Price.** $19 a month or $190 a year, in US dollars, plus any tax the law requires. The price is shown before
you pay.
- **Founding offer.** While Flaghand is in early access, the yearly plan may be offered at $149 for the first year.
After that year it renews at $190 a year until you cancel.
- **Free start.** A new workspace is free for its first 7 days, with no card. You and your agents can connect
accounts, draft, upload media and ask for approval. Approving, scheduling and posting need a card, and so do
preview links, calendar feeds and best times' reads of your X account.
- **Adding a card.** You add a card in Stripe Checkout, for example from your first approval link. If you open
Checkout during your first 7 days, the rest of them stay free: your plan starts and we charge your card when they
end, or up to 2 days later if you open it near the end. We show you the date and time before you agree. Each card
gets free days on Flaghand once: if yours already had them, we charge nothing and your plan doesn't start, and you
can then start it with that card, charged at once. If you open Checkout after your first 7 days, your plan starts
and we charge your card at once.
- **After 7 days without a card,** your workspace is read-only until you add one: you can still read and export
everything, disconnect accounts and revoke tokens, but you can't draft. Nothing is deleted then.
- **X posts.** Each month of your plan includes 300 posts to X per workspace, up to 30 of them with a link. A month
runs from one renewal day to the next (on a yearly plan, from that day each month), and posts during your free
days count toward the first. Each post of a thread, each plug and each repost counts once X accepts it, even if
it's deleted later. Past either number, an X post that comes due is held, not posted: give it a new time after the
count resets or, if only the link number ran out, remove the link. Billing shows what you've used and when it
resets. Posts to LinkedIn, TikTok and Bluesky aren't counted.
- **Automatic renewal.** Your plan renews at the end of each month or year, and we charge the plan price for the
next period, until you cancel. An introductory price lasts only for the period shown; renewals after it are at the
regular price.
- **Payments** are processed by Stripe and appear on your statement as FLAGHAND.
- **Price changes.** We'll email you at least 30 days before a new price applies to your renewal. You can cancel
before it does.
- **Failed payments.** If a payment fails, posting pauses while it's retried. If it still fails, your plan ends.
- **When your plan isn't active** (a payment failed, or the plan was cancelled or ended), Flaghand posts nothing,
including scheduled posts. Your drafts stay readable and exportable, and you can restart at any time. A post whose
time passed while your plan wasn't active doesn't go out later by itself; approve it again.
## Cancelling {#cancel}
Cancel at any time in Billing in the app, through the API, or by emailing support@flaghand.com. If you cancel before
your first charge, you aren't charged. After that, cancelling stops the next renewal, and your plan works until the
end of the period you paid for. Deleting your account cancels your plan at once. Free days without a card need no
cancelling: we charge nothing unless you add one.
## Refunds {#refunds}
- Payments are generally final, including for partly used periods, except as described here or where the law
requires otherwise. The free days are there so you can try Flaghand before you pay.
- **Billing mistakes.** If we charged you twice, after your cancellation took effect, or the wrong amount, we refund
the mistaken charge. Email support@flaghand.com with the details.
- **No access.** If you paid and can't use Flaghand because of a problem on our side, tell us. We'll fix it, or
refund the affected time if we can't.
- **EU and UK consumers** can withdraw from their plan within 14 days of adding their card, and we'll refund
everything paid under it. Tell us at support@flaghand.com, for example: "I withdraw from my Flaghand contract.
Account email: … Card added on: … Name: … Date: …".
- If a payment is refunded or reversed, the period it paid for ends.
- Nothing in these Terms limits consumer rights that the law doesn't allow us to limit.
## Changes to Flaghand {#changes-service}
We may add, change or remove features and supported platforms. If we stop offering Flaghand altogether, we'll email
account holders at least 30 days before, and refund the unused part of any yearly plan.
## Suspension and termination {#termination}
You can stop using Flaghand and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or close an account that breaks
these Terms or a platform's rules, puts others at risk, or isn't paid for, and we'll tell you why unless the law or
safety prevents it.
## Disclaimers {#disclaimers}
As far as the law allows, Flaghand is provided "as is" and "as available". We work to publish exactly what you
approved, when you approved it, but we don't promise that Flaghand will be uninterrupted or error-free, that a
platform will accept or show a post, or that a post will reach anyone. Checks, previews and suggestions help; they aren't
a guarantee.
## Limitation of liability {#liability}
As far as the law allows, Trellisbyte isn't liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive
damages, or for lost profits or data. Our total liability for any claim about Flaghand is limited to the greater of
what you paid us for Flaghand in the 12 months before the claim and US$50. These limits don't apply where the law
doesn't allow them, such as for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.
## Law and disputes {#disputes}
If you have a problem, write to us first, and we'll try to resolve it within 30 days.
- **Governing law.** These Terms are governed by California law.
- **Courts.** Disputes go to the state or federal courts in San Francisco County, California, though either of us
may use small-claims court.
- **EEA and UK consumers** can also bring claims in their own country's courts and keep the mandatory protections of
its law.
## Changes to these Terms {#changes}
We may update these Terms, and we'll post each new version with its dates. For changes that materially affect paid
plans, we'll email account holders at least 14 days before they apply, and give any longer notice the law requires.
If you don't accept a change, you can cancel before it applies. Where the law requires your consent, we'll ask for
it rather than treat silence as a yes.
## General {#general}
- These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about Flaghand.
- If part of these Terms can't be enforced, the rest still applies.
- Not enforcing a right isn't a waiver of it.
- We may transfer these Terms to whoever takes over Flaghand.
- We send notices to the email address on your account.
## Contact {#contact}
Support: support@flaghand.com · Legal notices: legal@trellisbyte.com · Trellisbyte LLC, c/o Northwest Registered
Agent, Inc., 2108 N St Ste N, Sacramento, CA 95816, USA
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/tiktok.md
# Flaghand and TikTok
Last updated October 25, 2026
Flaghand lets creators and their AI agents prepare photo slideshow posts and publish them to the creator's own
TikTok account, through TikTok's official Login Kit and Content Posting API. An agent can draft a post. Only the
account owner can send it to TikTok, from Flaghand's TikTok posting screen, by approving it with their passkey.
Flaghand never posts to TikTok without that approval.
## Connecting TikTok {#connect}
In Flaghand, open **Settings** and choose **Connect TikTok**. Flaghand sends you to TikTok's authorization screen,
where you sign in and approve access. You type your TikTok password only on TikTok. TikTok then returns you to:
`https://ss-content.com/api/tiktok/auth/callback`
Our server checks the request, exchanges TikTok's code for login tokens, stores the tokens encrypted, and records
your TikTok account ID and the permissions you granted.
## Permissions we ask for {#scopes}
| Permission | What Flaghand uses it for |
|---|---|
| `user.info.basic` | Your TikTok display name and avatar, so you can see which account a post goes to. Not your followers, messages or other content |
| `video.upload` | Sending a post to your TikTok inbox as a draft, which you finish and publish in the TikTok app |
| `video.publish` | Reading your current posting options from TikTok, and publishing directly to your account when you choose to |
## Before anything goes to TikTok {#posting-screen}
When you publish directly to your profile, Flaghand's TikTok posting screen shows, every time:
1. **Your account.** Your TikTok name and avatar, refreshed from TikTok when the screen opens. If TikTok says the
account can't post right now, or a video is longer than TikTok allows for it, Flaghand stops and tells you why.
2. **Title.** The caption, which you can edit.
3. **Who can view.** You choose from the options TikTok gives for your account. Nothing is chosen for you.
4. **Interactions.** Allow comments (and Duet and Stitch for videos) start off. Any your TikTok settings turn off are
greyed out.
5. **Disclose post content.** Off unless you turn it on. Then choose **Your brand** (labelled "Promotional content")
and/or **Branded content** (labelled "Paid partnership"). Branded content can't be private: "Only me" is
unavailable, with the note "Branded content visibility cannot be set to private."
6. **Declaration.** "By posting, you agree to TikTok's Music Usage Confirmation", and TikTok's Branded Content Policy
when Branded content is on, with links to both.
7. **Preview.** Every slide, exactly as it will be sent.
8. **Approve.** You approve with your passkey. That is your consent to send this post. Agents can't do this step.
After you approve, Flaghand tells you it can take a few minutes for the post to appear on TikTok, checks its status
until TikTok reports it finished or failed, and warns you not to send it twice while it's processing. Until TikTok
completes its review of Flaghand, posts published directly can only be private ("Only me"); sending drafts to your
inbox works either way.
When you send a post to your TikTok inbox instead, the screen shows your account, the caption, the preview and the
passkey approval, then tells you when the draft is in your inbox. You choose who can view it, comments, music and
disclosure in TikTok, then post it there.
Flaghand adds nothing to your content: no watermark, logo or Flaghand branding.
## What we receive and keep {#data}
- **From TikTok:** your TikTok account ID, display name and avatar link; the permissions you granted; access and
refresh tokens and when they expire (stored encrypted); the posting options TikTok returns when you post; and each
post's publish ID and status.
- **Not received:** your TikTok password, followers, messages, or anyone else's data.
- **Use:** only to run your posting in Flaghand. We don't sell it, use it for advertising, or train AI models on it.
- **Slide images:** to publish a photo post, TikTok downloads the images from an unlisted address under
`https://ss-content.com/pull`. We take them down once TikTok has them. Videos are uploaded straight to TikTok.
## Disconnecting and deleting {#disconnect}
- **Disconnect TikTok** in Flaghand's Settings: we revoke Flaghand's access at TikTok and delete the stored tokens.
- You can also remove Flaghand in TikTok's settings, under the apps you've given access to.
- Disconnecting doesn't remove posts already on TikTok; manage those in TikTok.
- Deleting your Flaghand account deletes the TikTok data we hold. Deleted records and files can remain in our
backups for up to 30 days. Details: [Privacy Policy](/privacy).
## Links {#links}
- Website: https://flaghand.com
- App: https://app.flaghand.com
- Privacy Policy: https://flaghand.com/privacy
- Terms of Service: https://flaghand.com/terms
- This page: https://flaghand.com/tiktok
- Contact: support@flaghand.com
Flaghand is made by Trellisbyte LLC. It isn't affiliated with or endorsed by TikTok.
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides.md
# Guides
## Compare Flaghand
### [Flaghand vs Agorapulse for teams that review posts](/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-agorapulse)
Agorapulse vs Flaghand for teams reviewing social posts: prices, networks, approval steps, edits after approval, and API and MCP access. Checked October 26, 2026.
### [Flaghand vs AuthoredUp for writing and scheduling LinkedIn posts](/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-authoredup)
AuthoredUp vs Flaghand for LinkedIn: formatting, feed previews and deep analytics in a Chrome extension versus your own drafting agent and passkey approval. Checked October 26, 2026.
### [Flaghand vs Ayrshare for agents and apps](/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-ayrshare)
Ayrshare vs Flaghand for developers: networks, API keys, pricing and the owner approval boundary. Facts checked October 26, 2026.
### [Flaghand vs Blotato for n8n, Make and AI agents](/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-blotato)
Blotato vs Flaghand for automated posting: prices, networks, n8n, Make, API and MCP access, and who approves each post. Checked October 26, 2026.
### [Flaghand vs Buffer for posting with AI agents](/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-buffer)
Buffer vs Flaghand for AI agents that draft social posts: where Buffer is better, and who can publish in each. Checked October 25, 2026.
### [Flaghand vs FeedHive for posting with AI agents](/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-feedhive)
FeedHive vs Flaghand for AI-written social posts: prices, networks, built-in AI, API and MCP access, and who approves before publishing. Checked October 26, 2026.
### [Flaghand vs Hootsuite for solo builders and small teams](/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-hootsuite)
Hootsuite vs Flaghand for a solo builder or small team: prices per seat, inbox, listening, reports, networks, AI agent access and approvals. Checked October 26, 2026.
### [Flaghand vs Hypefury for posting with AI agents](/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-hypefury)
Hypefury no longer supports X. Hypefury vs Flaghand for X, LinkedIn and AI agents that draft your posts: where Hypefury is better, and who can publish. Checked October 25, 2026.
### [Flaghand vs Late for agents and apps](/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-late)
Late's getlate.dev now redirects to Zernio. Compare its current API, pricing and networks with Flaghand's owner approval model. Checked October 26, 2026.
### [Flaghand vs Later when every post needs approval](/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-later)
Later vs Flaghand for people who want human approval before every post: workflow exceptions, pricing, networks, API and agent access. Checked October 26, 2026.
### [Flaghand vs Loomly for teams that review posts](/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-loomly)
Loomly vs Flaghand for teams reviewing social posts: prices, networks, approval steps, exact text and media, and what public API and MCP access is documented. Checked October 26, 2026.
### [Flaghand vs Metricool for people and agents](/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-metricool)
Metricool vs Flaghand: free and paid plans, analytics, networks, API and MCP access, and the owner approval boundary. Checked October 26, 2026.
### [Flaghand vs Mixpost for people and agents](/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-mixpost)
Mixpost vs Flaghand: open-source Lite, paid self-hosted and Cloud plans, networks, API and MCP access, and who can approve a post. Checked October 26, 2026.
### [Flaghand vs Ocoya for posting with AI agents](/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-ocoya)
Ocoya vs Flaghand for AI-written social posts: prices, networks, AI campaigns, API and MCP access, and whether each post needs human approval. Checked October 26, 2026.
### [Flaghand vs Outstand for agents and apps](/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-outstand)
Compare Outstand with Flaghand: monthly plans, usage charges, supported networks, hosted MCP and per-post owner approval. Checked October 26, 2026.
### [Flaghand vs Planable for approval workflows](/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-planable)
Planable vs Flaghand when a person must approve every post: required approvals, client review, pricing, networks, API and MCP. Checked October 26, 2026.
### [Flaghand vs Post for Me for agents and apps](/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-post-for-me)
Compare Post for Me with Flaghand: monthly pricing, networks, MCP access and who can authorize a post. Public sources checked October 26, 2026.
### [Flaghand vs Postiz for posting with AI agents](/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-postiz)
Postiz vs Flaghand for AI agents that draft social posts: where Postiz is better, open source included, and who can publish in each. Checked October 25, 2026.
### [Flaghand vs Publer for posting with AI agents](/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-publer)
Publer vs Flaghand for AI agents that draft social posts: prices and plans, networks, API and MCP access, and who approves each post. Checked October 26, 2026.
### [Flaghand vs Sendible for agencies and freelancers](/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-sendible)
Sendible vs Flaghand for several clients: prices, networks, client approval, reports, API and MCP access, and who can publish. Checked October 26, 2026.
### [Flaghand vs SocialBee for posting with AI agents](/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-socialbee)
SocialBee vs Flaghand for AI agents that draft social posts: prices and plans, networks, API and agent access, and who approves each post. Checked October 26, 2026.
### [Flaghand vs SocialPilot for agencies and freelancers](/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-socialpilot)
SocialPilot vs Flaghand for several clients: prices, networks, client approval, reports, API and MCP access, and who can publish. Checked October 26, 2026.
### [Flaghand vs Sprout Social for solo builders and small teams](/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-sprout-social)
Sprout Social vs Flaghand for a solo builder or small team: prices per seat, inbox, listening, reports, networks, API and AI agent access, and approvals. Checked October 26, 2026.
### [Flaghand vs Supergrow for LinkedIn with AI help](/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-supergrow)
Supergrow vs Flaghand for LinkedIn: built-in AI writing, interviews, team approvals and analytics versus your own drafting agent and passkey approval. Checked October 26, 2026.
### [Flaghand vs Taplio for LinkedIn with AI help](/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-taplio)
Taplio vs Flaghand for LinkedIn: built-in AI writing, inspiration and analytics versus your own drafting agent and passkey approval. Checked October 26, 2026.
### [Flaghand vs Tweet Hunter for X with AI help](/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-tweet-hunter)
Tweet Hunter vs Flaghand for X: built-in AI writing, a tweet library and analytics versus your own drafting agent and passkey approval. Checked October 26, 2026.
### [Flaghand vs Typefully for posting with AI agents](/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-typefully)
Typefully vs Flaghand for AI agents that draft X and LinkedIn posts: where Typefully is better, and who can publish in each. Checked October 25, 2026.
### [Flaghand vs Upload-Post for n8n, Make and AI agents](/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-upload-post)
Upload-Post vs Flaghand for automated posting: prices, networks, n8n, Make, API and MCP access, and who approves each post. Checked October 26, 2026.
## Post through the X, LinkedIn and TikTok APIs
### [Posting images and video through LinkedIn's API](/docs/guides/linkedin-api-images-and-video)
Upload images and post video through LinkedIn's API: initialize, transfer bytes, finalize video, check processing and create single-image or multi-image posts. Dated first-party limits and upload errors.
### [Posting to LinkedIn through its API: what a personal profile can do](/docs/guides/linkedin-api-personal-profile)
What LinkedIn's w_member_social permission can post to a personal profile, what needs other permissions, and what Flaghand does with it. Checked October 25, 2026.
### [TikTok's Content Posting API, explained](/docs/guides/tiktok-content-posting-api)
TikTok inbox upload vs Direct Post, unaudited app restrictions, audit requirements, photo posts, creator_info and posting limits. Checked October 26, 2026.
### [Posting to X from an AI agent: the APIs and MCP servers, compared](/docs/guides/x-api-and-mcp-servers-for-ai-agents)
X's own API and MCP server, Typefully, Buffer, Postiz and Flaghand for AI agents that post to X: drafts, scheduling, threads, media, approval, sign-in and price. Checked October 25, 2026.
### [X API OAuth 2.0 with PKCE, explained](/docs/guides/x-api-oauth-2-pkce)
Connect an X account with OAuth 2.0 PKCE: the authorization-code flow, posting and media scopes, public and confidential clients, rotating refresh tokens and common errors. Checked October 26, 2026.
### [X API pricing, explained for people who post](/docs/guides/x-api-pricing)
What X's pay-per-use API charges to post, post a link, post a thread, add alt text, read and delete, and what 1, 3 or 10 posts a day cost a month. Checked October 25, 2026.
### [X API rate limits for posting, explained](/docs/guides/x-api-rate-limits)
X's per-user and per-app posting rate limits, pay-per-use versus old plan quotas, what a Twitter API 429 means, reset headers and safe backoff. Checked October 26, 2026.
### [Threads, polls and media with the X API v2](/docs/guides/x-api-threads-polls-media)
How to post a thread, a poll and an image or video with the X API v2, with curl examples checked against X's OpenAPI spec and the price of each call. Checked October 26, 2026.
## Fix posting errors
### [LinkedIn API posting errors, explained](/docs/guides/linkedin-api-posting-errors)
What LinkedIn's API errors mean when a post fails, from expired tokens and 403 missing permissions to 422 duplicates and content errors, 429 limits and image, video and document upload states, and what fixes each. Checked October 26, 2026.
### [X API posting errors, explained](/docs/guides/x-api-posting-errors)
What X's API errors mean when a post fails, from 403 duplicate content and not permitted to 401, 429, media processing and size errors and the reply and quote limits, and what fixes each. Checked October 26, 2026.
## Write, schedule and approve posts
### [How to auto-post your blog's RSS feed to X and LinkedIn](/docs/guides/auto-post-rss-feed-to-x-and-linkedin)
IFTTT, Zapier, Make, dlvr.it, Buffer's content feeds and Flaghand's feed drafts compared for new blog posts on X and LinkedIn, including which still reach X, how often each checks and who reads a post first. Checked October 26, 2026.
### [Formatting a LinkedIn post](/docs/guides/formatting-a-linkedin-post)
How to format a LinkedIn post with line breaks, lists, bold-looking Unicode text, hashtags, mentions and link cards, and check where see more cuts it.
### [How to add alt text to images on X and LinkedIn](/docs/guides/how-to-add-alt-text-x-linkedin)
Add image descriptions on X and LinkedIn, with app steps, documented character limits and API alt-text fields. First-party sources checked October 26, 2026.
### [How to cross-post to X, LinkedIn and TikTok](/docs/guides/how-to-cross-post-x-linkedin-tiktok)
Cross-post one idea to X, LinkedIn and TikTok without copying the wrong length, links, tags or media. Network rules, a practical workflow and tools compared.
### [How to post to X Communities](/docs/guides/how-to-post-to-x-communities)
Post to an X Community in the app or with the API's community_id. Who can post, what followers see, which posts X refuses, and X's announced shutdown. Checked October 26, 2026.
### [How to schedule LinkedIn posts](/docs/guides/how-to-schedule-linkedin-posts)
Schedule LinkedIn posts with its own clock, a scheduling tool or the API. Profile and Page limits, supported formats and honest trade-offs, checked October 26, 2026.
### [How to schedule TikTok posts](/docs/guides/how-to-schedule-tiktok-posts)
Schedule TikTok posts with TikTok Studio, understand the documented scheduling window, and tell automatic publishing from an inbox draft. Checked October 26, 2026.
### [How to schedule X (Twitter) posts and threads](/docs/guides/how-to-schedule-x-posts-and-threads)
Schedule X posts on the web, in X Pro, with a scheduling tool or through the API. Compare plan access and thread, poll and media caveats. Checked October 26, 2026.
### [How to let an AI agent post on social media safely](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely)
Nine checks for AI-written social posts: passkey approval of the exact post, agent tokens that can't publish, and honest limits on read-back.
### [A social media approval workflow for clients and teams](/docs/guides/social-media-approval-workflow)
A practical social media approval workflow: draft, review, change, approve and schedule. Compare client approvals in Planable, Later, Hootsuite and Agorapulse, plus AI-agent drafts.
### [Social media image sizes for X, LinkedIn and TikTok](/docs/guides/social-media-image-sizes)
Post photos, carousels and documents, profile photos and banners, how each feed crops, file types and size limits for X, LinkedIn and TikTok, from each network's own docs. Checked October 26, 2026.
### [X (Twitter) and LinkedIn character limits, explained](/docs/guides/x-linkedin-character-limits)
X (Twitter) allows 280 characters, or 25,000 with Premium; LinkedIn posts allow 3,000. How links, emoji and CJK count, and what shows before "see more".
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Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/auto-post-rss-feed-to-x-and-linkedin.md
# How to auto-post your blog's RSS feed to X and LinkedIn
Point an RSS automation at your blog's feed, connect your X and LinkedIn accounts, and each new article goes out
as a post with its title and link. **dlvr.it** and **IFTTT** can still do that on X. **Zapier** and **Make** no
longer have an X integration, though both still post to LinkedIn. **Buffer's** content feeds work differently: they
list new articles, and you choose which ones become posts.
Most of these routes publish the moment they notice a new item, **without anyone reading the post first**. That is
what they're for, and it is also the risk: the post is built from whatever your feed says at that moment, including
a typo in a title, an article published by mistake or an old item whose identity changed.
Each tool's own help and integration pages were **checked on October 26, 2026**. This is a documentation check, not
a live posting test. The sources are linked beside the claims below.
## The routes at a glance
| Route | X | LinkedIn | How often it checks your feed | Does anyone read the post first? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IFTTT | Post a tweet (Pro) | Your personal profile (Pro) | Every hour on Free, 15 minutes on Starter, 5 minutes on Pro and Pro+ | No: the applet posts when the trigger fires |
| Zapier | No integration since August 31, 2023 | Your profile or a Page | 15 minutes on Free, 2 on Professional, 1 on Team and Enterprise | Only if you add its paid approval step |
| Make | No X app since May 30, 2025 | User or company text, image and video posts | Every 15 minutes by default; the shortest interval depends on the plan | No step for it in its RSS and LinkedIn modules |
| dlvr.it | X profiles | Profiles, Pages and Showcase Pages | Every 6 hours on Free, 5 minutes on Pro and Plus, 2 on Agency | No: it publishes when an item appears |
| Buffer content feeds | Through Buffer's X channel | Through Buffer's LinkedIn channels | When you open the feed or refresh it | Yes: nothing becomes a post until you choose it |
| Flaghand feed drafts | An X draft per new item | A personal-profile draft with a link card | Every hour | Yes: the owner approves each post with a passkey. Sign-up isn't open yet |
## IFTTT: one applet per network
IFTTT's [RSS Feed service](https://ifttt.com/feed) has two triggers: **New feed item**, and **New feed item matches**
for items containing a keyword or simple phrase. Pair one with [X's](https://ifttt.com/twitter) **Post a tweet** or
with [LinkedIn's](https://ifttt.com/linkedin) **Share a link** or **Share an update**, and put the item's title and
URL in the text.
- IFTTT marks both RSS triggers, Post a tweet and all four LinkedIn actions as **Pro** features. Check its
[plans](https://ifttt.com/plans) before you build.
- These are polling triggers. IFTTT checks the feed **every hour on Free, every 15 minutes on Starter and every 5
minutes on Pro and Pro+**, so on Free a post can go out up to an hour after the article.
- The LinkedIn actions share **on your LinkedIn profile**. The service lists no action for a company Page.
- IFTTT's X action warns that affiliate URLs in the text end in an action error.
## Zapier: LinkedIn yes, X no
[RSS by Zapier](https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/8496279482125-Trigger-Zap-workflows-from-new-RSS-feed-items)
starts a Zap with **New Item in Feed** (or **New Items in Multiple Feeds**). Its recommended setting, **Different
Guid/URL**, fires when a new URL appears in the feed. **Different Content** and **Anything is Different** also fire
when an existing item changes, which can post the same article again.
- Zaps [trigger only for new data](https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/8496244568589-How-Zap-triggers-work),
not for anything in the feed before you turned the Zap on. Polling runs every **15 minutes on Free, 2 on
Professional and 1 on Team and Enterprise**.
- On LinkedIn, Zapier's [LinkedIn integration](https://zapier.com/apps/linkedin/integrations) has **Create Share
Update** for your profile and **Create Company Update** for a Page.
- On X there is nothing to connect. Zapier's own help says its
[Twitter integration stopped working on August 31, 2023](https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/18657531069965),
because of X's API policy and pricing, and points to social media tools such as Buffer and Hootsuite instead.
Of the four automations, Zapier's help is the one that documents a built-in way to stop and read. Its Human in the Loop
[Request Approval](https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/38731463206029-Request-approval-to-keep-your-workflow-running-with-Human-in-the-Loop)
step pauses the Zap so a reviewer can approve, decline or change the content first. It is a premium app that needs a
paid Zapier account. Watch its **On timeout** choice: **Skip and continue** runs the rest of the Zap without a
response, so choose **End run** if nothing should post unread.
## Make: LinkedIn modules, no X app
Make's [RSS app](https://apps.make.com/rss) starts a scenario with **Watch RSS feed items**: the URL of an RSS or Atom
feed and the most items to return per run. Follow it with one of the [LinkedIn app's](https://apps.make.com/linkedin)
modules: **Create a User Text Post**, **Create a User Image Post** or **Create a User Video Post** for your profile,
or the matching **Company** modules for a Page.
- A polling trigger's **Choose where to start** setting
[applies only to the first run](https://help.make.com/types-of-modules). Starting from the current moment sends
only new articles; an earlier start can send old ones through too.
- A scenario [runs every 15 minutes by default](https://help.make.com/schedule-a-scenario), and the shortest interval
depends on your plan.
- Make [discontinued its X app](https://help.make.com/x-formerly-twitter-app-integration-discontinued): no new
scenarios from April 3, 2025, and existing ones stopped working on May 30, 2025. It suggests social media tools such
as Buffer and Hootsuite instead.
## dlvr.it: built for RSS, posts as it finds items
dlvr.it is an RSS-to-social service first. Add a feed and connect your accounts, and in its own words it
"[automatically publishes new content to your X / Twitter profile when items appear in your connected source](https://help.dlvrit.com/en/articles/14867314-using-x-twitter-with-dlvr-it)".
On [LinkedIn](https://help.dlvrit.com/en/articles/14867625-using-linkedin-with-dlvr-it) it publishes to profiles,
Pages and Showcase Pages, but not Groups.
- Its [plans](https://help.dlvrit.com/en/articles/15080088-dlvr-it-plans-overview-free-pro-plus-and-agency) check
feeds **every 6 hours on Free**, every 5 minutes on Pro and Plus and every 2 minutes on Agency. Free allows 10 posts
a month per profile.
- Its X posts [carry your link as plain text](https://help.dlvrit.com/en/articles/17233839-links-are-changing-on-x-formerly-twitter),
not a tappable link, because X charges $0.20 for each post with a tappable link sent through its API. It offers a
hosted link page and QR codes instead.
- Its LinkedIn page warns that LinkedIn monitors personal profiles for automated or duplicate content, and calls
Pages the safer choice for high-volume automated publishing. It publishes up to 50 posts per 24 hours to one
LinkedIn account.
- When it [stops posting new items](https://help.dlvrit.com/en/articles/15079377-why-isn-t-dlvr-it-posting-new-items-from-my-rss-feed),
the usual causes are feed caching, missing or repeated GUIDs and rate limits. Its "Republish items with updated
timestamps" setting works around missing GUIDs, but it can post duplicates when timestamps change on their own.
The help pages we read describe no step where someone reviews each post before it goes out.
## Buffer content feeds: you pick each one
Buffer's [content feeds](https://support.buffer.com/en-us/articles/using-content-feeds-in-buffer-aQcD1RyIir) live in
its **Create** space. Add a feed by URL or an OPML file, open it, hover over an article and choose **Create Post** (or
**Save as idea**). The post then goes through Buffer's normal composer and queue for your
[X](https://support.buffer.com/articles/using-xtwitter-with-buffer-nA84XnWtuU) and
[LinkedIn](https://support.buffer.com/articles/using-linkedin-with-buffer-K7tRkGD3mH) channels.
- Nothing posts by itself. Buffer describes feeds as inspiration and a starting place for your own posts.
- Free connects up to 3 feeds and paid plans up to 50. A feed shows what the site provides, typically 10 to 20 recent
articles, and refreshes when you open it.
It is the slowest route and the one where every post is one you chose.
## Flaghand: each new item becomes a draft, not a post
Flaghand's [feed subscriptions](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/feeds) sit between those two. It reads each subscribed RSS, Atom or
GitHub releases feed **every hour**, and each new item becomes **two drafts**: an X post and a LinkedIn post, each
holding the item's plain-text title, a blank line and its link. The LinkedIn draft also gets a link card built from
the item's own title and description.
- **Feeds only create drafts.** They never choose an account or a time, request approval, schedule or post.
- **No backlog.** The first successful read records what is already in the feed and makes no drafts. An item it has
seen never makes another pair, even if its title changes, and never overwrites your edits.
- **Someone reads it first.** You, or an agent such as Claude Code through Flaghand's API or MCP, turn the
title-and-link draft into a post, choose the account and time, check it and request approval. Only the owner can
approve the exact post and time, with a passkey. No agent token can approve, schedule or post.
- **Slower by design.** An hourly read plus an approval won't beat a two-minute check, and on LinkedIn it posts to
personal profiles, not company Pages.
**Flaghand sign-up is not open yet**, so this is not an account you can create by following this guide today.
[Join the Flaghand waitlist](/schedule). The [feeds reference](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/feeds) documents each call, and the
[agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) explains the approval boundary.
## Before you turn any of them on
- **Read your feed's titles as posts.** "Release notes v2.3.1" is fine in a feed reader and flat on X. Check what an
automation will actually send, and that long titles still fit X's 280 characters with the link.
- **Give every item a stable GUID.** Tools use it, or the URL, to decide what is new. A missing or changing one is how
the same article posts twice, or never.
- **Start from now.** On a first run, choose the option that skips what is already in the feed.
- **Budget for links on X.** Through X's pay-per-use API a post with a link costs $0.20, against $0.015 without one
(see [X API pricing](/docs/guides/x-api-pricing)). Every RSS post has a link.
- **LinkedIn shows the card you send.** Its
[Posts API](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/posts-api?view=li-lms-2026-10)
doesn't scrape a link's page: the tool has to supply the card's title, description and thumbnail. Preview a post in
the free [LinkedIn post preview](/linkedin-post-preview) or [X post preview](/x-post-preview), no account needed.
- **Decide who reads it.** If the answer is nobody, watch the first few posts go out and know how to delete one.
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-agorapulse.md
# Flaghand vs Agorapulse for teams that review posts
Agorapulse is a social media suite for publishing, answering messages and reporting across many networks. Flaghand is
a smaller publishing desk for people and their own AI agents. Both let a person review a draft before it goes out;
the difference is what happens to that approval if someone changes the post afterwards.
**Checked on October 26, 2026.** Every Agorapulse fact here comes from its own [pricing page](https://www.agorapulse.com/pricing/),
[approval workflow guide](https://support.agorapulse.com/en/articles/10346598-how-to-manage-post-approval-workflows),
[sending for approval guide](https://support.agorapulse.com/en/articles/8773562-how-to-send-a-post-for-approval),
[reviewer guide](https://support.agorapulse.com/en/articles/10353571-how-to-review-a-post-as-an-approver),
[MCP guide](https://support.agorapulse.com/en/articles/12960496-model-context-protocol-mcp-integration-explained),
[Open API overview](https://support.agorapulse.com/en/articles/12482304-agorapulse-s-open-api-explained) and
[API connection guide](https://support.agorapulse.com/en/articles/12417183-how-to-connect-to-agorapulse-s-open-api).
Prices and features change. This is a public-documentation comparison, not a signed-in product test.
## The short answer
- **Choose Agorapulse** for a shared inbox, client review, multi-stage approval chains, reports or more social networks.
- **Choose Flaghand** if your agent prepares X and LinkedIn posts and you want the server to require your passkey over
the exact text, media, account and time before anything can go out. It is not a replacement for Agorapulse's inbox or reports.
## What Agorapulse costs
These are US-dollar list prices **per user per month**, not the price for the whole team:
| Plan | Paid monthly | Monthly equivalent, billed annually | Approval features |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | $99 | $79 | No simple approval workflow |
| Professional | $149 | $119 | Simple, one-step approval workflows |
| Advanced | $199 | $149 | Simple workflows and bulk approval |
| Custom | Tailored pricing | Tailored pricing | Multi-step approval workflows |
Standard, Professional and Advanced each include 10 social profiles; Custom lists unlimited profiles. Extra profiles
cost more. X publishing is listed as a separate X Lite or X Plus add-on, with its price available on request, so don't
treat the subscription price as the complete cost of an X setup.
For example, three Professional seats at the annual rate are $357 a month equivalent, or $4,284 a year, before taxes
and add-ons. Flaghand is in early access: public sign-up is not open yet and its pricing is not public.
## Where Agorapulse is better
- **More networks.** Its pricing page lists Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn company Pages and personal profiles, TikTok,
X, YouTube, Threads, Pinterest, Bluesky and Google Business profiles. Network and post-format support vary; X needs
the add-on above. Flaghand posts to X and LinkedIn personal profiles; its TikTok access is still in TikTok's review.
- **An inbox, not just publishing.** Agorapulse collects messages, comments and reviews. Higher plans add assignments,
saved replies and more moderation tools. Flaghand has no shared social inbox.
- **Reports for the team or client.** Agorapulse includes audience and post reports and PDF/CSV exports; Advanced adds
scheduled reports and combined-profile reporting. Flaghand's X numbers help identify best times and top posts, not
a cross-network report builder or LinkedIn analytics.
- **Review chains.** Agorapulse can involve internal teammates and external reviewers, require everyone's approval,
and, on Custom, route through multiple stages. Flaghand has owners and editors, not a configurable multi-stage
client approval chain: editors draft and check, and owners approve.
## How Agorapulse review works
The author prepares the post with a date and time, selects reviewers or a workflow, adds an optional message, and
sends it for approval. Internal reviewers need suitable profile permissions; external reviewers use a Shared Calendar.
The author can require every selected reviewer to approve.
An internal reviewer opens the assigned post and chooses **Approve for all and save** or **Request changes**. An
external reviewer opens the post group and chooses **Approve** or requests changes. Approval schedules the post for
its chosen time, or advances it to the next workflow stage. An unapproved post is blocked at its scheduled time;
Agorapulse notes that approval within the next five minutes may still let it publish, but does not guarantee that.
That is useful human review. It is not the same as making an approved version immutable.
## Does approval cover the exact text and media?
**Agorapulse:** a person reviews the composed post, but its workflow guide explicitly lets profile Admins and Editors
unlock a locked post using **Edit this post** and save changes. After a completed workflow, the post stays Approved;
during a workflow, it stays on the same step. So approval status alone does not prove the current text and media are
unchanged from the version the reviewer saw. The cited pages do not describe a passkey signature over a content hash
or a final cryptographic check of that approved version before sending.
**Flaghand:** the agent checks each draft and requests approval through the desk. The owner reviews every post's
account, time, text, media and alt text. One passkey tap can approve the whole plan, but covers each post's snapshot:
Flaghand hashes the snapshots with SHA-256 and verifies the owner's signed assertion. The snapshot includes the exact
platform request. Changing posting content, media, account or time requires a new approval; the scheduler checks the
signed snapshot again immediately before sending. Internal labels and notes are not posting content.
The [approval reference](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/approvals) explains that boundary. It does not mean the owner must approve
posts one at a time, or that the software can prove they read every word.
## API and MCP access
Agorapulse has an **official remote MCP connector**, currently in beta, on all plans except Legacy. Its guide covers
Claude, ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, subject to those clients' subscription and configuration requirements. It can
read social data, generate drafts and add calendar notes. For new posts, it does not automatically publish: drafts
must be scheduled and published inside Agorapulse. Do not mistake that for an entirely read-only connector: it also
documents sending inbox replies, subject to an organization's inbox approval workflow when one is configured.
Its **Open API requires Custom**. The overview describes analytics, listening, inbox operations, calendar notes and
media uploads, and mentions creating drafts. The connection guide still calls the API read-only, despite describing
write operations. Those public pages are inconsistent; neither cited guide documents a general post scheduling or
publishing endpoint. If API publishing is essential, these pages are not enough to promise it.
Flaghand's [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) and [OpenAPI spec](https://app.flaghand.com/api/v1/openapi.json) are public.
Its API and MCP let an agent upload media, create or edit drafts, check them, request approval and read results. OAuth
connectors receive `read`, `drafts`, `media` and `request-approval`. **No API token scope can approve, schedule or post**;
owner approval routes refuse tokens regardless of scope. The CLI is not on npm yet; the hosted MCP does not require it.
## Side by side
| | Agorapulse | Flaghand |
|---|---|---|
| Best fit | Multi-network team publishing, inbox and reports | A person's agent prepares posts; an owner approves the exact plan |
| Entry price | Standard $99 per user monthly, or $79 equivalent billed annually | Early access; public sign-up and pricing not open |
| Team approval entry | Professional $149 monthly, or $119 equivalent billed annually, per user | Owner passkey approval; editors cannot approve |
| Approval stages | One-step from Professional; multi-step on Custom | One owner decision over each snapshot, optionally as one plan |
| Edit after workflow approval | Authorized edits can leave the post Approved | Posting-content changes need a new approval |
| New-post MCP writes | Drafts; schedule and publish in Agorapulse | Drafts, checks and approval requests; never approval or publication |
| Public API | Custom; public guides have conflicting read/write descriptions | Public reference; workspace-scoped token access |
| Shared inbox and reports | Yes | No shared inbox or cross-network report builder |
## After it posts
Flaghand reads X posts back and compares normalized text, author, hidden reply mentions, media count, available alt
text, reply chain and quote with the approved expectations. It does not verify link destinations or media-file bytes.
LinkedIn posts are not read back. Agorapulse offers post reports; the sources above do not document this kind of
comparison against an approved snapshot. A successful publish or an engagement report is not that comparison.
## Try Flaghand
Start with the [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents), or use the
[safety checklist](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely) to compare any publishing tool.
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule). For its current TikTok restrictions, see [Flaghand and TikTok](/tiktok).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-authoredup.md
# Flaghand vs AuthoredUp for writing and scheduling LinkedIn posts
AuthoredUp is a LinkedIn writing and analytics tool that works inside LinkedIn through a Chrome extension and on its
own web platform: text styling, feed previews, hook libraries, a calendar and detailed post analytics. Its API and MCP
let an AI assistant read your data and write drafts. Flaghand is a publishing desk for your own drafting agent: the
agent prepares the posts, and they go out only after you approve the exact post with your passkey.
**Checked on October 26, 2026.** Every AuthoredUp fact here comes from AuthoredUp's own
[pricing page](https://authoredup.com/pricing), [editor page](https://authoredup.com/product/editor),
[scheduling help article](https://help.authoredup.com/articles/linkedin-scheduling-native-how-it-works),
[MCP guide](https://help.authoredup.com/articles/how-to-connect-and-use-mcp),
[API overview](https://help.authoredup.com/api-docs/overview) and
[API specification](https://help.authoredup.com/api-docs/spec/v1). Prices and features change, so check those pages
before you choose.
## The short answer
- **Choose AuthoredUp** if you write your LinkedIn posts yourself and want formatting, a desktop and phone feed
preview, hook and ending libraries and analytics of your whole LinkedIn history, right inside LinkedIn. Its MCP also
lets an assistant study your posts and prepare drafts for you to publish.
- **Choose Flaghand** if your agent already writes the posts and you want a separate desk to post them at their time,
only after the server has your passkey approval over the exact post. Flaghand also posts to X.
## Where AuthoredUp is better
- **Formatting and preview while you write.** AuthoredUp's editor adds bold and italic text, bullets, numbered lists
and emoji, with a readability grade and length insights. Its preview shows the feed on desktop and mobile, in light
and dark mode, including the "See more" fold. In Flaghand, you can edit drafts in the desk or sync them with Markdown
files or an Obsidian vault through the CLI. Its desk draws each post the way LinkedIn's feed does, with "… more"
where the feed cuts it, for you to review and approve.
- **Writing aids.** AuthoredUp has libraries of opening hooks and closing lines, unlimited snippets, and Coauthor, an
AI writer that learns your voice from your posts. Every plan includes Coauthor credits, with more as a paid add-on;
AuthoredUp says it is in closed beta. Flaghand leaves writing to your agent.
- **LinkedIn analytics.** The extension collects your past LinkedIn posts with their numbers, going back years.
AuthoredUp reports impressions, reactions, comments and engagement rate, and for personal posts saves, sends, reach,
profile views and followers gained. It adds a best-time heatmap built from your own history, side-by-side post
comparison and CSV export. Flaghand doesn't currently provide LinkedIn analytics or read-back.
- **Company pages and groups.** AuthoredUp publishes or schedules as company pages you admin, with no per-page charge,
and posts into LinkedIn groups. Flaghand publishes to LinkedIn personal profiles, not company pages or groups.
- **Teams.** The Business plan adds shared drafts, a team calendar, roles and team analytics, billed per connected
profile rather than per person. A read-only link lets someone without an account review a draft.
- **A trial you can start now.** AuthoredUp offers a free trial without a credit card. Flaghand is in early access:
public sign-up isn't open yet.
## Your own agent: both have an MCP
AuthoredUp's MCP server connects Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex and other clients through an OAuth sign-in, and
offers everything its API does: your posts with their statistics, saved posts, profile and company history, and draft
management. A personal API key is available on every plan, trial included. Since July 20, 2026 the API can create and
update drafts with styled text, @-mentions, tags, the profile or company that should post it, and a planned publish
time. Its specification says those drafts can't carry media attachments, and that the draft tools don't publish or
schedule anything on LinkedIn. The API allows 100 requests an hour per user.
So in AuthoredUp an assistant prepares and a person publishes: you open the draft in the editor and post or schedule it
yourself. Its scheduling help article (updated January 31, 2025) says AuthoredUp has no scheduler of its own. It uses
LinkedIn's native scheduling, which LinkedIn has to have turned on for your account, at least 30 minutes ahead, and not
every attachment type can be scheduled. Its pricing page says scheduling runs through the extension.
Flaghand splits the work the other way. Your agent drafts, uploads photos, video or a PDF document, checks the posts
and sends you a plan; once you approve it, Flaghand's own scheduler posts each part at its time. No API token scope can
approve, schedule or post, on any plan. Those routes refuse every token and accept only an owner signed in with a
passkey. Apps connected to Flaghand's MCP server by OAuth receive `read`, `drafts`, `media` and `request-approval`:
enough to prepare a plan and ask you to review it, not to make it live. Its API, OpenAPI spec and MCP tool reference
are public.
## What you approve in Flaghand
Your agent checks the drafts and sends you one approval request in the desk. Approving freezes each post into a
snapshot: the account, time, text, media, alt text and exact publishing request. Flaghand hashes it with SHA-256 and
records your passkey signature over the hash. Changing the text, media, account or time needs a new approval, and the
scheduler checks the signed snapshot again right before posting.
Flaghand's check flags anything that wouldn't post exactly as previewed. This is a publishing check, not a promise that
the writing will perform well. If you format posts by hand,
[Formatting a LinkedIn post](/docs/guides/formatting-a-linkedin-post) covers line breaks, bold and italic Unicode
letters, lists, hashtags, mentions and where "see more" cuts a post. Flaghand's free
[LinkedIn text formatter](/linkedin-text-formatter) and [post previewer](/linkedin-post-preview) work without an
account; the previewer shows desktop or phone, light or dark.
## After it posts
Flaghand reads each X post back and compares it with what you approved: normalized text, author, hidden reply mentions,
media count, available alt text, reply chain and quote. It doesn't verify link destinations or media-file bytes, and
LinkedIn posts aren't read back. AuthoredUp's analytics measure how your LinkedIn posts perform; Flaghand's X check
shouldn't be mistaken for a LinkedIn feature.
## TikTok slideshows
Through Flaghand's [slideshow API](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/slideshows), an agent lays out a TikTok photo slideshow: photos, text
and styles, slide by slide. One renderer draws it for the preview you approve and for the images TikTok receives, pixel
for pixel, and approval covers the render hash. The free [TikTok slideshow maker](/tiktok-slideshow-maker) uses the same
renderer. TikTok is still reviewing Flaghand: [Flaghand and TikTok](/tiktok) says what you can post until it finishes.
This isn't a reason to replace AuthoredUp if LinkedIn writing and analytics are what you need.
## Side by side
| | AuthoredUp | Flaghand |
|---|---|---|
| Paid plans, monthly billing | Individual $19.95 a month, one profile; Business $14.95 a month per profile, at least 3 profiles; Custom Growth by quote, at least 10 profiles | Early access; public sign-up isn't open yet |
| Yearly billing | Individual $199.50 a year; Business $149.50 a year per profile | No public plans yet |
| Trial | Free, no credit card; the pricing page doesn't state its length | No public sign-up yet |
| Writing help | Text styling, hook and ending libraries, snippets; Coauthor AI in closed beta | Bring your own agent; free formatter page |
| Preview | Desktop and mobile, light and dark, with the "See more" fold | The desk draws X and LinkedIn posts as their feeds do, with LinkedIn's "… more"; free previewer for desktop or phone |
| LinkedIn analytics | Past posts, per-post metrics, best times, CSV export and API | Not available |
| Publishing | LinkedIn profiles, company pages and groups; scheduling through LinkedIn's own scheduler | X and LinkedIn personal profiles, posted by Flaghand's scheduler; TikTok in review |
| Agent access | API and MCP: read your data, create and update drafts; no publish or schedule tools | API, MCP, agent skill and webhooks; tokens can't approve, schedule or post |
| Approval | You publish or schedule each post yourself in the editor | Owner passkey signature over the exact publishing snapshot |
The AuthoredUp prices are from its pricing page's monthly and yearly tabs. Check its current billing options before
subscribing. Flaghand's access status above was checked on October 26, 2026.
## Bringing your drafts
AuthoredUp's API lists your drafts as JSON, and its analytics export to CSV. If you save the posts you want to keep as
CSV or JSON, Flaghand's [migration recipe](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents#migrate-from-another-scheduler) describes its generic
import format. The import creates drafts, with old times as proposed times: it doesn't approve or schedule them, and it
doesn't cancel anything already scheduled in LinkedIn. This is a file-based recipe, not a one-click AuthoredUp
migration.
## Try Flaghand
The [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) covers the API and MCP server.
[How to schedule LinkedIn posts](/docs/guides/how-to-schedule-linkedin-posts) compares LinkedIn's own scheduler,
publishing tools and the API. [How to let an AI agent post on social media safely](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely)
has nine checks to run on any tool, this one included. [Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-ayrshare.md
# Flaghand vs Ayrshare for agents and apps
Ayrshare and Flaghand both expose social publishing through an API. They solve different integration problems.
Ayrshare lets your application publish or schedule with an API key. Flaghand lets your application or agent prepare
posts, but only a workspace owner can authorize publishing, with a passkey over the exact snapshot.
Every Ayrshare fact here comes from its own [pricing page](https://ayrshare.com/pricing/),
[quickstart](https://ayrshare.com/docs/quickstart),
[posting API](https://ayrshare.com/docs/apis/post/post) and
[supported networks](https://ayrshare.com/docs/apis/post/social-networks/overview), read on October 26, 2026.
Prices and capabilities change; check those sources before you build.
## The short answer
- **Choose Ayrshare** to add publishing to your own app, serve many customers, reach more networks, or let a backend
publish without a required per-post owner approval step.
- **Choose Flaghand** when an agent writes for a person and you want the server to enforce that the agent cannot
approve, schedule or publish, even if the agent has its token.
## Where Ayrshare is better
- **Much broader network coverage.** Its posting docs include Instagram, Facebook Pages, YouTube, Pinterest, Threads,
Bluesky, Google Business Profile, Reddit, Snapchat and Telegram, as well as X, LinkedIn and TikTok. LinkedIn includes
personal profiles and organization pages. Flaghand posts to X and LinkedIn personal profiles; its TikTok posting
remains subject to TikTok's review. Don't choose Flaghand for an Instagram or company-page integration.
- **A plain API key can publish.** After the social account is connected, your server can submit a post with
`Authorization: Bearer API_KEY`. There is no mandatory passkey tap on every post. That is a better fit for unattended
publishing from an app you control.
- **A multi-customer publishing backend.** Ayrshare's user profiles group a customer's connected networks. Its API uses
the main API key plus a `Profile-Key` header to address a user profile. You don't have to model a person's publishing
desk as the core of your integration.
- **Analytics and publishing operations.** Ayrshare documents network post IDs and links, analytics, comments,
history and webhooks. Flaghand's X read-back check isn't a substitute for a broad analytics API.
## Pricing and access
Ayrshare lists Premium at $149 a month for one profile, Launch at $299 a month for up to 10 profiles, and Business
from $599 a month with 30 profiles included and graduated charges for more. Business starts at $499 a month billed
annually. Enterprise is custom-priced. Its 28-day free trial is for Launch; the other plans charge at sign-up.
A profile groups networks for one customer, brand or location, not one staff seat. The plans advertise unlimited
scheduled posts, with basic analytics on Premium and advanced analytics on the higher plans.
Flaghand is in early access and public sign-up isn't open yet. This guide doesn't quote a Flaghand price; use
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule) for its current entry point. Don't compare a single-person desk with a
multi-customer API subscription by the headline price alone.
## Who can publish
Ayrshare's `POST /api/post` publishes immediately when `scheduleDate` is omitted, or schedules for the supplied time.
Its posting API also offers `requiresApproval`, which defaults to false. That is an optional approval workflow, not a
claim that Ayrshare has no approvals. A publishing API key can submit a post without opting into that workflow.
Flaghand also uses a Bearer token, so the difference isn't the spelling of the authentication header. It is what the
credential can do. No API token scope can approve, schedule or post. Flaghand's OAuth MCP connectors receive `read`,
`drafts`, `media` and `request-approval`, not a publishing permission. The owner connects the social account and approves
in Flaghand; an agent cannot do either on their behalf.
## What you integrate
The [live OpenAPI spec](https://app.flaghand.com/api/v1/openapi.json) describes Flaghand's agent-side sequence:
1. Upload media and create a draft with `createDraft`. Set `post_at` to propose a time; this doesn't schedule a job.
2. Run `checkDraft` to see whether that revision can post as previewed. A successful check isn't an approval.
3. Call `requestApproval` with the draft ID and revision. The owner reviews the request in Flaghand and approves there.
4. Read the resulting jobs and use `verifyJob` for the available live check. Don't treat a request for approval as a
successful publication.
Ayrshare's corresponding integration can be a direct posting request with a `platforms` array and an optional
`scheduleDate`. Keep its returned ID, inspect platform errors, and use history or webhooks for the final scheduled
outcome. Acceptance of a scheduled request isn't proof that every network published it.
## What you approve
Flaghand freezes the account, time, text, media, alt text and outgoing request into a snapshot. It hashes that snapshot
with SHA-256 and records your passkey signature over the hash. Changing the posting content, account or time needs a
new approval. The scheduler checks the signed snapshot again just before posting. Its X and LinkedIn previews are drawn
to match the real sites, and the draft check flags things that wouldn't post as previewed.
Ayrshare's cited posting docs describe an optional approval flag, not this same passkey-signed snapshot contract.
Choose that contract only if it fits your product: Flaghand's required owner step is friction if your goal is a fully
unattended publishing service.
## After it posts
Flaghand reads each X post back and compares normalized text, author, hidden reply mentions, media count, available
alt text, reply chain and quote with the approval. It doesn't verify link destinations or media-file identity, and it
has no LinkedIn read-back. Ayrshare returns publishing status, network IDs and available links, and offers history,
webhooks and analytics; the cited docs don't describe Flaghand's snapshot comparison. Neither an API success response
nor this limited comparison proves every detail of a post looks right forever.
## TikTok slideshows
Flaghand's [slideshow API](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/slideshows) lets an agent lay out photos and text as slides. One renderer draws
it for the preview you approve and for the images TikTok receives; approval covers the render hash. The free
[TikTok slideshow maker](/tiktok-slideshow-maker) uses that renderer too. [Flaghand and TikTok](/tiktok) explains what
posting is available while TikTok reviews Flaghand. Ayrshare documents TikTok video and multi-photo publishing today.
## Side by side
| | Ayrshare | Flaghand |
|---|---|---|
| Core fit | A publishing API for your app and its customers | A publishing desk for a person and their agents |
| API authentication | Bearer API key; Profile-Key for a user profile | Bearer workspace token or OAuth MCP |
| Can that credential publish? | Yes; approval is optional | No API token can approve, schedule or post |
| Networks | Many more, including Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn pages | X and LinkedIn personal profiles; TikTok subject to review |
| Approval boundary | Optional requiresApproval flag, false by default | Owner's passkey over the exact snapshot |
| After publication | Status, IDs, links, history, webhooks and analytics | Limited X snapshot read-back; none on LinkedIn |
| Access | Paid plans; 28-day Launch trial | Early access; public sign-up not open yet |
## Try Flaghand
Read the [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) for the API and MCP contract, and
[How to let an AI agent post safely](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely) for checks to apply to any integration.
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-blotato.md
# Flaghand vs Blotato for n8n, Make and AI agents
Blotato and Flaghand both let an n8n workflow, a Make scenario or an AI agent send social posts through an API or an
MCP server. They answer one question differently: can the automation publish by itself? With Blotato, a request made
with your API key publishes now or at the time it names. With Flaghand, the automation drafts and asks, and the post
goes out only after the workspace owner approves that exact post with a passkey.
Every Blotato fact here was checked on October 26, 2026 on its own [pricing page](https://www.blotato.com/pricing),
[pricing rate card](https://www.blotato.com/pricing.md),
[API reference for agents](https://help.blotato.com/start-with-an-ai-agent/llm),
[MCP tools reference](https://help.blotato.com/start-with-an-ai-agent/mcp/tools) and its
[n8n](https://help.blotato.com/integrations-and-automation-templates/n8n) and
[Make](https://help.blotato.com/integrations-and-automation-templates/make.com) guides. Prices and features change;
check those pages before you choose.
## The short answer
- **Choose Blotato** if you want AI to make the content too, you post to Instagram, TikTok, YouTube or other networks
beyond Flaghand's X and LinkedIn personal-profile focus, or your workflow should publish without anyone approving
each post. Flaghand's TikTok posting is subject to TikTok's review.
- **Choose Flaghand** if your workflow or agent writes for a person who must approve exactly what goes out, and you
want the server, not the agent's instructions, to enforce that.
## Where Blotato is better
- **Nine networks.** Blotato publishes and schedules to Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Facebook, X, Threads, Bluesky,
Pinterest and YouTube, and its LinkedIn posting covers personal profiles and company Pages. Flaghand posts to X and
LinkedIn personal profiles; its TikTok posting is subject to TikTok's review.
- **It makes the content.** Every plan includes unlimited AI writing, AI images and video, AI voices and captions,
ElevenLabs voiceovers and viral templates; credits pay for generated images and video. Flaghand has no built-in
writer or image generator: your own agent writes, and Flaghand previews, checks and posts what it wrote.
- **Its own n8n node and Make modules.** Both are listed from the Starter plan, and Creator adds help troubleshooting
your n8n and Make automations. Flaghand has neither: you use n8n's HTTP Request, Make's HTTP module or Zapier's
Webhooks, with the exact requests in
[Flaghand from n8n, Make, Zapier and GitHub Actions](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/automations).
- **Analytics, comments and DMs.** Its API reports post analytics on eight networks (not LinkedIn yet) and handles
comments, direct messages and keyword-triggered DM replies on Instagram and Facebook. Flaghand's X read-back check
isn't an analytics or inbox product.
- **Unattended publishing.** A request made with the API key publishes, so a workflow can run with nobody watching.
Flaghand always waits for the owner.
## Where Flaghand is better
- **The approval is the server's rule.** No API token can approve, schedule or post, so a leaked token, a looping
workflow or a confused agent can't publish on its own.
- **You approve what will actually post.** The desk draws each post as X and LinkedIn show it, the check flags
anything that wouldn't post as previewed, and the approval covers that exact snapshot.
- **One call per plan.** A workflow drafts, checks and asks for approval in one request, retried safely with an
`Idempotency-Key`, and signed notifications tell it what the owner decided.
## Pricing and access
Blotato sells three monthly plans: Starter at $29 a month with 20 connected social accounts and 1,250 AI credits,
Creator at $97 with 40 accounts and 5,000 credits, and Agency at $499 with 100 accounts and 28,000 credits. Yearly
billing saves about 17% and is chosen in its billing portal. There's no per-post fee, but each plan caps the posts
queued at any one time at 200, 1,000 and 3,000, and each Facebook Page or LinkedIn company Page counts as its own
account.
There's no free plan. The 7-day trial needs a card and includes 60 AI credits, but not the API or MCP: generating an
API key ends the trial and starts the paid plan, and n8n and Make need that key too. If you're automating, plan to pay
from the first day.
Flaghand is in early access and public sign-up isn't open yet. This guide doesn't quote a Flaghand price; use
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule) for its current entry point.
## What you integrate
Blotato's REST API lives at `https://backend.blotato.com/v2` with a `blotato-api-key` header, and its MCP server at
`https://mcp.blotato.com/mcp`. Claude Code, Claude.ai and ChatGPT can connect to it with OAuth; Cursor and several other
clients send the API key in a header. `POST /posts`, or the MCP tool `blotato_create_post`, publishes straight away,
or schedules with `scheduledTime` or the next free slot. It returns a submission ID to poll until the post is
`published` or `failed`; Blotato's own docs warn that a submitted or scheduled request isn't proof of publication.
Flaghand's [live OpenAPI spec](https://app.flaghand.com/api/v1/openapi.json) describes the same work in a different order:
1. From n8n or Make, one `createPost` request drafts, checks and asks for approval, and returns the owner's
`approval_url`, or each draft's problems and fixes. See the exact [n8n](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/automations#n8n-http-request)
and [Make](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/automations#make-http) requests.
2. An agent can take the steps one at a time: upload media, `createDraft`, `checkDraft`, then `requestApproval` with
the draft ID and revision. A proposed `post_at` time doesn't schedule anything, and a passing check isn't an
approval.
3. Register a [signed event receiver](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/automations#register-signed-event-notifications) to hear when
the owner decides or a job finishes, then read the jobs and use `verifyJob` for the live check.
Agents connect to Flaghand's remote MCP server with a workspace token or OAuth; the
[agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) has the setup for each client.
## Who approves each post
Blotato's API reference tells an assistant to get the user's approval for each write before it publishes. That rule is
an instruction to the agent. The pages above don't describe an approval step on Blotato's side that a post waits for,
or a key that can draft without publishing: whoever holds the API key, workflow or agent, can publish. Its TikTok
`isDraft` option sends a post to the TikTok app to finish there, for that network only.
Flaghand also uses a Bearer token, so the difference isn't the authentication header but what the credential can do.
No API token scope can approve, schedule or post. Flaghand's OAuth MCP connectors receive `read`, `drafts`, `media` and
`request-approval`, not a publishing permission. The owner connects each social account and approves in Flaghand; an
agent or workflow can't do either on their behalf.
## What you approve
Flaghand freezes the account, time, text, media, alt text and outgoing request into a snapshot. It hashes that snapshot
with SHA-256 and records your passkey signature over the hash. Changing the posting content, account or time needs a
new approval, and the scheduler checks the signed snapshot again just before posting. That required step is friction
if you want a fully unattended pipeline; it's the point if a person's name is on every post.
## After it posts
Flaghand reads each X post back and compares normalized text, author, hidden reply mentions, media count, available
alt text, reply chain and quote with the approval. It doesn't verify link destinations or media-file identity, and it
has no LinkedIn read-back. Blotato returns each post's status and public URL, and its analytics cover posts published
through it. Neither a success response nor this limited comparison proves every detail of a post looks right.
## TikTok slideshows
Flaghand's [slideshow API](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/slideshows) lets an agent lay out photos and text as slides. One renderer
draws it for the preview you approve and for the images TikTok receives, so approval covers the render hash.
[Flaghand and TikTok](/tiktok) explains what posting is available while TikTok reviews Flaghand. Blotato publishes
TikTok videos and photo posts today.
## Side by side
| | Blotato | Flaghand |
|---|---|---|
| Core fit | A social media API and MCP server with AI content creation | A publishing desk for a person and their agents |
| Networks | Nine, including Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and LinkedIn Pages | X and LinkedIn personal profiles; TikTok subject to review |
| n8n and Make | Its own n8n node and Make modules | n8n HTTP Request, Make HTTP module, Zapier Webhooks |
| API and MCP | REST with `blotato-api-key`; hosted MCP with OAuth or the key | REST with a Bearer workspace token; remote MCP with the token or OAuth |
| Can that credential publish? | Yes | No API token can approve, schedule or post |
| Who approves each post | The agent's instructions; the cited docs show no approval step on Blotato's side | The owner's passkey over the exact snapshot |
| After publication | Status, public URL, analytics on eight networks | Limited X snapshot read-back; none on LinkedIn |
| Price | From $29 a month; no free plan | Early access; public sign-up not open yet |
| Trial | 7 days with a card; no API or MCP during it | Early access |
## Try Flaghand
Read [Flaghand from n8n, Make, Zapier and GitHub Actions](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/automations) for copyable workflow requests,
the [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) for the API and MCP contract, and
[How to let an AI agent post safely](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely) for checks to apply to any integration.
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-buffer.md
# Flaghand vs Buffer for posting with AI agents
Buffer and Flaghand both let an AI agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor or your own) draft your posts through an
API or an MCP server. The difference that matters is who can make a post go live. A Buffer connection has the same reach
over your content as you have. A Flaghand agent token can't publish anything.
Every Buffer fact here comes from Buffer's own [pricing page](https://buffer.com/pricing),
[MCP server documentation](https://developers.buffer.com/guides/integrations/mcp.html),
[API authentication guide](https://developers.buffer.com/guides/authentication.html) and
[help center](https://support.buffer.com/articles/managing-and-approving-draft-posts-57li7M8tDA), read on October 25,
2026. Prices and features change, so check those pages before you choose.
## The short answer
- **Choose Buffer** for a free plan, many more networks, analytics, replying to comments, or a team that writes together.
- **Choose Flaghand** if your agent writes the posts and you want a rule the server enforces: nothing goes out until you
approve the exact post with your passkey.
## Where Buffer is better
- **It has a free plan.** Free costs $0 for up to 3 channels, 10 scheduled posts per channel at a time and 1 user, with
API access. Paid plans have a 14-day free trial, and you add payment details only if you stay. Flaghand has no free
plan, and it's in early access: sign-up isn't open yet.
- **Many more networks.** Buffer publishes to Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn profiles and pages, X, YouTube,
Threads, Pinterest, Google Business Profile, Bluesky, Mastodon and Substack. Flaghand posts to X and LinkedIn personal
profiles; its TikTok posting waits on TikTok's review.
- **More for teams and for after you post.** Analytics, a community inbox for replying to comments, an AI assistant, a
hashtag manager and first-comment scheduling. The Team plan adds unlimited members, approval workflows and access
levels per channel.
- **More integrations.** Zapier, Make, n8n, IFTTT, Canva and others. Both tools have an API and an MCP server that AI
apps connect to by OAuth (Buffer's is at `https://mcp.buffer.com/mcp`).
## Who can publish
Buffer's API key "acts on behalf of your account" and reaches every organization and channel in it. Apps that connect by
OAuth ask for scopes, and one scope, `posts:write`, covers creating and managing posts: Buffer lists no scope that can
draft but not publish. Its MCP server's `create_post` "schedules or publishes a post", including `shareNow`, and Buffer's own
security note says a connected assistant has "the same reach over your content as you have". The check it recommends is
your AI app's prompt before each tool call that writes: "Leave the approval prompts on."
Buffer's Team plan can hold an agent back. Posts from a user with the Needs Approval role "will always be saved as
drafts awaiting approval", including those made through the API and the MCP server. So an agent connected as its own
Needs Approval user drafts, and someone with Full Access approves. On Free and Essentials there is one user, so the
connection you give an agent can publish.
Flaghand doesn't depend on whose key it is or which plan you're on. No API token scope can approve, schedule or post.
Those routes refuse every token and accept only an owner of the workspace, signed in with a passkey. Apps that connect to
Flaghand's MCP server by OAuth, such as Claude and ChatGPT, get a draft-only token: `read`, `drafts`, `media` and
`request-approval`.
## What you approve
In Buffer, an approver reviews the draft, can edit it, and clicks Approve, which adds it to the queue or schedules it.
The account owner and Full Access users can also move any draft to the queue without a request.
In Flaghand, the agent checks its drafts and asks you to approve them. Approving freezes each post into a snapshot: the
account, the time, the text, every media file and its alt text, and the exact request that will be sent. Flaghand hashes
it with SHA-256 and records your passkey signature over the hash. Changing the text, media, account or time needs a new
approval, and the scheduler checks the signed snapshot again right before posting. Flaghand draws X and LinkedIn posts to
match the real sites, and its check flags anything that wouldn't post exactly as previewed.
## After it posts
Flaghand reads each X post back and compares it with what you approved: normalized text, author, hidden reply mentions,
media count, available alt text, reply chain and quote. It doesn't verify link destinations or the media files
themselves, and LinkedIn posts aren't read back. Buffer's API documentation, read on October 25, 2026, gives a sent post
its time and link, or an error, and describes no comparison like this.
## TikTok slideshows
Through Flaghand's [slideshow API](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/slideshows), an agent lays out a TikTok photo slideshow: photos, text
and styles, slide by slide. One renderer draws it for the preview you approve and for the images TikTok receives, pixel
for pixel, and the approval covers that render's hash. The free [TikTok slideshow maker](/tiktok-slideshow-maker) uses the
same renderer. TikTok is still reviewing Flaghand: [Flaghand and TikTok](/tiktok) says what you can post until it
finishes. Buffer publishes images and video to TikTok business profiles today.
## Side by side
| | Buffer | Flaghand |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes: up to 3 channels, 10 scheduled posts per channel, with the API | No |
| Paid plans | Essentials $6 a month per channel ($5 billed yearly); Team $12 a month per channel ($10 billed yearly); less per channel above 10; 14-day trial | Early access; sign-up isn't open yet |
| Networks | Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn, X, YouTube, Threads, Pinterest, Google Business Profile, Bluesky, Mastodon, Substack | X and LinkedIn personal profiles; TikTok in TikTok's review |
| Agent access | API, MCP (OAuth or API key), Zapier, Make, n8n | API, MCP (OAuth or API token), agent skill, webhooks |
| Can the agent's credential publish? | Yes, unless its user has the Needs Approval role (Team plan) | No, on any plan |
| Approval | The owner or a Full Access user clicks Approve (Team plan) | Your passkey signature over the exact post |
| Check after posting | Sent, with a link, or an error | X: text, mentions, media count, alt text, thread and quote. LinkedIn: none |
## Moving your posts over
Flaghand's [migration recipe](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents#migrate-from-another-scheduler) reads Buffer's current GraphQL API
format: each post's text, time, channel and media, with X threads kept as one draft. It also reads Buffer's bulk-upload
CSV. From a saved file, `flaghand import FILE --dry-run` shows what it would create, and the same command without
`--dry-run` creates it (the CLI isn't on npm yet). It only creates drafts: nothing is approved or scheduled, Buffer's times
come over as proposed times, and Buffer keeps posting its queue until you change it there.
## Try Flaghand
The [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) covers the API and the MCP server.
[How to let an AI agent post on social media safely](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely) has nine checks to run on
any tool, this one included. [Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-feedhive.md
# Flaghand vs FeedHive for posting with AI agents
FeedHive combines AI writing, multi-network scheduling, analytics and team approvals. It also has a public API and an
MCP server, so bringing your own agent is not exclusive to Flaghand. Flaghand is a narrower publishing desk built around
one boundary: your agent prepares the posts, but its credential cannot approve, schedule or publish them.
**Checked on October 26, 2026.** FeedHive facts come from its own [pricing page](https://www.feedhive.com/pricing),
[network directory](https://www.feedhive.com/socials), [AI features](https://www.feedhive.com/features/ai),
[API introduction](https://docs.feedhive.com/rest-api/introduction),
[post endpoints](https://docs.feedhive.com/rest-api/posts/endpoints), [MCP documentation](https://docs.feedhive.com/mcp),
[CLI page](https://docs.feedhive.com/cli), [Claude Code](https://docs.feedhive.com/agents/claude-code) and
[ChatGPT](https://docs.feedhive.com/agents/chatgpt) agent guides, and
[team approval guide](https://docs.feedhive.com/workspace-management/approval-workflow-for-feedhive-teams).
These are public-page checks, not a hands-on trial. Prices and features can change; recheck those sources before buying.
## The short answer
- **Choose FeedHive** if you want the scheduler itself to help write and illustrate posts, manage more networks, work
with a team and provide analytics. Its configurable approval workflow also covers API scheduling requests.
- **Choose Flaghand** if your own agent already writes and you want publishing authority kept out of its credential,
with an owner's passkey approval over the exact posting snapshot.
## Where FeedHive is better
- **More networks.** Its directory lists Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, X, Facebook, YouTube Shorts, Threads, Pinterest,
Google Business and Discord. That is a network list, not a promise that every format or account type works everywhere.
Flaghand focuses on X and LinkedIn personal profiles; TikTok remains subject to TikTok's review.
- **Built-in AI writing and images.** FeedHive can turn an idea or campaign direction into copy, revise captions, suggest
hooks and hashtags, and generate images. Flaghand leaves writing to your own agent; it doesn't bundle an AI writer.
- **A broader publishing workspace.** FeedHive includes analytics, scheduling slots, labels and automation alongside
drafting and team review. Flaghand's limited X read-back isn't a replacement for cross-network performance reporting.
- **More agent tooling today.** Beyond its API and MCP server, FeedHive has an official CLI and setup guides for named
agents, including Claude Code and OpenClaw, from the Brand plan up. Flaghand has an API, OpenAPI spec and MCP; its
CLI isn't on npm yet.
- **Available to try now.** FeedHive advertises a seven-day trial. Flaghand is in early access and public sign-up isn't
open yet.
## Pricing and access
FeedHive's public page opened in its yearly view. These are US-dollar monthly equivalents **billed annually**, not
month-to-month prices. The page also offers a monthly selector; check that selection before comparing bills.
| Plan | Annual-billing equivalent | Annual payment | Social accounts | Regular monthly AI credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creator | $15 a month | $180 | 4 | 2,500 |
| Brand | $22 a month | $264 | 10 | 10,000 |
| Business | $69 a month | $828 | 100 | 50,000 |
| Agency | $239 a month | $2,868 | 500 | 100,000 |
The pricing page temporarily advertises double AI credits for the first three months; the table above uses the regular
allowance, not that promotion. Its feature comparison includes AI writing and image generation on all four plans.
The REST API and approval workflow start at Brand, not Creator. Brand includes five workspaces, Business 50 and Agency
100. Those are not the same thing as connected social accounts.
This guide doesn't quote a Flaghand price while its public sign-up and pricing remain closed.
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule) is the current entry point.
## How the AI drafts
FeedHive's built-in agent, called Vibe Marketing, takes an idea or prompt in the workspace and develops it into social
content. The AI page describes rewriting, variants, hashtags and accompanying images. It names Flux Pro and Nano Banana 2
for image generation, but doesn't identify a text model. Its pricing table also lists performance prediction on Brand
and above; that is a product feature, not a guarantee of engagement.
In Flaghand, the model and writing workflow are yours. An agent can use your source material, upload media, create drafts,
check them and request your approval through the API or MCP. It proposes a posting time; that proposal alone creates no
scheduled job. See the [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) and
[live OpenAPI spec](https://app.flaghand.com/api/v1/openapi.json).
## API and MCP access
FeedHive's REST API uses Bearer authentication at `https://api.feedhive.com`. Its hosted MCP server is
`https://mcp.feedhive.com`, with OAuth or an API key. MCP exposes post creation and editing, scheduling, media uploads,
labels, scheduling slots, social accounts and analytics. It inherits the public API's authorization and plan restrictions.
Its MCP has useful confirmation arguments: scheduling needs `confirm_scheduling: true`, updates need
`confirm_update: true`, and deletion needs `confirm: true`. The server has no direct REST publish-now tool, but configured
automation triggers can publish. These confirmation arguments are supplied by the MCP client; they aren't an owner's
passkey signature over each post. FeedHive tells agents to get permission before consequential changes.
FeedHive also has an official CLI, run with `npx @feedhive/cli` and the same API key as the REST API, for listing
accounts and posts and creating drafts and labels from scripts or an AI coding agent. Its Agents docs add setup guides for OpenClaw, Claude
Code, Claude, ChatGPT, Manus and others. The Claude Code installer adds a FeedHive skill holding your API key; one example
asks it to schedule a post. The ChatGPT guide says ChatGPT can't reach your account by itself: copy drafts across, or
connect it to the REST API or MCP and get explicit approval before scheduling. Pricing lists CLI access, the Claude Code
setup and the OpenClaw skill from Brand, like the REST API.
Flaghand OAuth MCP connectors receive `read`, `drafts`, `media` and `request-approval`. No API token scope can approve,
schedule or post, on any plan. The owner approves in Flaghand, not by telling a chat assistant to set a confirmation flag.
MCP itself is a connection protocol; the important difference is what the connected credential is allowed to do.
## Does a person approve each post?
**FeedHive can require review, including for API posts.** With its approval workflow enabled, the workspace owner grants
teammates the separate Can approve permission. Scheduling or planning sends content for review. Its API docs explicitly
say a scheduling request stores the post as pending approval when the owner or workspace requires it, retaining the
requested time; the API caller cannot approve it.
That is a configurable workflow, not a rule on every FeedHive account. When it is disabled, new posts can be scheduled
directly. An edit by someone without approval permission returns a post to draft; an edit by an approver keeps its
approval. We haven't tested these rules in a real workspace, and the cited pages don't describe a passkey-signed posting
snapshot. It would be wrong to say FeedHive has no human approval or that its API always bypasses review.
**Flaghand requires the owner's passkey.** Approval freezes the account, time, text, media, alt text and outgoing request
into a snapshot. Flaghand hashes it with SHA-256 and records the owner's passkey signature over that hash. Changing the
posting content, account or time needs a new approval, and the scheduler checks the signed snapshot again just before
posting. Its X and LinkedIn previews are drawn to match the real sites. That mandatory owner step is useful if you want
an agent to prepare work without authorizing publication; it isn't fully unattended publishing.
## After publication
Flaghand reads X posts back and compares available text, author, reply chain, media count and alt text with the approval.
It doesn't verify link destinations or media-file identity/bytes, and LinkedIn read-back isn't available. FeedHive's
analytics answer how posts performed; the cited pages don't describe this kind of signed-snapshot comparison.
## Side by side
| | FeedHive | Flaghand |
|---|---|---|
| Main strength | Built-in AI, more networks, analytics and team scheduling | Publishing desk for your own agent with owner-only authorization |
| Starting paid option shown | Creator $180 a year; Brand $264 a year adds REST API and approval workflow | Early access; public sign-up not open yet |
| AI drafting | Built-in writing and image generation, with credits | Bring your own agent |
| Networks | Ten listed destinations; check format-specific support | X and LinkedIn personal profiles; TikTok subject to review |
| API and MCP | REST API, MCP (OAuth or API key), CLI and agent setups; API, CLI and setups from Brand | Public API/OpenAPI and OAuth or token MCP; CLI not on npm yet |
| Human review | Configurable workflow; required API posts wait for an approver | Mandatory owner passkey over exact snapshot; tokens cannot approve |
| Unattended scheduling | API/MCP can schedule when approval rules permit | Agent cannot authorize scheduling or publication |
## Bringing your drafts
If you can save your posts as CSV or JSON, Flaghand's
[migration recipe](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents#migrate-from-another-scheduler) describes its generic file format. Imports create
drafts, with old times as proposed times, not jobs or transferred approvals. This is not a one-click FeedHive migration,
and importing doesn't pause FeedHive's queue. The owner must decide the cutover; the CLI isn't on npm yet.
## Try Flaghand
Read [How to let an AI agent post safely](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely) for questions to ask of either tool.
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-hootsuite.md
# Flaghand vs Hootsuite for solo builders and small teams
Hootsuite is a full social media suite: publishing, a shared inbox, social listening, reports, ads and team workflows,
sold per user. Flaghand does one part of that job. It is a publishing desk where your own AI agent drafts X and
LinkedIn posts, and nothing goes out until you approve the exact post with your passkey.
Every Hootsuite fact here comes from Hootsuite's own [plans page](https://www.hootsuite.com/plans),
[integrations page](https://www.hootsuite.com/platform/integrations),
[MCP servers page](https://www.hootsuite.com/integrations/mcp),
[Perch MCP server reference](https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/perch-mcp-server),
[Nest MCP server reference](https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/nest-mcp-server),
[REST API scheduling guide](https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/message-scheduling),
[REST API reference](https://developer.hootsuite.com/reference/schedulemessage-1) and
[developer FAQ](https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/faq), read on October 26, 2026. Prices and features change, so check
those pages before you choose.
## The short answer
- **Choose Hootsuite** if you answer customers in a shared inbox, track mentions and competitors, build reports for
someone else, run ads, or post to many networks, and the price per seat fits your team.
- **Choose Flaghand** if you post to X and LinkedIn, your agent writes the posts, and you want the server to refuse
anything you haven't approved with your passkey, exactly as previewed.
## What Hootsuite costs
Hootsuite sells each plan per user. Billed annually, Standard is $99, Professional $199 and Advanced $399 per user a
month, and Enterprise is priced on request. Hootsuite says monthly billing costs more per user than annual billing.
Standard connects up to 10 social accounts, and the other plans have no account limit.
Approval workflows start on Advanced. At those list prices, one person on Standard is $1,188 a year, and a team of three
on Advanced is $1,197 a month, before taxes. Each plan has a 14-day free trial with no credit card, with a daily posting
limit while you're on trial.
Flaghand is in early access: public sign-up isn't open yet, and its pricing isn't public.
## Where Hootsuite is better
- **A shared inbox.** Every plan has one inbox for public and private conversations across networks, with saved replies
and notes. Professional adds automated replies and DM automations; Advanced adds assigning messages, routing them by
skill and team productivity reports. Flaghand has no shared social inbox.
- **Social listening.** Standard searches the past 7 days of mentions, with sentiment analysis and trending topics.
Professional searches 30 days and forecasts trends 90 days ahead. Enterprise adds 13 months of history, alerts and
more sources. Flaghand doesn't do social listening.
- **Reports.** Every plan has post performance reports, report templates, best times to publish and benchmarking
against 5 competitors. Professional adds custom and scheduled reports and 20 competitors. Flaghand reads your recent X
posts' numbers to learn your best times, and your agent can list your best X posts by views, likes or replies. It has
no report builder, competitor benchmarking or LinkedIn analytics.
- **Teams.** You can buy as many seats as you need and set each person's access to features and accounts. Advanced adds
post approval workflows, internal comments and suspending scheduled posts. Flaghand has owners and editors: editors
draft and check, and only owners approve.
- **Many more networks.** Hootsuite publishes to Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Threads, Pinterest
and Bluesky, and answers WhatsApp messages in its inbox. Flaghand posts to X and LinkedIn personal profiles; its TikTok
posting waits on TikTok's review.
- **More in one place.** Ads management on every plan, built-in AI writing, Canva and Adobe Express templates, and
employee advocacy on Enterprise. And a trial you can start today.
## Your own agent: Hootsuite has MCP servers
Hootsuite connects ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot and Gemini to its apps through MCP servers: Perch for publishing and
analytics, Nest for the inbox, Lumen for listening and Parliament for employee advocacy. The plans page lists the Lumen
connector as an Enterprise add-on.
Perch keeps your agent to drafts. Its developer reference says its writes are "Drafts and media uploads only" and that it
"does not provide tools to publish or schedule posts directly". A draft with a date appears on Hootsuite's Planner, but
"the draft will not publish automatically": a person publishes it in Hootsuite. Nest "cannot send replies"; it can tag,
assign and add notes. Hootsuite's MCP page talks about scheduling posts from chat, so if that difference matters, check
the developer reference, which is the more specific.
Hootsuite's REST API is a separate path. It's free for approved developers who register an app. Its reference lists one
OAuth scope, `offline`, so there is no scope that can draft but not publish. Its scheduling guide warns that a
scheduled message "will publish to the selected social profile at the specified time", and a message can wait in a
pending-approval state when your approval process covers it.
Flaghand's limit holds on every path. No API token scope can approve, schedule or post, on any plan. Those routes refuse
every token and accept only an owner of the workspace, signed in with a passkey. Apps that connect to Flaghand's MCP
server by OAuth, such as Claude and ChatGPT, get `read`, `drafts`, `media` and `request-approval`: enough to prepare a
plan and ask you to approve it. Its API, OpenAPI spec and MCP tool reference are public.
## What you approve
In Hootsuite, someone opens your agent's draft and publishes or schedules it there. On Advanced, approval workflows let
teammates approve posts before they publish. The pages linked above don't describe a signature over the exact post, or
a check right before sending that it hasn't changed since approval.
In Flaghand, your agent checks its drafts and sends you one approval request in the desk. Approving freezes each post
into a snapshot: the account, the time, the text, every media file and its alt text, and the exact request that will be
sent. Flaghand hashes it with SHA-256 and records your passkey signature over the hash. Changing the text, media, account
or time needs a new approval, and the scheduler checks the signed snapshot again right before posting. Flaghand draws X
and LinkedIn posts to match the real sites, and its check flags anything that wouldn't post exactly as previewed.
## After it posts
Flaghand reads each X post back and compares it with what you approved: normalized text, author, hidden reply mentions,
media count, available alt text, reply chain and quote. It doesn't verify link destinations or media-file bytes, and
LinkedIn posts aren't read back. Hootsuite's REST API gives a message its state, such as sent or failed, and its link;
the documentation linked above describes no comparison with an approved version.
## TikTok slideshows
Through Flaghand's [slideshow API](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/slideshows), an agent lays out a TikTok photo slideshow: photos, text
and styles, slide by slide. One renderer draws it for the preview you approve and for the images TikTok receives, pixel
for pixel, and the approval covers that render's hash. The free [TikTok slideshow maker](/tiktok-slideshow-maker) uses
the same renderer. TikTok is still reviewing Flaghand: [Flaghand and TikTok](/tiktok) says what you can post until it
finishes. Hootsuite schedules TikTok videos today.
## Side by side
| | Hootsuite | Flaghand |
|---|---|---|
| Price per seat, billed annually | Standard $99; Professional $199; Advanced $399 per user a month; Enterprise on request | Early access; public sign-up isn't open yet |
| Trial | 14 days, no credit card, daily posting limit | No public sign-up yet |
| Networks | Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Threads, Pinterest, Bluesky; WhatsApp in the inbox | X and LinkedIn personal profiles; TikTok in TikTok's review |
| Inbox | Every plan; assigning and routing on Advanced | None |
| Listening | 7 days on Standard, 30 days on Professional, 13 months on Enterprise | None |
| Reports | Templates and post reports on every plan; custom reports from Professional | X numbers for best times and your best posts; no report builder |
| Team approvals | Approval workflows on Advanced | Owner passkey approval on every plan; editors can't approve |
| Agent access | MCP (Perch saves drafts only); REST API that can schedule posts | API, MCP, agent skill and webhooks; tokens can't approve, schedule or post |
| Check after posting | Sent or failed, with a link | X: text, mentions, media count, alt text, thread and quote. LinkedIn: none |
## Bringing your drafts
Hootsuite exports its content calendar as a CSV file on every plan. Flaghand's
[migration recipe](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents#migrate-from-another-scheduler) reads CSV or JSON in its own column format, so
rename or map the columns first. The import creates drafts, with old times as proposed times: it doesn't approve or
schedule them, and Hootsuite keeps posting its schedule until you change it there. This is a file-based recipe, not a
one-click Hootsuite migration.
## Try Flaghand
The [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) covers the API and MCP server.
[How to let an AI agent post on social media safely](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely) has nine checks to run on
any tool, this one included. [Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-hypefury.md
# Flaghand vs Hypefury for posting with AI agents
Hypefury's pricing page says it no longer supports X. Flaghand posts to X and LinkedIn, and it's built for AI agents
(Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor or your own) that draft your posts, while only you can approve them.
Every Hypefury fact here comes from Hypefury's own [pricing page](https://hypefury.com/features-pricing/),
[information page for AI assistants](https://hypefury.com/llm-info/) and [help center](https://hypefury.crisp.help/en/),
read on October 25, 2026. Prices and features change, so check those pages before you choose.
## The short answer
- **Choose Hypefury** for Instagram, Threads, Bluesky or TikTok with growth automation, a ghostwriter working in your
account, or a trial without a card.
- **Choose Flaghand** to post on X, or if your agent writes the posts and you want a rule the server enforces: nothing
goes out until you approve the exact post with your passkey.
## Where Hypefury is better
- **Other networks.** Its Full plan includes Bluesky, Threads, LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok. Flaghand posts to X and
LinkedIn personal profiles; its TikTok posting waits on TikTok's review.
- **Growth automation.** Autoplugs (an automatic first comment), AutoDMs on Instagram, an engagement builder that watches
users and keywords and imports Bluesky lists, cross-posting, posts turned into images for Instagram, and LinkedIn
carousels.
- **Writing help.** An inspiration library of top creators' posts in more than 15 niches, AI trained on your posts, and
analytics with like and repost counts, follower growth and profile clicks.
- **People and trial.** You can invite a ghostwriter or assistant to write for you. Both plans have a 7-day free trial
with no credit card. Flaghand is in early access: sign-up isn't open yet.
## Who can publish
Hypefury's information page for AI assistants lists a Hypefury MCP to "draft and schedule in conversation, manage your
queue, analyze performance" with "approval-first control". On October 25, 2026, neither its site nor its help center
documented that MCP server or an API: how an agent connects, what its connection can do, or what approval means there.
Ask Hypefury before you give an agent access.
Flaghand documents it, and the server enforces it. No API token scope can approve, schedule or post, on any plan. Those
routes refuse every token and accept only an owner of the workspace, signed in with a passkey. Apps that connect to
Flaghand's MCP server by OAuth, such as Claude and ChatGPT, get a draft-only token: `read`, `drafts`, `media` and
`request-approval`. The API reference, the OpenAPI spec and the MCP server's tool list are public.
## What you approve
In Flaghand, the agent checks its drafts and asks you to approve them. Approving freezes each post into a snapshot: the
account, the time, the text, every media file and its alt text, and the exact request that will be sent. Flaghand hashes
it with SHA-256 and records your passkey signature over the hash. Changing the text, media, account or time needs a new
approval, and the scheduler checks the signed snapshot again right before posting. Flaghand draws X and LinkedIn posts to
match the real sites, and its check flags anything that wouldn't post exactly as previewed.
## After it posts
Flaghand reads each X post back and compares it with what you approved: normalized text, author, hidden reply mentions,
media count, available alt text, reply chain and quote. It doesn't verify link destinations or the media files
themselves, and LinkedIn posts aren't read back. Hypefury's pages, read on October 25, 2026, describe no comparison like
this.
## TikTok slideshows
Through Flaghand's [slideshow API](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/slideshows), an agent lays out a TikTok photo slideshow: photos, text
and styles, slide by slide. One renderer draws it for the preview you approve and for the images TikTok receives, pixel
for pixel, and the approval covers that render's hash. The free [TikTok slideshow maker](/tiktok-slideshow-maker) uses the
same renderer. TikTok is still reviewing Flaghand: [Flaghand and TikTok](/tiktok) says what you can post until it
finishes. Hypefury's Full plan includes TikTok today.
## Side by side
| | Hypefury | Flaghand |
|---|---|---|
| X | No longer supported | Yes |
| Free plan | No; a 7-day trial without a card | No |
| Paid plans | Flexible $6 a month per channel ($5 billed yearly); Full $19 a month or $199 a year | Early access; sign-up isn't open yet |
| Networks | Bluesky, Threads, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok | X and LinkedIn personal profiles; TikTok in TikTok's review |
| Agent access | An MCP named on one page, no public documentation | API, MCP (OAuth or API token), agent skill, webhooks |
| Can the agent's credential publish? | Not documented | No, on any plan |
| Approval | "Approval-first control" named, not documented | Your passkey signature over the exact post |
| Check after posting | Not described | X: text, mentions, media count, alt text, thread and quote. LinkedIn: none |
## Moving your posts over
Hypefury's public pages describe no API or export format to read, so put the posts you want to keep in a CSV or JSON file
in the generic format of Flaghand's [migration recipe](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents#migrate-from-another-scheduler): platform,
text, time and media links, with an X thread as one row. `flaghand import FILE --dry-run` shows what it would create, and
the same command without `--dry-run` creates it (the CLI isn't on npm yet). It only creates drafts: nothing is approved
or scheduled, and old times come over as proposed times.
## Try Flaghand
The [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) covers the API and the MCP server.
[How to let an AI agent post on social media safely](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely) has nine checks to run on
any tool, this one included. [Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-late.md
# Flaghand vs Late for agents and apps
Looking at Late at `getlate.dev`? On October 26, 2026, `getlate.dev`, its pricing page and `docs.getlate.dev` redirect to
Zernio. This guide uses the current pricing and documentation reached from those addresses, not an old Late plan table.
Below, “Late/Zernio” means that current service.
Both it and Flaghand expose social publishing through an API. Late/Zernio lets a backend schedule a post with an API
key. Flaghand lets an agent prepare posts and ask for approval, but only a workspace owner can authorize publishing
with a passkey. That boundary, not whether a product has an API, is the deciding difference.
Every Late/Zernio fact here comes from its own [pricing page](https://zernio.com/pricing),
[quickstart](https://docs.zernio.com/quickstart), [API reference](https://docs.zernio.com/api-reference) and
[platform comparison](https://docs.zernio.com/platforms/compare), read on October 26, 2026.
The old [Late pricing address](https://getlate.dev/pricing) redirects to that pricing page. Recheck the current pages
before choosing; old articles may describe different plans.
## The short answer
- **Choose Late/Zernio** for more networks, free connected accounts, or an API key that can schedule posts from your app
without a required owner approval for each one.
- **Choose Flaghand** when an agent drafts for a person who must approve exactly what goes live, and you want that rule
enforced by the server rather than by your agent's instructions.
## Where Late/Zernio is better
- **Broader social publishing.** Its current platform comparison covers Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, Threads
and Bluesky, alongside X, LinkedIn, TikTok and Google Business Profile. Flaghand posts to X and LinkedIn personal
profiles; its TikTok posting is subject to TikTok's review. Flaghand isn't a replacement for all those destinations.
- **A simpler unattended integration.** Generate an API key, connect an account, then send a Bearer-authenticated request
to `https://zernio.com/api/v1/posts`. Its quickstart schedules with `scheduledFor`, `timezone` and a `platforms` array
containing a platform and `accountId`. It doesn't require a passkey ceremony for each post.
- **A free starting point.** The first two connected accounts are free, with no credit card required and unlimited
posts. Each network account counts separately: one customer's Instagram and TikTok are two, not one.
- **More beyond publishing.** Current pricing includes analytics and webhooks. These can be useful when you're building
a multi-network product; Flaghand's limited X read-back check isn't a multi-network performance report.
Check feature-level availability, not just logos. The current platform comparison explicitly says Reddit publishing is
temporarily unavailable and Snapchat is in a closed beta. A directory of integrations isn't a promise that every
network supports every operation today.
## Pricing and access
The current pricing page says “no plans, no seats.” Connected accounts 1–2 are free, accounts 3–10 cost $6 each per
month, accounts 11–100 cost $3 each, and accounts 101 onward cost $1 each. These are graduated bands: its 100-account
example totals $318 a month, not $100. Connections are measured daily, with partial-period adjustments when accounts
are added or removed. The page lists monthly usage pricing rather than an annual subscription table.
Unlimited posts doesn't mean every operation is free. X API usage has separate charges; X analytics and inbox sync are
opt-in paid usage. Other messaging and advertising services have their own billing details. Price the operations you
actually need from the current page, not just the connected-account line.
Flaghand is in early access and public sign-up isn't open yet. This guide doesn't quote a Flaghand price;
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule) is its current entry point.
## Who can publish
Late/Zernio's quickstart has the account owner authorize a social connection in the browser, then the API key schedules
a post. That connection consent is not per-post approval. The documented scheduling flow needs no later owner sign-off
over that post's text, media and time. This is useful if publishing authority belongs in your application.
Flaghand uses a Bearer token too, but no token scope grants approval, scheduling, posting or connecting social accounts.
OAuth MCP connectors get `read`, `drafts`, `media` and `request-approval`. The owner connects their accounts and approves
in Flaghand. You can't turn its agent credential into a fully autonomous publisher by adding a scope.
This isn't a claim that API-key publishing is inherently wrong, or that Late/Zernio has no review features anywhere.
It means the cited API quickstart can schedule without the per-post owner boundary that Flaghand requires.
## What you integrate
Flaghand's [live OpenAPI spec](https://app.flaghand.com/api/v1/openapi.json) describes `createDraft`, `checkDraft`, `requestApproval`,
`listJobs` and `verifyJob`. Your integration uploads media, saves a draft, checks the revision and creates an approval
request. A proposed `post_at` doesn't schedule a job. A passing check and an approval request aren't permission to post.
The owner reviews and approves inside Flaghand; your app then reads the job and its available live check.
With Late/Zernio, your integration can instead submit the account IDs, content and schedule directly to the posts API,
then read the returned post ID or receive webhooks for its progress. Its quickstart describes the lifecycle as
`scheduled` → `publishing` → `published`. Track the final outcome, not just request acceptance.
## What you approve
In Flaghand, approval freezes the account, time, text, media, alt text and outgoing request into a snapshot. It hashes
that snapshot with SHA-256 and records your passkey signature over the hash. Changing the posting content, account or
time needs a new approval. The scheduler checks it again just before posting. Its previews draw X and LinkedIn posts to
match the real sites, and a check flags what wouldn't post as previewed.
The cited Late/Zernio scheduling flow doesn't require this signed snapshot. Choose Flaghand's extra step if your person
needs that control; choose the direct API model if an unattended backend is the job.
## After it posts
Flaghand reads each X post back and compares normalized text, author, hidden reply mentions, media count, available alt
text, reply chain and quote with the approval. It doesn't verify link destinations or media-file identity, and it has
no LinkedIn read-back. Late/Zernio documents post status and webhooks, with analytics included in current pricing;
those sources don't describe Flaghand's approval-snapshot comparison. A published status and a content comparison
answer different questions.
## TikTok slideshows
Through Flaghand's [slideshow API](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/slideshows), an agent lays out photos and text slide by slide. One
renderer draws it for the preview you approve and for the images TikTok receives; approval covers the render hash.
The free [TikTok slideshow maker](/tiktok-slideshow-maker) uses the same renderer.
[Flaghand and TikTok](/tiktok) explains current posting availability during TikTok's review. Don't infer general TikTok
posting availability just because the slideshow API exists.
## Side by side
| | Late/Zernio | Flaghand |
|---|---|---|
| Core fit | A multi-network API inside your app | A publishing desk for a person and their agents |
| API authentication | Bearer API key | Bearer workspace token or OAuth MCP |
| Can that credential schedule or publish? | Yes, in the documented posts flow | No API token can approve, schedule or post |
| Per-post owner step | Not required by the documented scheduling flow | Passkey signature over the exact snapshot |
| Network breadth | Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, Threads, Bluesky and others | X and LinkedIn personal profiles; TikTok subject to review |
| Pricing model | First 2 connected accounts free; graduated per-account billing; X usage extra | Early access; public sign-up not open yet |
| After publication | Status, webhooks and analytics | Limited X snapshot read-back; none on LinkedIn |
## Try Flaghand
Read the [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) for the API and MCP workflow, and
[How to let an AI agent post safely](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely) for checks to apply to either service.
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-later.md
# Flaghand vs Later when every post needs approval
Later has team collaboration and client review tools. Flaghand has a narrower publishing contract: an AI agent can
prepare a post, but its credential cannot approve, schedule or publish it. If your requirement is that a person must
approve every post, look at the publishing permissions, not just the presence of an Approve button.
**Checked on October 26, 2026.** Every Later fact here comes from its own
[pricing page](https://later.com/pricing/),
[approval-workflow page](https://later.com/social-media-approval-workflow/) and
[Later Influence Reporting API documentation](https://docs.reporting.api.later.com/getting-started),
read on October 26, 2026. This is a public-document comparison, not a hands-on trial. Prices and capabilities change; check
those pages before choosing.
## The short answer
- **Choose Later** for a broader social calendar, Instagram and other visual networks, analytics, and team/client
feedback in one place. Its approval tools start with Growth.
- **Choose Flaghand** for agent-prepared X and LinkedIn personal-profile posts when the agent must never have
publishing authority and an owner must approve the exact posting snapshot.
- **Don't assume Later's approval status blocks every publication.** Its own role FAQ describes exceptions. If that
is your requirement, verify the permissions of every role and the behavior of scheduled posts before relying on it.
## Where Later is better
- **Broader network coverage.** Later lists Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Pinterest, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube and
Snapchat. Flaghand posts to X and LinkedIn personal profiles; TikTok remains subject to TikTok's review. Later's
current eight-network list does not include X. Check each network's supported post types rather than assuming
identical publishing capabilities across all eight.
- **Team and external feedback.** Later lets a team collaborate and request reviews on drafts and scheduled posts.
It also describes sharing posts with external reviewers who don't have Later accounts, so clients can give feedback
without becoming full users.
- **A shared visual publishing workflow.** Its calendar brings plans, team notes and activity tracking together.
Comments and feedback stay with the post instead of in a separate conversation.
- **Analytics and writing assistance.** Later's plans include social analytics and AI writing credits, with more
reporting on the higher tiers. Flaghand's X read-back check serves a different purpose: comparing some published
details with an approval, not replacing a social analytics product.
## Pricing and access
The current Later pricing page displays these USD monthly equivalents **billed yearly**, before applicable taxes:
| Plan | Annual-billing monthly equivalent | Included users | Social Sets | Posts per profile per month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $18.75 | 1 | 1 | 30 |
| Growth | $37.50 | 2 | 2 | 180 |
| Scale | $82.50 | 4 | 6 | Unlimited |
A Social Set is one profile from each of Later's eight supported networks. It isn't eight interchangeable profiles:
one set doesn't mean eight Instagram accounts. The page advertises 25% savings with annual billing. These figures are
not verified month-to-month prices; use its billing selector to compare the term you actually want.
**Approval tools start with Growth**, not Starter. The approval page says the in-app notification center for approval
activity requires Scale. The displayed yearly-billing view also lists extra Social Sets at $11.25 per month and extra
users at $3.75 per month on Growth and Scale; those add-ons aren't offered on Starter. Compare the needed review plan,
people and profiles, not just the lowest headline price.
Flaghand is in early access and public sign-up isn't open yet. This guide doesn't quote a Flaghand price; use
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule) for the current entry point.
## Who can approve and publish
Later's approval page describes review, sign-offs and approval before publishing. Its more specific role FAQ also says:
- Members can collaborate and request approval but cannot approve content themselves; **"their scheduled posts publish
regardless of approval status."**
- Reviewers can approve content, and **"their Publish Without Approval permission can’t be disabled."**
Those qualifications matter more than a general promise of a smoother approval process. Later has useful review tools,
but these documented roles are not an enforced approval gate for every post. This guide does not treat an external
feedback link, a comment or a status label as proof that publishing requires a human's authorization of the current
version.
In Flaghand, no API token scope can approve, schedule or post. OAuth MCP connections receive `read`, `drafts`, `media`
and `request-approval`. An agent can propose a time, run `checkDraft` and call `requestApproval`; none of those actions
schedules a job. A workspace owner reviews the plan inside Flaghand and approves with their passkey. The agent cannot
connect a social account on the owner's behalf either.
## What you approve
Flaghand freezes the account, time, text, media, alt text and outgoing request into a snapshot. It hashes the snapshot
with SHA-256 and records your passkey signature over the hash. Changing posting content, account or time needs a new
approval. The scheduler checks the signed snapshot again just before posting. One passkey tap can cover a plan of
multiple posts, so every post can be approved without a separate tap for every post.
The X and LinkedIn previews are drawn to match the real sites, and the check flags things that wouldn't post as
previewed. A successful check is not approval. The cited Later pages don't establish this same passkey-signed,
version-bound contract or a mandatory reapproval rule after edits. That is a documentation boundary, not a claim to
have tested every Later setting.
## API and agent access
Flaghand exposes an API, OAuth MCP, a CLI and an agent skill for the drafting, checking and approval-request loop.
Its public [OpenAPI spec](https://app.flaghand.com/api/v1/openapi.json) describes the operations and authorization boundary. Choosing a
time in a draft does not hand an agent a scheduling permission.
The public Later API documentation cited here is for **Later Influence campaign-performance reporting**. It describes
a backend reporting integration, not a Later Social draft-creation or publishing API. Don't mistake a reporting API
for an agent publishing integration, or an in-product AI writer for an external MCP connector.
The sources checked here do not establish a public Later Social publishing API, agent-specific permissions or an
official MCP server. That is unverified access, not proof that none exists. If an external agent is essential to your
workflow, verify the exact supported interface and its permissions before planning a migration.
## After it posts
Flaghand reads X posts back and compares normalized text, author, hidden reply mentions, media count, available alt text,
reply chain and quote with the approval. It doesn't verify link destinations or media-file identity, and there is no
LinkedIn read-back. Later offers analytics; the cited pages don't document the same snapshot comparison. Neither
analytics nor a successful scheduled-post request is proof that every detail matches what a person reviewed.
## Side by side
| | Later | Flaghand |
|---|---|---|
| Best fit | A broad visual calendar, social analytics and team/client review | A person whose AI agents prepare posts |
| Review plan | Growth and Scale | Owner passkey required for scheduling and posting |
| Required before every post? | Role FAQ says scheduled Member posts publish regardless of approval; Reviewers retain Publish Without Approval | No API token can approve, schedule or post |
| Exact-version authorization | Same signed-snapshot contract not established by cited sources | Owner's passkey signature over the posting snapshot |
| Networks | Eight listed networks; X not in the current list | X and LinkedIn personal profiles; TikTok subject to review |
| Price for approval tools | Growth $37.50/month equivalent billed yearly, 2 users and 2 Social Sets | Early access; public sign-up not open yet |
| External agents | Later Social publishing API and official MCP not established by the checked sources | API, OAuth MCP, CLI and agent skill |
| After publication | Social analytics | Limited X snapshot read-back; none on LinkedIn |
## Try Flaghand
Read the [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents), the [approval contract](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/approvals) and
[How to let an AI agent post safely](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely) for checks to apply to either tool.
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-loomly.md
# Flaghand vs Loomly for teams that review posts
Loomly is a collaborative social calendar for people creating, reviewing and scheduling content together. Flaghand is
a publishing desk for people whose own AI agents prepare the posts. Both put a person in the review process, but a
team workflow and a signed approval of an exact post are different things.
**Checked on October 26, 2026.** Every Loomly fact here comes from its own [pricing page](https://www.loomly.com/pricing),
[integrations directory](https://www.loomly.com/integrations),
[collaboration and approvals page](https://www.loomly.com/features/collaboration-approvals) and
[Zapier help article](https://loomly.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/38970621662619-How-to-Use-Zapier-to-Connect-Loomly-with-Other-Apps).
The Zapier article was found through official help-center search results; its full text could not be retrieved
(HTTP 403), so its API statement is qualified below. This is a public-documentation comparison, not a signed-in
product test. Check the current plans before buying.
## The short answer
- **Choose Loomly** for a team calendar, review assignments, version history and scheduling across more networks,
especially if multiple people or clients collaborate in the same workflow.
- **Choose Flaghand** if your own agent drafts X and LinkedIn posts and you want its credential to be unable to
approve, schedule or post, with the owner signing the exact text and media before publication.
## What Loomly costs
Loomly's pricing page displays these dollar-denominated prices for the subscription, **not per user**:
| Plan | Paid monthly | Billed annually | Included users | Social accounts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $65 a month | $49 a month equivalent; $588 a year | 3 | 12 |
| Beyond | $332 a month | $249 a month equivalent; $2,988 a year | Unlimited | 60 |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Unlimited | 61+ |
Annual billing is paid upfront for 12 months. Check how your intended reviewers and calendar connections count
before buying; the pricing cards alone do not define every user or social-account counting rule.
Custom-workflow eligibility is not clear from the pages checked. The pricing page positions custom roles and
workflows as a Beyond upgrade, but also marks them included for both compared tiers. Don't budget for a particular
custom approval rule based on that conflicting wording.
Flaghand is in early access: public sign-up is not open yet and its pricing is not public.
## Where Loomly is better
- **A shared editorial calendar.** Loomly is built for teammates planning and reviewing together, with assignments,
multi-tier approval workflows, post history and asset versions. Flaghand has owners and editors, not a configurable
multi-stage client approval chain.
- **Included collaborators.** Starter includes three users and Beyond lists unlimited users. This is a different
cost structure from tools charging for every reviewer seat.
- **More destinations.** Its current integrations directory lists Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube,
Threads, Pinterest, Google Business Profile and Snapchat. Listing an integration does not mean every format posts
automatically: Snapchat uses push notifications. X is not listed in that directory, so current X support is
unverified here, not declared discontinued.
- **An established human workflow.** People can work through review states in the calendar without installing their
own agent. Flaghand's API and MCP are useful for an agent preparing a plan, not a substitute for every team
collaboration feature. Flaghand posts to X and LinkedIn personal profiles; its TikTok access is in TikTok's review.
## How Loomly review works
Loomly's collaboration page describes this process:
1. Give each brand, project or location its own calendar, with a predefined or custom workflow.
2. Invite teammates and clients, with role-based permissions for that workspace.
3. Send review notifications for an individual draft or a whole calendar. Multi-tier workflows can involve the team
and client at different stages; reviewers can approve a batch of posts.
4. Keep internal discussion team-only, revise the content, then make the discussion visible to clients for final approval.
5. Schedule the content in Loomly. Its page also describes mobile approval and Slack or Microsoft Teams notifications.
Those are concrete collaboration steps, not a specification of every approval-state transition. The accessible
product page does not say whether approval always schedules a post automatically, which privileged actions bypass a
stage, or exactly which safeguards a given plan includes. Verify your chosen workflow rather than assuming the word
"approval" makes every route behave the same way.
## Does approval cover the exact text and media?
**Loomly:** reviewers preview a post, and Loomly advertises post history and asset versions. The public sources checked
here do not establish whether changing an approved caption or replacing its media automatically invalidates approval.
They also do not establish an immutable snapshot binding the review decision to that exact text and those media bytes.
That is an **unverified boundary**, not a claim that Loomly allows every edit without another review. If it matters to
your process, verify what happens after an approved post's text or media changes, including changes by a privileged user.
**Flaghand:** the agent checks its drafts and requests approval in the desk. The owner reviews each post's account,
time, text, media and alt text. Flaghand freezes a snapshot, including the exact platform request, hashes it with
SHA-256, and verifies the owner's passkey signature covering that hash. One tap can approve a plan of several posts;
it still covers each snapshot. Changing posting content, media, account or time requires a new approval, and the
scheduler verifies the signed snapshot immediately before sending. Internal labels and notes are not posting content.
The [approval reference](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/approvals) describes what is signed. A signature cannot prove a person actually
read every word; it prevents an agent's credential from substituting a different approved payload.
## API and MCP access
Official help-center search results for Loomly's Zapier article report that it does not currently offer a public API
for direct integration. The full article returned HTTP 403, so that statement could not be checked against its full
current text. **Direct public API availability is not verified here.** The accessible pricing and collaboration pages
do not provide an API reference. Zapier is an integration route, not proof of a native public Loomly API.
We found no official MCP server documentation in the Loomly site and help center checked on the date above. That
means **official MCP access is unverified here**, not that no third-party connector could exist or that an official
connector can never be added.
Flaghand's [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) and [OpenAPI spec](https://app.flaghand.com/api/v1/openapi.json) are public.
Its API and MCP let agents upload media, create or edit drafts, check them, request approval and read results. OAuth
connectors receive `read`, `drafts`, `media` and `request-approval`. **No API token scope can approve, schedule or post**;
owner approval routes refuse tokens regardless of scope. The CLI is not on npm yet; the hosted MCP does not require it.
## Side by side
| | Loomly | Flaghand |
|---|---|---|
| Best fit | People and clients collaborating in a social calendar | People and their own drafting agents |
| Starter price | $65 monthly, or $588 a year; 3 users and 12 social accounts | Early access; public sign-up and pricing not open |
| Larger team price | Beyond $332 monthly, or $2,988 a year; unlimited users and 60 social accounts | No public price yet |
| Approval process | Multi-tier workflows, roles, assignments and batch review; exact rules depend on configuration | Owner passkey over each snapshot, optionally as one plan |
| Exact text and media after approval | Post history and asset versions; automatic reapproval after edits not established by checked sources | Posting-content changes need a new approval |
| Public API | Not verified; official help search result says none, but full article returned 403 | Public reference; workspace-scoped token access |
| Official MCP | Not verified in checked first-party sources | Hosted MCP; tokens cannot approve, schedule or post |
| Networks | Nine destinations listed in current directory; Snapchat uses notifications; X unverified | X and LinkedIn personal profiles; TikTok in review |
## After it posts
Flaghand reads X posts back and compares normalized text, author, hidden reply mentions, media count, available alt
text, reply chain and quote with the approved expectations. It does not verify link destinations or media-file bytes.
LinkedIn posts are not read back. The Loomly sources above do not document that kind of comparison against an approved
snapshot; post history and a publishing status are not proof of an exact live match.
## Try Flaghand
Start with the [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents), or use the
[safety checklist](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely) to compare any publishing tool.
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule). For its current TikTok restrictions, see [Flaghand and TikTok](/tiktok).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-metricool.md
# Flaghand vs Metricool for people and agents
Metricool is a better fit if you want social analytics, reports and broad network management alongside scheduling.
Flaghand is a narrower publishing desk: your agent prepares the work, but only you can authorize what goes out.
Both offer MCP. The choice is about the job you need done and the authority the connected agent receives.
**Checked on October 26, 2026.** Metricool facts come from its own
[pricing and plan comparison](https://metricool.com/pricing/),
[MCP overview](https://metricool.com/metricool-mcp/),
[MCP setup and tools](https://metricool.com/metricool-mcp-claude/) and
[approval workflow](https://metricool.com/approval-system-social-media/).
These are public-page checks, not a hands-on trial. Prices and features can change; recheck the sources before buying.
## The short answer
- **Choose Metricool** to understand performance across networks, report to clients, monitor competitors, combine
organic and advertising analytics, or have an agent work with those measurements and your publishing queue.
- **Choose Flaghand** when your own agent already writes and the priority is to keep that agent from authorizing
publication. The server requires an owner's passkey over the exact posting snapshot.
## Where Metricool is better
- **Analytics is a central workflow.** Metricool combines network performance, competitor monitoring and advertising
data, with reports on paid plans and deeper reporting/integrations on higher plans. Its MCP exposes account and post
metrics, competitor data and campaign information. Flaghand's limited X read-back is not a cross-network analytics suite.
- **More connected networks.** Its plan comparison lists Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, Pinterest, TikTok,
YouTube, Twitch and Google Business Profile, plus website/blog and advertising connections. LinkedIn needs a paid plan;
X needs a paid plan and its add-on. A connection in an analytics product doesn't mean every network supports every
publishing format, metric or inbox action. Flaghand focuses on X and LinkedIn personal profiles, not that breadth.
- **A free starting point.** Metricool Free includes one brand, 20 scheduled posts a month, five competitor profiles and
30 days of analytics. It excludes LinkedIn and X, reports and the post approval system. Its MCP is available on Free,
within the plan's limits; you don't have to buy Advanced just to use MCP.
- **Team and client review.** Advanced and Custom include team/client management, roles and the post approval system.
Reviewers can accept or request changes before approved posts publish at their scheduled time.
## Pricing and access
The following are Metricool's displayed US-dollar plan options. Annual figures are monthly equivalents **billed
annually**, not a month-to-month subscription at that price. Prices exclude applicable VAT.
| Plan | Brands | Monthly billing | Annual-billing equivalent |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Starter | 5 or 10 | From $25 a month for 5 | From $20 a month for 5 |
| Advanced | 15, 25 or 50 | From $67 a month for 15 | From $53 a month for 15 |
| Custom | Custom; comparison lists more than 50 | Individually quoted | Individually quoted |
Larger brand options cost more. A brand groups one profile per social network or advertising platform; it is not a
team seat. Each Google Business Profile location needs its own brand. X is an additional **$10 a month per connected
account** in the dollar pricing view, on top of a paid plan. Other currency options are available; check the selected
currency and billing period rather than comparing an annual headline with a monthly bill.
Direct Metricool API access, including the listed Zapier/Make integrations, starts at Advanced and is inherited by
Custom. MCP is separately available across plans, including Free. Starter does not include the post approval system;
Advanced and Custom do. Those distinctions matter more than a generic claim that a product has an API or approvals.
Flaghand is in early access and public sign-up isn't open yet. This guide doesn't quote a Flaghand price;
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule) is its current entry point. Don't choose a narrower approval desk to replace
reports, agency administration or ad analytics that your work depends on.
## API and agent access
Metricool's official hosted MCP endpoint is `https://ai.metricool.com/mcp`. Its docs describe browser OAuth or
`METRICOOL_USER_TOKEN` with `METRICOOL_USER_ID`, and connections from clients including Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code,
Cursor and Gemini CLI. Agents can retrieve metrics and queued posts, publish immediately, schedule future posts and
change queued text, timing or destinations. Existing account permissions and plan limits apply. Metricool is not just
a human-only scheduler, and its MCP is not merely an analytics reader.
Flaghand's [live OpenAPI spec](https://app.flaghand.com/api/v1/openapi.json) and
[agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) describe a deliberately narrower posting contract:
1. Upload media and call `createDraft`; `post_at` proposes a time, not a scheduled job.
2. Run `checkDraft` on that revision to identify what would stop it posting as previewed.
3. Call `requestApproval`. The owner reviews and approves inside Flaghand.
4. Read jobs and use `verifyJob` for the available live check. An approval request is not a successful publication.
Flaghand OAuth MCP connectors receive `read`, `drafts`, `media` and `request-approval`. No API token can approve,
schedule or post. The difference is credential authority, not whether either product supports Bearer authentication or MCP.
## What approval means
Metricool's approval workflow lets a team request review from customers or collaborators, receive acceptance or changes,
and automatically publish approved posts at the scheduled time. Its cited MCP pages say account permissions apply, but
don't establish how that workflow constrains every MCP publishing tool. We have not tested that boundary. Don't assume
it has no approvals, and don't assume an MCP credential is incapable of publication simply because approvals are available
on the plan.
Flaghand freezes the account, time, text, media, alt text and outgoing request into a snapshot. It hashes that snapshot
with SHA-256 and records your passkey signature over the hash. Changing the posting content, account or time needs a new
approval, and the scheduler checks the signed snapshot again just before posting. Its X and LinkedIn previews are drawn
to match the real sites. That mandatory owner step is useful if you want an agent to prepare work without publishing
authority; it is friction if you want fully unattended publishing.
After publication, Flaghand compares available X text, author, reply chain, media count and alt text with the approval.
It doesn't verify link destinations or media-file identity, and it has no LinkedIn read-back. Metricool's performance
measurements answer a different question: how content performed, not whether it matches a passkey-signed snapshot.
## TikTok slideshows
Flaghand's [slideshow API](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/slideshows) and free [TikTok slideshow maker](/tiktok-slideshow-maker) use the
same renderer for the preview and output images; approval covers the render hash. [Flaghand and TikTok](/tiktok)
explains its current posting availability during TikTok's review. Metricool lists TikTok among its connected networks;
check its format-specific support if photo slideshows are your deciding requirement.
## Side by side
| | Metricool | Flaghand |
|---|---|---|
| Core fit | Analytics, reporting and multi-network social management | Publishing desk for a person and their agents |
| Free plan | One brand, with posting/analytics limits; no LinkedIn or X | Early access; public sign-up not open yet |
| Networks | Broader; LinkedIn paid, X paid plus add-on | X and LinkedIn personal profiles; TikTok subject to review |
| Agent access | MCP across plans; direct API on Advanced/Custom | API and OAuth MCP for drafts, checks and approval requests |
| Approval boundary | Review workflow on Advanced/Custom; MCP enforcement not established by cited pages | Owner's passkey over exact snapshot; tokens cannot approve |
| Stronger reason to choose it | Performance insights, reports, competitors and client work | Keep publishing authority out of the agent credential |
## Try Flaghand
Read [How to let an AI agent post safely](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely) for questions to ask of either
integration. [Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-mixpost.md
# Flaghand vs Mixpost for people and agents
Mixpost is a better fit if you want to run your own social publishing software, reach more networks or manage clients.
Flaghand is a hosted desk for a person whose agent prepares posts but cannot authorize publication.
Both have an API and MCP; the important difference is what those credentials can do.
**Checked on October 26, 2026.** Mixpost facts come from its own
[pricing](https://mixpost.app/pricing), [Cloud plans](https://mixpost.app/cloud),
[features](https://mixpost.app/features), [integration setup](https://docs.mixpost.app/services/),
[API](https://docs.mixpost.app/api/), [MCP](https://docs.mixpost.app/mcp/),
[scheduling](https://docs.mixpost.app/api/reference/schedule-post) and
[approval](https://docs.mixpost.app/api/reference/approve-post) documentation.
These are public-page checks, not a hands-on trial. Recheck the sources before buying or integrating.
## The short answer
- **Choose Mixpost** for self-hosting, source access, agency workspaces, more networks or an integration that can publish
using the permissions you give it. Its managed Cloud option removes server administration.
- **Choose Flaghand** when your own AI agent writes for you and you want a server-enforced boundary: no agent token can
approve, schedule or post. The owner signs the exact posting snapshot with a passkey.
## Where Mixpost is better
- **A genuine self-hosted choice.** Lite is free and open source. Pro and Enterprise are paid, source-available
editions, not the same open-source license as Lite. Paid source can be customized for your business, but the pricing
page forbids reselling or redistributing that code. Flaghand is a hosted, closed-source product.
- **Broader publishing coverage.** Paid Mixpost lists Facebook Pages, Instagram, X, LinkedIn personal profiles and
company pages, Threads, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, Mastodon, Bluesky, Pixelfed and Google Business Profile. Lite lists
Facebook Pages, X profiles and Mastodon profiles. Network support is not a promise that every post format works on
every network. Flaghand focuses on X and LinkedIn personal profiles; don't choose it for Instagram or company-page publishing.
- **Team and client operations.** Paid self-hosted plans advertise unlimited accounts, workspaces and users without
per-seat charges, plus approval flows and analytics. Separate workspaces can hold separate clients.
- **Your hosting choice.** Self-hosting gives you operational control, not zero operating cost: you run the server and
configure provider integrations. Mixpost Cloud supplies hosting, updates, backups and provider apps. Self-hosted
provider setup is once per application, not once per workspace; requirements differ by network.
## Pricing and access
Mixpost's self-hosted pricing page lists **Lite free**, **Pro $299 once** and **Enterprise $1,199 once**. Each paid
license covers one domain or subdomain and includes one year of updates. Renewal is optional; the fallback license
lets you keep the purchased version. The page doesn't quote the renewal price. Running a SaaS requires Enterprise,
not Pro. Budget separately for hosting and any provider costs.
Managed Cloud is a different subscription, not those self-hosted allowances:
| Cloud plan | Monthly billing | Yearly billing | Included users and channels |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spark | $29 a month | $249 a year | 1 user, 1 brand; no numeric channel allowance stated in its card |
| Momentum | $49 a month | $419 a year | 1 user, 24 channels |
| Business | $79 a month | $679 a year | 5 users, 48 channels |
| Agency | $149 a month | $1,299 a year | Unlimited users, 180 channels |
Mixpost displays these amounts with a dollar sign and excludes VAT; the cited pages don't identify the dollar
currency code. Cloud advertises a seven-day trial requiring a card. We did not start one.
Flaghand is in early access and public sign-up isn't open yet. This guide doesn't quote a Flaghand price;
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule) is its current entry point. A self-hosted license, managed team subscription and
single-person approval desk aren't interchangeable just because each schedules posts.
## API and agent access
Mixpost's current API and MCP docs cover Pro 7 and Enterprise 8. Its official MCP server lives at `/mcp` on your
instance and supports OAuth or a personal Bearer key. It documents Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor and Codex
connections. Agents can inspect accounts, create posts, schedule or queue them and read analytics within their user's
workspace permissions. It is not accurate to describe Mixpost as having no agent integration.
Its REST docs say a personal key carries the full authority of its creator, without narrower key scopes. MCP applies
workspace roles: Viewers read; Members and Admins can write, subject to permissions and approval requirements.
Choose the connecting user's permissions deliberately.
Flaghand's [live OpenAPI spec](https://app.flaghand.com/api/v1/openapi.json) and
[agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) describe a different contract:
1. Upload media and use `createDraft`; `post_at` proposes a time, not a scheduled job.
2. Run `checkDraft` on the current revision.
3. Call `requestApproval`. The owner reviews and approves inside Flaghand.
4. Read jobs and use `verifyJob` for the available live check. Asking for approval is not publication.
Flaghand OAuth MCP connectors receive `read`, `drafts`, `media` and `request-approval`. No API token can approve,
schedule or post, regardless of which agent holds it.
## What approval means
Mixpost has real approval controls. Its MCP documentation says scheduling or queueing in an approval-controlled
workspace leaves a post awaiting approval. Its REST scheduling endpoint returns `scheduled` for a user with approval
authority, or `needs_approval` without it; immediate posting is also subject to that approval requirement. The REST
approval endpoint can move an eligible post from `needs_approval` to `scheduled` when the caller has permission.
Don't mistake permission-based approvals for no approvals, or assume that every API credential is draft-only.
Flaghand freezes the account, time, text, media, alt text and outgoing request into a snapshot. It hashes that snapshot
with SHA-256 and records your passkey signature over the hash. Changing the posting content, account or time needs a
new approval; the scheduler checks the signed snapshot again just before posting. Its X and LinkedIn previews are drawn
to match the real sites. This narrower owner-only authorization is the reason to choose it, not broader platform coverage.
After publication, Flaghand compares available X text, author, reply chain, media count and alt text with the approval.
It doesn't verify link destinations or media-file identity, and it has no LinkedIn read-back. Mixpost's analytics and
activity tracking serve a different purpose; neither should be mistaken for this limited snapshot comparison.
## TikTok slideshows
Flaghand's [slideshow API](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/slideshows) and free [TikTok slideshow maker](/tiktok-slideshow-maker) use the
same renderer for the preview and output images; approval covers the render hash. [Flaghand and TikTok](/tiktok)
explains its current posting availability during TikTok's review. Mixpost lists TikTok publishing, but its general
network list isn't proof of identical photo-slideshow rendering or format support.
## Side by side
| | Mixpost | Flaghand |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Self-hosted license or Cloud subscription (see above) | Early access; public sign-up not open yet |
| Core fit | Self-hosted or managed social management for people and teams | Hosted publishing desk for a person and their agents |
| Source | Open-source Lite; paid source-available editions | Closed source |
| Networks | Broader paid coverage, including LinkedIn company pages | X and LinkedIn personal profiles; TikTok subject to review |
| Agent access | Official API and MCP, with user/workspace permissions | API and OAuth MCP with drafting and approval-request scopes |
| Approval boundary | Workspace approval controls; authorized REST callers can approve | Owner's passkey over the exact snapshot; tokens cannot approve |
| Stronger reason to choose it | Hosting control, network breadth, client workspaces | Keep publishing authority out of the agent credential |
## Try Flaghand
Read [How to let an AI agent post safely](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely) for questions to ask of either
integration. [Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-ocoya.md
# Flaghand vs Ocoya for posting with AI agents
Ocoya combines AI copy, visuals, campaigns and workflow automation with social scheduling. It also offers a REST API
and a hosted MCP server. Flaghand is a narrower publishing desk for an agent you already use: the agent prepares the
posts, but only the owner can authorize publication with a passkey.
**Checked on October 26, 2026.** Ocoya facts come from its own [pricing page](https://www.ocoya.com/pricing),
[product overview](https://www.ocoya.com/), [campaign features](https://www.ocoya.com/features/campaigns),
[API reference](https://docs.ocoya.com/api-reference), [MCP setup](https://docs.ocoya.com/mcp/get-started),
[MCP tool catalog](https://docs.ocoya.com/mcp/tools) and
[create-post tool](https://docs.ocoya.com/mcp/tools/ocoya-create-post).
These are public-page checks, not a hands-on trial. Prices and features can change; recheck those sources before buying.
## The short answer
- **Choose Ocoya** if you want one app to generate copy and visuals, build multi-post campaigns and automate work across
social networks and other services. Its MCP lets an external agent work with that publishing system too.
- **Choose Flaghand** if your own agent already writes and you want its credential to be incapable of approving,
scheduling or publishing. The owner signs off on the exact posting snapshot inside Flaghand.
## Where Ocoya is better
- **Built-in AI and design.** Ocoya takes a prompt, URL or objective and generates captions, visuals and hashtags. Its
overview describes reusable brand guidance for tone, colours, fonts and audience, along with copy in 37 languages.
Flaghand leaves writing to your own agent; it doesn't bundle an AI writer.
- **Campaign creation.** Ocoya can generate a sequence of network-adapted social drafts across a date range, then let you
review the batch or edit individual posts before distribution. It also generates blog campaigns; Flaghand isn't a blog
publishing or campaign-generation service.
- **More destinations.** Ocoya lists Facebook Pages, Instagram, X, LinkedIn profiles and company Pages, Pinterest,
Bluesky, Threads, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Google Business, Mastodon and others. Flaghand focuses on X and LinkedIn
personal profiles; TikTok remains subject to TikTok's review.
- **Connected workflows.** Ocoya advertises visual automations and an inbox for messages, comments and mentions. Its
example turns a new WooCommerce product into social content. Flaghand's draft/check/approve loop isn't a replacement
for that broader automation and engagement suite.
- **Available to try now.** Ocoya advertises a seven-day trial. Flaghand is in early access and public sign-up isn't
open yet.
## Pricing and access
Ocoya's US-dollar pricing page shows the following **monthly-billed** plans. VAT applies where applicable.
| Plan | Monthly payment | Users | Social profiles | Monthly AI credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $29 | 1 | 5 | 300 |
| Team | $79 | 5 | 20 | 1,500 |
| Agency | $199 | 20 | 100 | 5,000 |
The trial requires a card and renews at the selected price unless canceled. The yearly selector advertises two months
free; the default public view checked here doesn't expose annual totals, so this guide doesn't guess an annual bill.
Credits renew monthly. The campaign page says one credit per generated post or article; don't assume every other AI
operation consumes credits at that same rate. Custom arrangements are offered above Agency.
All three plan cards advertise 28 integrations. Those aren't 28 interchangeable social publishing networks: the catalog
also includes CMS, commerce, database and messaging connections, and marks Framer as beta. Check the destination and
format your workflow needs. The cited API and MCP pages don't establish a separate plan-by-plan access matrix, so this
guide doesn't promise every tool is included on Starter.
This guide doesn't quote a Flaghand price while its public sign-up and pricing remain closed.
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule) is the current entry point.
## How the AI drafts
Ocoya's social campaign mode takes an outcome, audience and date range and produces unpublished drafts with captions
and visuals. You can revise an individual post or approve a batch for its planned sequence. Its MCP also exposes
`ocoya_create_ai_post` and `ocoya_create_ai_campaign`: the latter starts asynchronous generation, so a generating result
isn't a completed or published campaign.
Flaghand uses the writing agent you bring. An agent can work from your source material, upload media, create drafts,
check them and request your approval through the API or MCP. It proposes a time; that proposal alone creates no
scheduled job. See the [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) and
[live OpenAPI spec](https://app.flaghand.com/api/v1/openapi.json).
## API and MCP access
Ocoya's REST API accepts an API key through `X-API-Key` or Bearer authentication. Its MCP endpoint is
`https://mcp.ocoya.com`, using browser OAuth. You sign in, review the requested permissions and choose which brands the
connection can access. The docs cover clients including Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and VS Code.
Its tools can read accounts and calendars, generate drafts and campaigns, edit posts, attach media, schedule, publish
immediately and run workflows. That is a real agent interface, not just a built-in caption writer. Its permission names
matter: `posts:write` covers drafting, editing, deleting **and scheduling**; `posts:publish` permits immediate publication.
Withholding immediate-publish permission therefore isn't the same as a draft-only connection.
Flaghand OAuth MCP connectors receive `read`, `drafts`, `media` and `request-approval`. No API token scope can approve,
schedule or post, on any plan. An agent can request the owner's decision, not grant it. The distinction is credential
authority, not whether the products have MCP or use OAuth.
## Does a person approve each post?
**Ocoya describes review, but not a universal per-post approval boundary.** Its campaign page says generated content
starts as drafts and lets you approve the batch or edit posts before distribution. Its MCP setup advises reviewing
consequential write actions, especially immediate publishing, deletion and workflow changes.
However, `ocoya_create_post` can save a draft with no time, schedule one with `scheduledAt`, or publish with
`publishNow: true`. The cited tool and setup pages don't establish a mandatory separate human approval over every
API/MCP-created post or an immutable, passkey-signed snapshot. We haven't tested workspace-specific review rules. It
would be wrong to claim Ocoya has no review, or to assume authorizing an OAuth connection means a person has approved
each future post.
**Flaghand requires the owner's passkey.** Approval freezes the account, time, text, media, alt text and outgoing request
into a snapshot. Flaghand hashes it with SHA-256 and records the owner's passkey signature over that hash. Changing the
posting content, account or time needs a new approval, and the scheduler checks the signed snapshot again just before
posting. Its X and LinkedIn previews are drawn to match the real sites. That mandatory owner step is useful if you want
an agent to prepare work without authorizing publication; it isn't fully unattended publishing.
## After publication
Flaghand reads X posts back and compares available text, author, reply chain, media count and alt text with the approval.
It doesn't verify link destinations or media-file identity/bytes, and LinkedIn read-back isn't available. The Ocoya
pages cited here don't document this kind of comparison against a passkey-signed posting snapshot.
## Side by side
| | Ocoya | Flaghand |
|---|---|---|
| Main strength | AI copy and visuals, campaigns, more networks and visual automation | Publishing desk for your own agent with owner-only authorization |
| Monthly-billed plans | Starter $29; Team $79; Agency $199, plus applicable VAT | Early access; public sign-up not open yet |
| AI drafting | Built-in generation and campaigns, with credits | Bring your own agent |
| Networks | Broad social, CMS and messaging catalog; not every integration is a social network | X and LinkedIn personal profiles; TikTok subject to review |
| API and MCP | REST API keys; hosted OAuth MCP with brand and permission selection | Public API/OpenAPI and OAuth or token MCP |
| Human review | Campaign draft/batch review; universal API/MCP per-post enforcement not established by cited docs | Mandatory owner passkey over exact snapshot; tokens cannot approve |
| Can an agent schedule? | Yes, with `posts:write`; immediate publishing uses `posts:publish` | No API token scope permits scheduling or posting |
## Bringing your drafts
If you can save your posts as CSV or JSON, Flaghand's
[migration recipe](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents#migrate-from-another-scheduler) describes its generic file format. Imports create
drafts, with old times as proposed times, not jobs or transferred approvals. This is not a one-click Ocoya migration,
and importing doesn't pause Ocoya's queue. The owner must decide the cutover; the CLI isn't on npm yet.
## Try Flaghand
Read [How to let an AI agent post safely](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely) for questions to ask of either tool.
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-outstand.md
# Flaghand vs Outstand for agents and apps
Outstand is a social publishing API for applications, with a hosted MCP server for agents. Flaghand is a publishing desk
where an agent prepares posts but a person must approve the exact snapshot. Both can sit inside an agent workflow;
they give that agent different authority.
**Checked on October 26, 2026.** Outstand facts below come from its own [pricing section](https://www.outstand.so/#pricing),
[facts page](https://www.outstand.so/facts) and [MCP tool reference](https://www.outstand.so/docs/mcp/tools), plus the sources
linked below. These are public-page checks, not a hands-on trial. Recheck the sources before choosing a plan or network.
## The short answer
- **Choose Outstand** when your app needs a multi-account publishing backend, usage-based pricing or an MCP tool that
can publish directly.
- **Choose Flaghand** when your agent writes for a person and a valid agent credential must never be enough to approve,
schedule or publish their posts.
## Where Outstand is better
- **Publishing from the hosted MCP server.** Its documented `create_post` tool can publish immediately or schedule a post.
You don't have to build a separate publishing UI if direct agent-authorized publishing is what you need.
- **Many connected accounts.** Pricing advertises unlimited accounts. Business begins with 1,000 account slots and says
more are available free by contacting support; unlimited doesn't mean every slot is provisioned at once.
- **Published volume pricing.** Both the included posts and overage rates are public. That makes it easier to model a
high-volume app's subscription and usage costs.
- **More networks than a personal X/LinkedIn desk.** Outstand lists LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Bluesky,
YouTube, Pinterest, TikTok, X, Google Business Profile, Vimeo and Reddit. Its
[configuration guide](https://www.outstand.so/docs/configurations) includes managed app credentials for the first
eight (Bluesky uses an app password); X, Google Business Profile, Vimeo and Reddit require your own developer
credentials. LinkedIn supports personal profiles and company pages, Instagram requires Business or Creator accounts,
and Facebook means Pages. Count the setup you need, not just network logos. Outstand's subscription price doesn't
establish the separate cost of obtaining and using your own X API credentials.
## Pricing and access
Outstand's checked public pages list these monthly plans:
| Plan | Monthly subscription | Included posts a month | Additional posts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pay-as-you-go | $19 | 3,000 | Posts 3,001–10,000: $0.007 each; above 10,000: $0.005 each |
| Business | $129 | 50,000 | Above 50,000: $0.005 each |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Custom |
Outstand's [documentation overview](https://www.outstand.so/docs) defines a post as “one post delivered to one connected
account.” Sending the same content to three connected accounts uses three units, not one. Don't compare an included
post count with another service until you check its counting unit too.
The facts page says there is no annual contract; that isn't an annual price. The checked sources don't publish an
annual discount or annual rate, so the table uses monthly subscriptions rather than an invented yearly equivalent.
Flaghand is in early access and public sign-up isn't open yet. This guide doesn't quote a Flaghand price;
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule) is the current entry point. An API serving many customer accounts and an owner's
review desk aren't interchangeable subscriptions.
## API and MCP access
Outstand's [official MCP page](https://www.outstand.so/mcp) documents a hosted endpoint at
`https://mcp.outstand.so/mcp`, with OAuth or API-key authentication and no additional MCP charge; publishing uses the
normal post quota. Its [tool reference](https://www.outstand.so/docs/mcp/tools) includes `create_post` for publishing
immediately or scheduling. OAuth access is bounded by current membership and its consent ceiling; an API key is bounded
by its creator's current role and the key's permission ceiling. Those controls matter even though a permitted credential
can publish.
The tool requires both `posts:create` and `posts:publish` permissions. Leaving out a scheduled time publishes immediately;
its documented scheduling window extends up to 30 days. TikTok is a meaningful exception to a blanket “publish now”
claim: the MCP flow defaults to an inbox draft, with an explicit option for Direct Post. Check the platform-specific
options as well as the tool's name.
Flaghand also exposes hosted MCP over Streamable HTTP, at `https://app.flaghand.com/mcp`, with OAuth sign-in or a workspace token.
The difference is authority, not local versus remote transport. The [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) and
[live OpenAPI spec](https://app.flaghand.com/api/v1/openapi.json) describe an agent's sequence:
1. Upload media and call `createDraft`; a proposed `post_at` does not schedule a job.
2. Run `checkDraft` on the revision. Passing the check isn't approval.
3. Call `requestApproval` and let the owner review and approve inside Flaghand.
4. Read the resulting jobs and use `verifyJob` for the available live check. Request acceptance isn't proof of publication.
## What approval means
Outstand's documented `create_post` flow accepts a publishing-capable credential and creates an immediate or scheduled
post. That flow doesn't require a separate owner approval over each post's text, media and time. Social-account OAuth
consent and an MCP client's tool confirmation are different decisions from per-post approval. The TikTok inbox route
still leaves the person to finish in TikTok; don't confuse inbox delivery with a public post.
This isn't a claim that Outstand has no optional review features or that every credential can publish. Its tool
reference explicitly requires publishing permission; an integration can also impose its own review workflow. Outstand's
[white-label scheduling guide](https://www.outstand.so/blog/white-label-social-media) places the approval workflow and
state machine in the customer application, which checks that a post is approved before calling the publishing API.
The comparison is with the cited publishing-capable flow, not a hands-on audit of all possible configurations.
In Flaghand, the owner must approve the publishing snapshot with a passkey. No API token can approve, schedule or post.
The snapshot freezes account, time, text, media, alt text and the outgoing request. Flaghand hashes it with SHA-256 and
records your passkey signature over the hash; the scheduler checks it again just before publishing. Changing the
posting content, account or time requires a new approval. One X thread is one review item, not a tap for each part.
A client-side tool confirmation isn't the same as that server-enforced owner boundary. Choose the extra step when the
person needs it; choose direct API publishing when an unattended integration is the job.
## What Flaghand checks
Flaghand's X and LinkedIn previews are drawn to match the real sites, and its draft check flags what wouldn't post as
previewed. Its X read-back compares normalized text, author, hidden reply mentions, media count, available alt text and
the reply chain with the approval. It doesn't verify link destinations or media-file identity, and there is no LinkedIn
read-back. A limited content comparison and a service reporting that a post was published answer different questions.
Through its [slideshow API](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/slideshows), an agent can lay out photos and text for TikTok. One renderer
draws the preview and the images prepared for posting; approval covers the render hash. The free
[TikTok slideshow maker](/tiktok-slideshow-maker) uses it too. [Flaghand and TikTok](/tiktok) explains current posting
availability during TikTok's review; the renderer isn't a promise of generally available TikTok publishing.
## Side by side
| | Outstand | Flaghand |
|---|---|---|
| Core fit | Multi-account publishing infrastructure for apps and agents | A publishing desk for a person and their agents |
| Public monthly plans | $19 with 3,000 posts; $129 with 50,000; overages extra | Early access; public sign-up not open yet |
| MCP access | Hosted server with OAuth or API-key authentication | Hosted server with OAuth or workspace token |
| Can an agent credential publish? | Yes, through the documented create_post tool | No API token can approve, schedule or post |
| Network fit | Twelve; own developer credentials required for X, Google Business Profile, Vimeo and Reddit | X and LinkedIn personal profiles; TikTok subject to review |
| Owner approval | Not required by the documented publishing-capable flow; TikTok inbox needs completion | Required passkey over the exact snapshot |
## Try Flaghand
Read [How to let an AI agent post safely](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely) for checks to apply to either service,
or the [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) for Flaghand's API and MCP workflow.
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-planable.md
# Flaghand vs Planable for approval workflows
Planable and Flaghand both put review before publishing. Planable is the stronger fit for teams coordinating client,
brand and legal approvals across many networks. Flaghand is narrower: a person and their AI agents, with a server rule
that the agent's credential cannot authorize a post.
**Checked on October 26, 2026.** Every Planable fact here comes from its own
[pricing page](https://planable.io/pricing/),
[content approvals guide](https://planable.io/guides/content-approvals-in-planable/),
[workspace guide](https://planable.io/guides/planable-workspaces/) and
[integrations page](https://planable.io/integrations/), read on October 26, 2026. This is a public-document comparison,
not a hands-on trial. Prices and features change; check those pages before choosing.
## The short answer
- **Choose Planable** for client collaboration, configurable approvers, sequential approval stages and a wider range
of social networks. Use Pro or above and Required approval if every post needs sign-off.
- **Choose Flaghand** when an agent prepares X or LinkedIn personal-profile posts and you want owner approval over the
exact posting snapshot, with no API token permission that can approve, schedule or post.
## Where Planable is better
- **A real team approval workflow.** Pro adds Required approval; Enterprise adds Multi-level approval, where stages
run in sequence. That is a better match for a writer, brand lead, client and legal reviewer than treating every
decision as one workspace owner's passkey approval.
- **Client and internal collaboration.** Workspaces separate brands and clients. Pro and above support private team
discussions and drafts, client membership and batch approvals. Unlimited users are included in the paid plans;
inviting another reviewer isn't another paid seat.
- **More networks.** Planable lists Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, Google Business Profile
and Threads for scheduling. Flaghand posts to X and LinkedIn personal profiles; TikTok remains subject to TikTok's
review. Don't choose Flaghand for Instagram or LinkedIn company-page publishing.
- **More than publishing.** Planable offers analytics and social-inbox add-ons, plus Canva, Slack and Zapier
integrations. Its universal-content workflow also supports collaborating on non-social content. Flaghand's limited
X read-back is not a replacement for team reporting or a social inbox.
## Pricing and access
Planable prices per workspace, not per reviewer. Basic is $39 per workspace per month on monthly billing; Pro is $59.
The pricing page labels its yearly-plan monthly equivalents as $33 for Basic and $49 for Pro, and advertises two months
free with annual billing. These are USD amounts; applicable taxes are extra. The annual figures are monthly
equivalents, not month-to-month billing.
Basic includes 4 social pages and 60 posts per workspace per month. Pro includes 10 pages and 150 posts. Enterprise
has custom pricing. **Required approval starts with Pro**, so Basic is not the price to compare if sign-off must block
publishing. The first 50 created posts are a total free trial allowance, not a monthly free plan; trial X publishing
is unavailable. Analytics and inbox add-ons cost extra on Basic and Pro.
Flaghand is in early access and public sign-up isn't open yet. This guide doesn't quote a Flaghand price; use
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule) for the current entry point.
## Who can approve and publish
Planable has four workspace approval modes. None removes the review stage. Optional allows review without blocking
publication. Required prevents scheduling or publishing until at least one person approves. Multi-level requires each
configured stage to clear before scheduling. Required is Pro and above; Multi-level is Enterprise.
Approval and publishing permissions can belong to different people. Planable's workspace guide distinguishes a Writer
from a Contributor who can schedule and publish, and an Approver who can approve and comment. Its approval guide also
describes a per-user approval permission. These controls matter: an Optional workflow is not a required human check.
Planable supports an MCP connector on all paid tiers and a public API on Pro and Enterprise. Its integrations page
describes AI-assisted drafting, finding outstanding approvals and reading performance, as well as REST integrations.
That is agent access, not an absence of it. The cited public pages do not establish the same never-authorize token
contract as Flaghand; this guide does not claim that Planable's integrations bypass Required approval.
In Flaghand, no API token scope can approve, schedule or post. OAuth MCP connections receive `read`, `drafts`, `media`
and `request-approval`. The agent can propose a time and request approval, but neither action schedules a job. A
workspace owner approves inside Flaghand with their passkey. That boundary doesn't depend on selecting a workflow mode
or giving the agent a different team role.
## What you approve
Planable can automatically schedule an approved post when it already has a date and time. It also has a setting to
lock content after approval. With that lock enabled, a post must be unapproved before editing its copy, media, timing,
image order or destination links. Use that setting when sign-off must cover the version that goes out. Planable has
substantive approval controls; the distinction is not simply that one product has approvals and the other doesn't.
Flaghand freezes the account, time, text, media, alt text and outgoing request into a snapshot. It hashes the snapshot
with SHA-256 and records your passkey signature over the hash. Changing posting content, account or time needs a new
approval; the scheduler checks the signed snapshot again just before posting. One passkey tap can cover a plan of
multiple posts, so human approval of every post doesn't mean a separate tap for every post.
Flaghand's X and LinkedIn previews are drawn to match the real sites, and `checkDraft` flags things that wouldn't post
as previewed. A successful check is not approval. Planable's cited guides describe workflow approvals and content locks,
not this same passkey-signed snapshot contract.
## After it posts
Flaghand reads X posts back and compares normalized text, author, hidden reply mentions, media count, available alt text,
reply chain and quote with the approval. It doesn't verify link destinations or media-file identity, and there is no
LinkedIn read-back. Planable offers analytics and publishing workflows; the sources cited here don't document this same
snapshot comparison. Neither analytics nor an accepted publishing request proves every detail matches the preview.
## Side by side
| | Planable | Flaghand |
|---|---|---|
| Best fit | Teams, agencies, clients and staged approvals | A person and their AI agents |
| Required approval | Pro and above; configured per workspace | Owner passkey required for scheduling and posting |
| Multi-level sign-off | Enterprise | Not a sequential client/legal approval workflow |
| Content after approval | Optional content lock; unapprove to edit when enabled | Posting changes need a new signed snapshot |
| Networks | Nine scheduling networks, including Instagram and Facebook | X and LinkedIn personal profiles; TikTok subject to review |
| Pricing unit | Per workspace, unlimited users; Pro $59 monthly or $49/month equivalent yearly | Early access; public sign-up not open yet |
| API and agents | MCP connector; public API on Pro and Enterprise | API, OAuth MCP, CLI and agent skill |
| Agent publishing boundary | Configurable workspace roles and approval workflow | No API token can approve, schedule or post |
| Live comparison | Not described in the cited sources | Limited X snapshot read-back; none on LinkedIn |
## Try Flaghand
Read the [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents), the [approval contract](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/approvals) and the
[live OpenAPI spec](https://app.flaghand.com/api/v1/openapi.json). For a checklist to apply to either tool, see
[How to let an AI agent post safely](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely).
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-post-for-me.md
# Flaghand vs Post for Me for agents and apps
Post for Me puts social publishing behind an API for your app. Flaghand gives a person and their agents a shared
publishing desk, with owner approval over the exact content before it goes out. The useful distinction is where you
want publishing authority to live, not whether both products have an API.
**Checked on October 26, 2026.** Sources are Post for Me's own [pricing page](https://www.postforme.dev/pricing) and
[MCP integration guide](https://www.postforme.dev/resources/ai-integration-using-the-mcp-server), plus the sources linked
below. These are public-page checks, not a hands-on trial. Prices and platform support can change.
## The short answer
- **Choose Post for Me** when you're building publishing into an app, need many connected accounts or want your backend
to publish without a separate owner decision on every post.
- **Choose Flaghand** when your agent drafts for a person and the server must refuse to publish anything that person
hasn't approved, even if the agent has a valid token.
## Where Post for Me is better
- **An app-facing publishing service.** Its pricing includes unlimited social accounts, projects, team members and API
keys. That's useful when one integration serves many brands or customers rather than one person's review desk.
- **Published prices at every volume.** Eight monthly tiers run from $10 for 1,000 successful posts to $1,000 for
200,000, each with the same unlimited accounts, keys and team members. Price your expected publishing volume, not just
how many accounts you connect.
- **SDK execution from an agent.** Its official MCP integration lets an agent search the docs and run TypeScript using
the SDK. That is a different kind of access from Flaghand's drafting-only publishing boundary.
- **More network destinations.** Its [FAQ](https://www.postforme.dev/faq) lists TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn,
Pinterest, Bluesky, Threads and YouTube, with TikTok Business as an additional connection option. Its
[Quickstart access guide](https://www.postforme.dev/resources/quickstart-api-access-level) documents Instagram Business
or Creator accounts, Facebook Pages, and LinkedIn personal profiles and company pages you manage. For LinkedIn, the
[connection-type guide](https://www.postforme.dev/resources/understanding-linkedin-connection-types) distinguishes
organization-capable connections from personal-only ones; don't assume every connection mode includes Pages.
Flaghand's current focus is X and LinkedIn personal profiles, with TikTok subject to review.
## Pricing and access
Post for Me's pricing page says “Starting at $10/month” and has you pick a tier by monthly post volume. Its tier
selector and the page's structured offers list eight monthly tiers:
| Monthly subscription | Successful posts a month | Per 1,000 posts |
|---|---|---|
| $10 | 1,000 | $10.00 |
| $25 | 2,500 | $10.00 |
| $50 | 5,000 | $10.00 |
| $75 | 10,000 | $7.50 |
| $150 | 20,000 | $7.50 |
| $300 | 40,000 | $7.50 |
| $500 | 100,000 | $5.00 |
| $1,000 | 200,000 | $5.00 |
Every tier includes unlimited social accounts, projects, team members and API keys, plus feed reading, post analytics
and a choice of your own or Post for Me's developer credentials. Above 200,000 posts a month, its
[Enterprise plan article](https://www.postforme.dev/resources/exploring-the-enterprise-plan) offers custom pricing after
a consultation.
Going over your tier doesn't shut you down, throttle posts or add a charge that month. Its
[subscription upgrade article](https://www.postforme.dev/resources/understanding-the-subscription-upgrade-process) says
it then schedules an upgrade to the next tier, tells you by email and bills the higher tier from your next billing
cycle. So 1,200 successful posts in a month on the $10 tier moves you to the $25 tier from the next cycle, unless you
adjust the subscription yourself first. The pricing page adds that it won't charge extra automatically and will reach
out if you consistently go over. Its FAQ still says it won't auto-upgrade a plan, and mentions a $5 tier the pricing
page doesn't list; the pricing page and upgrade article are the more specific sources.
Each successfully delivered post counts against your tier, but the pages
don't define how one post sent to several accounts counts. Don't assume its unit equals Outstand's
per-connected-account delivery unit. The checked pricing page and its tier data don't publish an annual rate or
annual-billing option, so don't turn a monthly tier into an advertised annual discount.
Flaghand is in early access and public sign-up isn't open yet. This guide doesn't quote a Flaghand price;
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule) is the current entry point. A multi-account API subscription and a person's approval
desk solve different jobs, so the headline price alone isn't the comparison.
## API and MCP access
Post for Me's [MCP guide](https://www.postforme.dev/resources/ai-integration-using-the-mcp-server) documents its official
`post-for-me-mcp` server, using a Post for Me API key. It exposes documentation search and sandboxed TypeScript SDK
execution rather than only one fixed tool per API operation. Its
[agent integration article](https://www.postforme.dev/resources/let-ai-post-for-you) describes an administrative API key
with full access to connected project accounts, without a user-level permission boundary. A sandbox for executing SDK
code isn't a read-only or draft-only publishing credential.
Flaghand offers a hosted, Streamable HTTP MCP endpoint at `https://app.flaghand.com/mcp`, with OAuth sign-in or a workspace token.
Its [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) and [live OpenAPI spec](https://app.flaghand.com/api/v1/openapi.json) describe the flow:
1. Upload media and call `createDraft`. A proposed `post_at` does not schedule a job.
2. Run `checkDraft` on that revision. Passing the check is not approval.
3. Call `requestApproval`. The owner reviews the request and approves inside Flaghand with a passkey.
4. Read the resulting job and use `verifyJob` for the available live check. A request for approval isn't a published post.
## What approval means
Post for Me's [public API reference](https://api.postforme.dev/docs) documents `POST /v1/social-posts` with a caption and
connected social-account IDs. Its `scheduled_at` description says that null or omitted means immediate posting;
`isDraft` prevents processing when set and defaults to false. The documented publishing request does not require an
independent owner approval of each post. Connecting a social account is not the same as approving everything later
submitted through an API key.
That is not a claim that Post for Me has no optional review features, or a hands-on test of every permission. It is the
authority of the documented API path, alongside the administrative-key MCP integration above.
Flaghand makes the owner step mandatory. No API token can approve, schedule or post. Approval freezes the account,
time, text, media, alt text and outgoing request in a snapshot. Flaghand hashes that snapshot with SHA-256 and records
your passkey signature over the hash; the scheduler checks it again just before publishing. Changing posting content,
account or time requires a new approval. An X thread is one review item, not a separate passkey tap for every part.
A model asking “shall I publish?” or a client confirming a tool call isn't the same contract as the server requiring
that signed snapshot. Conversely, a mandatory owner step is friction when your application is meant to publish unattended.
## What Flaghand checks
Flaghand's X and LinkedIn previews are drawn to match the real sites, and its draft check flags things that wouldn't
post as previewed. After publication, its X read-back compares normalized text, author, hidden reply mentions, media
count, available alt text and the reply chain with the approval. It doesn't verify link destinations or media-file
identity, and there is no LinkedIn read-back. This limited comparison isn't a general analytics service or proof that
every pixel remains unchanged.
Its [slideshow API](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/slideshows) uses one renderer for the preview and the images prepared for TikTok;
approval covers the render hash. The free [TikTok slideshow maker](/tiktok-slideshow-maker) uses that renderer too.
[Flaghand and TikTok](/tiktok) explains posting availability during TikTok's review. Don't infer general TikTok posting
availability from the renderer's existence.
## Side by side
| | Post for Me | Flaghand |
|---|---|---|
| Core fit | Publishing infrastructure for your app and its users | A person's publishing desk shared with their agents |
| Public pricing | $10 to $1,000 a month for 1,000 to 200,000 successful posts | Early access; public sign-up not open yet |
| MCP access | Official API-key-backed server with docs search and SDK execution | Hosted OAuth or token-authenticated MCP |
| Publishing authority | API key can publish; omitted scheduled_at means immediately | No API token can approve, schedule or post |
| Network fit | Nine network brands, including Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn Pages | X and LinkedIn personal profiles; TikTok subject to review |
| Owner approval | Not required by the documented direct-publish flow | Passkey over the exact publishing snapshot |
## Try Flaghand
Read [How to let an AI agent post safely](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely) for questions to ask of any integration,
or the [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) for Flaghand's API and MCP contract.
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-postiz.md
# Flaghand vs Postiz for posting with AI agents
Postiz and Flaghand both let an AI agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor or your own) draft your posts through an
API or an MCP server. The difference that matters is who can make a post go live. A Postiz API key acts as you and can
publish. A Flaghand agent token can't.
Every Postiz fact here comes from Postiz's own [pricing page](https://postiz.com/pricing),
[documentation](https://docs.postiz.com/mcp/introduction) and
[source repository](https://github.com/gitroomhq/postiz-app), read on October 25, 2026. Prices and features change, so
check them before you choose.
## The short answer
- **Choose Postiz** for open source and self-hosting, many more networks, AI images and video, or a team and clients
working in one place.
- **Choose Flaghand** if your agent writes the posts and you want a rule the server enforces: nothing goes out until you
approve the exact post with your passkey.
## Where Postiz is better
- **It's open source.** The code is on GitHub under the AGPL-3.0 license. Self-hosted, it has no plan limits ("every
install behaves as the top tier") and runs on your own infrastructure; you register each network's developer app
yourself. Flaghand is closed source and hosted only.
- **Many more networks.** Its docs list 34 platforms, among them X, LinkedIn and LinkedIn Pages, Instagram, Facebook,
Threads, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Reddit, Bluesky and Mastodon. Flaghand posts to X and LinkedIn personal profiles.
- **AI media built in.** AI images and videos, and clipping long YouTube videos into captioned vertical clips, with
monthly allowances on each cloud plan.
- **Teams and clients.** Unlimited team members from the Team plan up, client groups, and preview links clients can
comment on without an account.
- **A public CLI.** `npm install -g postiz`, beside the API, webhooks and an MCP server with 13 tools, on every cloud
plan. Flaghand has no public CLI package; agents use its API or its hosted MCP server.
## Prices
Postiz Cloud has four plans: Standard $29 a month (5 channels, no team members), Team $39 (10 channels), Pro $49 (30) and
Ultimate $99 (100). Every plan has unlimited posts, and yearly billing costs less. Each plan starts with a 7-day free
trial that needs a card; Postiz authorizes it and releases the hold. There's no free cloud plan, and self-hosting the
open-source code needs no subscription.
Flaghand has no free plan, and it's in early access: sign-up isn't open yet.
## Who can publish
Postiz's developer settings say an API key acts as you. Creating a post takes a `type` of `now` (publish at once),
`schedule` or `draft`, and the MCP server's `schedulePostTool` can "Schedule, draft, or immediately publish posts".
OAuth tokens "work the same way as API keys" on every Public API endpoint, and neither expires: you rotate the key or
revoke the app. Postiz's documentation, read on October 25, 2026, describes no key or token limited to drafts. An agent
that holds your Postiz key can publish.
Flaghand doesn't hand an agent that power. No API token scope can approve, schedule or post, on any plan. Those routes
refuse every token and accept only an owner of the workspace, signed in with a passkey. Apps that connect to Flaghand's MCP
server by OAuth, such as Claude and ChatGPT, get a draft-only token: `read`, `drafts`, `media` and `request-approval`.
## What you approve
Postiz's review flow is to save posts as drafts, send a preview link, read the comments, then schedule the posts
yourself. Its docs are plain about the limit: "Approval is a conversation, not a state: there is no 'approved' flag that
blocks publishing." The preview link isn't password protected.
In Flaghand, approval is a state the server enforces. The agent checks its drafts and asks you to approve them.
Approving freezes each post into a snapshot: the account, the time, the text, every media file and its alt text, and the
exact request that will be sent. Flaghand hashes it with SHA-256 and records your passkey signature over the hash.
Nothing posts without that signature. Changing the text, media, account or time needs a new approval, and the scheduler
checks the signed snapshot again right before posting.
## After it posts
Flaghand reads each X post back and compares it with what you approved: normalized text, author, hidden reply mentions,
media count, available alt text, reply chain and quote. It doesn't verify link destinations or the media files
themselves, and LinkedIn posts aren't read back. Postiz's documentation, read on October 25, 2026, describes no
comparison like this.
## Side by side
| | Postiz | Flaghand |
|---|---|---|
| Source | Open source (AGPL-3.0): self-host it or use Postiz Cloud | Closed source, hosted |
| Free option | Self-hosting; Postiz Cloud has a 7-day trial | No free plan |
| Paid plans | $29, $39, $49 or $99 a month, less billed yearly | Early access; sign-up isn't open yet |
| Networks | 34, including Instagram, TikTok and YouTube | X and LinkedIn personal profiles |
| Agent access | API, CLI, MCP (13 tools), webhooks | API, MCP (OAuth or API token), agent skill, webhooks |
| Can the agent's credential publish? | Yes: API keys and OAuth tokens act as you | No, on any plan |
| Approval | Preview links for comments; no approved state blocks publishing | Your passkey signature over the exact post |
| Check after posting | Not described in the docs | X: text, mentions, media count, alt text, thread and quote. LinkedIn: none |
## Moving your posts over
Flaghand's [migration recipe](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents#migrate-from-another-scheduler) reads Postiz's public API: its post
list and saved create requests. The list has only top-level posts, without their media or thread replies, so add those
before you import; the importer warns about it every time. An agent with read access to Postiz can read your
queued posts and create them in Flaghand. From a saved file, `flaghand import FILE --dry-run` shows what it would
create, and the same command without `--dry-run` creates it (the CLI isn't on npm yet). Either way it only creates
drafts: nothing is approved or scheduled, Postiz's dates come over as proposed times, and Postiz keeps posting its queue
until you change it there.
## Try Flaghand
The [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) covers the API and the MCP server.
[How to let an AI agent post on social media safely](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely) has nine checks to run on
any tool, this one included. [Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-publer.md
# Flaghand vs Publer for posting with AI agents
Publer is a scheduler for many networks, with a free plan, low per-account prices and, on its Business plan, an API and
an MCP server that AI apps connect to. Flaghand is a publishing desk for your own drafting agent: the agent prepares the
posts, but its credential can never approve, schedule or publish them.
Every Publer fact here comes from Publer's own [plans page](https://publer.com/plans),
[API documentation](https://publer.com/docs), [API authentication guide](https://publer.com/docs/getting-started/authentication),
[MCP help article](https://publer.com/help/en/article/how-to-set-up-and-use-publers-mcp-server-14orlq0/),
[approval help article](https://publer.com/help/en/article/how-to-approve-or-decline-posts-1r9siip/) and
[member roles article](https://publer.com/help/en/article/what-are-the-different-member-roles-and-permission-levels-ior42l/),
read on October 26, 2026. Prices and features change, so check those pages before you choose.
## The short answer
- **Choose Publer** for a free plan, many more networks, analytics, AI writing in the app, or a team and its clients
approving posts together, at a low price per social account.
- **Choose Flaghand** if your agent writes the posts and you want a rule the server enforces: nothing goes out until you
approve the exact post with your passkey.
## Where Publer is better
- **It has a free plan.** Free costs $0 for 1 user, 1 workspace and 3 social accounts, with 10 scheduled posts per
account at a time and 25 saved drafts. X accounts need a paid plan. Flaghand has no free plan, and it's in early
access: public sign-up isn't open yet.
- **Low prices that grow with you.** Publer charges by social account. Professional is $5 a month for one account and
$12 a month for three; Business is $10 a month for one and $21 a month for three. Billed yearly, the one-account
prices are $4 and $8 a month. Professional comes with a 7-day free trial and Business with a 14-day one.
- **Many more networks.** Publer posts to Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn profiles and company pages, Pinterest,
YouTube, TikTok, Google Business Profile, WordPress, Telegram, Mastodon, Threads and Bluesky. Flaghand posts to X and
LinkedIn personal profiles; its TikTok posting waits on TikTok's review.
- **More in one app.** Analytics and reports, best times to post, competitor analysis, AI writing and images, bulk
scheduling from a CSV file, recycling, RSS automations, a link-in-bio page, a browser extension and a mobile app.
Publer previews each post before it goes live too.
- **Approvals for teams and clients.** On its paid plans, an editor's posts can wait for an owner or admin, and a client
can be asked to approve posts for their own accounts.
## Who can publish
Publer's API and MCP server come with the Business and Enterprise plans. An API key carries the scopes you pick when you
create it: `workspaces`, `accounts`, `posts` ("Manage user's posts") and `media`. Drafts, scheduled posts and posts
published right away all go through the same `/api/v1/posts/schedule` endpoints, and Publer lists no scope that can
draft but not publish.
AI apps such as Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor connect to Publer's MCP server at `https://mcp.publer.com`, by OAuth or with
an API key. Publer says a connected assistant can create drafts and schedule posts "based on the permissions available
to your Publer account", and its Claude article advises: "Always review the account, content, and scheduling details
before confirming important publishing actions."
Flaghand doesn't depend on whose key it is or which plan you're on. No API token scope can approve, schedule or post.
Those routes refuse every token and accept only an owner of the workspace, signed in with a passkey. Apps that connect to
Flaghand's MCP server by OAuth, such as Claude and ChatGPT, get a draft-only token: `read`, `drafts`, `media` and
`request-approval`.
## What you approve
In Publer, approval follows each member's role. An owner or admin can set an editor to "Should be approved by
Owner/Admin", and a client with "Should approve posts" approves posts by editors and admins for their accounts. The
owner's own posts need approval only when such a client is set up. The approver sees the post under Pending approval,
then clicks Approve, which schedules it, or Decline, with a note. Publer's approval articles describe posts members make;
the pages linked here don't say whether a post made through the API or MCP waits for that approval, so ask Publer before
you rely on it for an agent.
In Flaghand, the agent checks its drafts and asks you to approve them. Approving freezes each post into a snapshot: the
account, the time, the text, every media file and its alt text, and the exact request that will be sent. Flaghand hashes
it with SHA-256 and records your passkey signature over the hash. Changing the text, media, account or time needs a new
approval, and the scheduler checks the signed snapshot again right before posting. Flaghand draws X and LinkedIn posts to
match the real sites, and its check flags anything that wouldn't post exactly as previewed.
## After it posts
Flaghand reads each X post back and compares it with what you approved: normalized text, author, hidden reply mentions,
media count, available alt text, reply chain and quote. It doesn't verify link destinations or media-file bytes, and
LinkedIn posts aren't read back. Publer's API documentation, read on October 26, 2026, gives a published post its link or
a failed state, and describes no comparison like this. Publer's analytics go much further than Flaghand's after a post
is live.
## TikTok slideshows
Through Flaghand's [slideshow API](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/slideshows), an agent lays out a TikTok photo slideshow: photos, text
and styles, slide by slide. One renderer draws it for the preview you approve and for the images TikTok receives, pixel
for pixel, and the approval covers that render's hash. The free [TikTok slideshow maker](/tiktok-slideshow-maker) uses the
same renderer. TikTok is still reviewing Flaghand: [Flaghand and TikTok](/tiktok) says what you can post until it
finishes. Publer publishes TikTok videos and photo carousels today.
## Side by side
| | Publer | Flaghand |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes: 1 user, 3 social accounts (not X), 10 scheduled posts per account | No |
| Paid plans, monthly billing | Professional $5 a month for one social account, $12 for three; Business $10 for one, $21 for three; Enterprise by quote | Early access; public sign-up isn't open yet |
| Trial | Professional 7 days; Business 14 days | No public sign-up yet |
| Networks | Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube, TikTok, Google Business Profile, WordPress, Telegram, Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky | X and LinkedIn personal profiles; TikTok in TikTok's review |
| Agent access | API and MCP (OAuth or API key), Business and Enterprise plans | API, MCP (OAuth or API token), agent skill, webhooks |
| Can the agent's credential publish? | Yes, with the `posts` scope; no scope is draft-only | No, on any plan |
| Approval | Role-based: an owner, admin or client approves members' posts (paid plans) | Your passkey signature over the exact post |
| Check after posting | Published, with a link, or failed | X: text, mentions, media count, alt text, thread and quote. LinkedIn: none |
Publer's prices above are for monthly billing; each additional team member adds to them, and every tenth social account
is free. Flaghand's access status above was checked on October 26, 2026.
## Bringing your drafts
If you can save the posts you want to keep as CSV or JSON, Flaghand's
[migration recipe](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents#migrate-from-another-scheduler) describes its generic import format, and
`flaghand import FILE --dry-run` shows what it would create (the CLI isn't on npm yet). The import creates drafts, with
old times as proposed times: it doesn't approve or schedule them, and it doesn't cancel anything in Publer. This is a
file-based recipe, not a one-click Publer migration.
## Try Flaghand
The [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) covers the API and the MCP server.
[How to let an AI agent post on social media safely](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely) has nine checks to run on
any tool, this one included. [Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-sendible.md
# Flaghand vs Sendible for agencies and freelancers
Sendible is built around managing several clients: workspaces, social profiles, team access, approval workflows and
reports. Flaghand is a narrower publishing desk: your own AI agent prepares X and LinkedIn posts, and an owner approves
the exact account, content and time with a passkey before anything goes out.
**Checked on October 26, 2026.** Sendible facts come from its own [pricing page](https://www.sendible.com/pricing),
[USD monthly pricing frame](https://pages.sendible.com/pricing-plan-iframe?accountTypeId=1976&country=US&freq=1),
[agency setup guide](https://support.sendible.com/hc/en-us/articles/360045190191-Get-started-with-Sendible-for-agencies-and-larger-teams),
[client setup guide](https://support.sendible.com/hc/en-us/articles/360014576251-Set-up-clients),
[supported platforms](https://support.sendible.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000122106-Supported-social-platforms),
[custom reports guide](https://support.sendible.com/hc/en-us/articles/208052626-Create-a-branded-custom-report),
[white-label setup guide](https://support.sendible.com/hc/en-us/articles/217099066-Set-up-your-white-label-account) and
[SSO page](https://www.sendible.com/features/sso). Prices and features can change. This is a public-documentation comparison, not a signed-in product test.
The help articles blocked direct automated retrieval, so their facts were checked against indexed text from those
official pages.
## The short answer
- **Choose Sendible** if you manage several clients' calendars, need Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn Pages, collect
client approvals and deliver reports. Its workspaces and unlimited users suit agency collaboration.
- **Choose Flaghand** if the work is X and LinkedIn personal-profile publishing, your own agent writes the posts, and
you want the server to refuse posting without a passkey-approved snapshot. It is not a replacement for client
reporting, broad network coverage or a white-label agency dashboard.
## What Sendible costs
Sendible's official pricing frame displayed these USD prices with monthly billing. The main pricing page supplies the
workspace and profile counts and lists unlimited users on every plan:
| Plan | Billed monthly | Included workspaces | Included social profiles | Users |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core | $35 a month | 1 | 6 | Unlimited |
| Plus | $99 a month | 3 | 18 | Unlimited |
| Premium | $199 a month | 7 | 42 | Unlimited |
| Elite | $299 a month | 15 | 90 | Unlimited |
| Enterprise | $750 a month | 50 | 300 | Unlimited |
The main page advertises a 15% saving with annual billing. We could not confirm each plan's exact annual charge from
the publicly retrieved pricing, so the figures above are monthly-billed prices, not annual equivalents. Additional
workspaces add six profiles each; the retrieved page did not expose their price. White labeling is a paid add-on on
Elite and Enterprise, not included in the base prices above.
Assignment and approvals start on Plus; custom branded reporting starts on Premium. For a freelancer with three
clients and six profiles each, Plus supplies three workspaces and 18 profiles. Seven clients with the same setup fit
Premium's seven workspaces and 42 profiles. Those are capacity examples, not a requirement that every client use a
workspace or a quote for extra profiles. Unlimited users does not mean unlimited social profiles.
Flaghand is in early access: public sign-up isn't open yet, and its pricing isn't public. The access link below goes
to the waitlist, not to an immediately available paid agency plan.
## Where Sendible is better
- **More client networks.** Sendible lists Facebook Pages, Instagram, LinkedIn personal profiles, company and showcase
pages, X, TikTok, YouTube, Threads, Bluesky and Google Business Profile, plus WordPress publishing. Its help lists
automated Instagram publishing for Professional Business and Creator accounts. Not every format is automatic: the
pricing page describes reminder/mobile completion for Instagram carousels containing video. Network support does
not imply identical analytics, inbox or format support everywhere.
- **Client workspaces.** Separate workspaces and profile allowances help organize several clients, and every plan lists
unlimited users. Approval settings let you assign a reviewer to a client or workspace. Flaghand has owners and
editors, with only owners approving; it has no equivalent white-label agency client portal.
- **Reports.** Core has standard reports. Premium adds custom branded reporting, with two custom reports per workspace;
Elite and Enterprise list three. Sendible documents PDFs, live report links and one-time or recurring report emails.
Check the chosen plan for each sharing or delivery option: the retrieved feature table did not preserve every
inclusion marker. Flaghand has X performance numbers for best-time learning and an agent can inspect top X posts;
it has no client report builder, competitor reports or LinkedIn analytics.
- **Your agency's branding.** Elite and Enterprise offer a paid white-label add-on. That is more than adding your logo
to a report, and more than Flaghand's owner/editor publishing workflow.
Flaghand publishes to X and LinkedIn personal profiles, not LinkedIn company Pages. Its public TikTok posting is still
in TikTok's review; see [Flaghand and TikTok](/tiktok). If those other client networks are essential, Sendible's broader
coverage is a concrete reason to choose it.
## API and MCP: do not confuse SSO with publishing
Sendible's white-label setup documentation says, "We currently only support SSO integration via our API." Its SSO page
describes API-based SSO on Enterprise, with application/use-case and security review before key access. That is a way
to sign users into an integrated product, not evidence of a generally available API for creating drafts, scheduling
posts or retrieving campaign analytics.
We did not find an official Sendible MCP server in the public pages and official-domain searches checked for this
guide. That does not prove a private integration is unavailable, or that an integration could not be built. If agent
access is essential, confirm the actual supported publishing operations and permissions rather than assuming an SSO
API key provides them. We did not request a key or contact Sendible.
Flaghand exposes a public [agent manual](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents), OpenAPI specification and hosted MCP server. Agents can
upload media, create and check drafts, and request approval. **No API token scope can approve, schedule or post.**
OAuth-connected agents receive drafting permissions, not an owner's authority. The boundary is enforced on the server,
not only written in the agent's prompt.
## Does a person approve every post?
**Sendible can require approval, but the exact workflow matters.** Its agency setup guide describes a workspace's
Post approver: "Adding someone here means that they will need to approve every post on that workspace before it is
sent." That is stronger than a preview link with optional comments, and should not be dismissed as having no approval
enforcement.
The client setup guide separately describes Needs approval before publishing for a user and an Approved by reviewer.
It also documents an administrator exception: when an administrator switches into the client's dashboard to create a
post, "you will not be forced to send the post for approval; however, your client will." The checked sources do not
resolve whether that exception also applies to the separate workspace Post approver setting. Do not turn these two
settings into a blanket claim that Sendible either always requires approval or always lets an administrator bypass it.
Confirm the configuration and user roles for the client's actual workflow.
In Flaghand, an owner approves in the desk with a passkey. The approval freezes the account, time, text, media and alt
text into a snapshot, records the passkey signature over its hash, and the scheduler checks it again immediately before
posting. A change to the posting content, account or time requires new approval. An owner can approve several posts
as one plan; they do not need to be online at each scheduled time. This owner may be an agency operator: owner approval
is not automatically approval by the agency's client.
## After it posts
The Sendible pages checked here describe scheduling, approval and performance reporting. They do not document comparing
a live post with a passkey-signed snapshot. That is not a claim about every internal check Sendible may perform.
Flaghand reads X posts back and compares normalized text, author, reply chain, media count and available alt text with
what was approved. It does not verify link destinations or media-file bytes. LinkedIn posts are not read back, so
Flaghand does not offer that same verification on LinkedIn. A report of reach or engagement is a different service
from checking whether a post matches its approval; an agency may need both.
## Side by side
| | Sendible | Flaghand |
|---|---|---|
| Several-client starting point | Plus: $99 monthly; 3 workspaces, 18 profiles, unlimited users | Early access; public sign-up isn't open yet |
| Custom reports | Premium: $199 monthly; 7 workspaces, 42 profiles, two custom reports per workspace | X metrics, not an agency reporting suite |
| Networks | Broad multi-network publishing, including LinkedIn Pages and WordPress | X and LinkedIn personal profiles; TikTok under review |
| Client approvals | Configurable user/workspace review; distinguish the documented administrator exception | Owner passkey approval; no white-label client portal |
| Must every post get a separate approval? | Workspace Post approver says every post; per-user approval has an administrator exception | Every posting plan needs owner approval; agent credentials cannot give it |
| API and MCP | Enterprise SSO API documented; general publishing API and official MCP not found in checked sources | API and MCP; tokens cannot approve, schedule or post |
| Live comparison with approval | Not described in the checked sources | X read-back, with the limits above; no LinkedIn read-back |
## Bringing client drafts
If you already have a CSV or JSON file, Flaghand's [migration recipe](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents#migrate-from-another-scheduler)
uses its own column format, so map the fields first. It creates drafts with proposed times, not approvals or publishing
jobs. This is a file-based recipe, not a one-click Sendible migration. Existing schedules in another tool remain active
until you change them there; importing a draft does not cancel the original.
For several clients, confirm workspace ownership and which person's passkey gives the final decision before choosing
a tool. A workspace boundary is not a substitute for a client's review process or a monthly reporting service.
## Try Flaghand
The [agent manual](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) describes the shipped API and MCP operations.
[How to let an AI agent post on social media safely](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely) explains what to check in
any product. [Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-socialbee.md
# Flaghand vs SocialBee for posting with AI agents
SocialBee is a scheduler for many networks built around content categories, with its own AI Copilot, an inbox for
comments and messages, analytics and team approvals. Flaghand is a publishing desk for your own drafting agent: the agent
prepares the posts, but its credential can never approve, schedule or publish them.
Every SocialBee fact here comes from SocialBee's own [pricing page](https://socialbee.com/pricing/),
[Copilot page](https://socialbee.com/ai-social-media-manager/) and help center articles on its
[API](https://help.socialbee.com/hc/en-us/articles/29979123668375-Do-you-have-a-public-API-or-white-labeling-options),
[content approval](https://help.socialbee.com/hc/en-us/articles/29979144914711-Content-Approval-for-Your-Posts),
[users and roles](https://help.socialbee.com/hc/en-us/articles/29979144795415-Workspaces-Users-and-Roles-in-a-Workspace),
[Zapier](https://help.socialbee.com/hc/en-us/articles/29979077611287-Integrations-How-Can-I-Use-the-Zapier-Integration) and
[Make](https://help.socialbee.com/hc/en-us/articles/29979220010775-Integrations-How-Do-I-Use-the-Make-Integration)
integrations, read on October 26, 2026. Prices and features change, so check those pages before you choose.
## The short answer
- **Choose SocialBee** if you want the app to plan and write your posts, recycle evergreen content by category, answer
comments and messages, and report results, across many networks.
- **Choose Flaghand** if your agent already writes the posts and you want a rule the server enforces: nothing goes out
until you approve the exact post with your passkey.
## Where SocialBee is better
- **Many more networks.** SocialBee posts directly to Facebook, Instagram, Threads, LinkedIn personal profiles and
company pages, X, Pinterest, TikTok, YouTube, Google Business Profile and Bluesky. For others, such as Telegram and
Mastodon, its [Universal Posting](https://socialbee.com/universal-posting/) reminds you on your phone to post by hand.
Flaghand posts to X and LinkedIn personal profiles; its TikTok posting waits on TikTok's review.
- **Built-in AI.** Every plan includes unlimited AI content generation, and Copilot builds a content plan with
ready-to-use posts and a posting schedule. Flaghand leaves writing to your agent; it doesn't bundle an AI writer.
- **Evergreen content.** Posts live in content categories that rotate through a weekly schedule; they can be recycled, or
expire after a number of shares or on a date. Flaghand has planning labels and weekly posting slots, but they don't
rotate or recycle content. One owner passkey approval can cover a plan of multiple posts. An X post or thread can
also include a delayed repost in that same approval; for a thread, only its opening is reposted.
- **Engagement and analytics.** One inbox for comments, mentions and messages on several networks, and analytics with up
to two years of history and exportable reports on higher plans. Flaghand doesn't provide LinkedIn analytics.
- **A trial you can start now.** Every plan has a 14-day free trial without a credit card, and a 30-day money-back
guarantee. Flaghand is in early access: public sign-up isn't open yet.
## Agent access
SocialBee's help center says it has no public API: "At the moment, no, we don't." Its help center doesn't document
an MCP server either. An agent reaches SocialBee through automation tools: Zapier's and Make's SocialBee action creates a post,
and Make also has an action that makes authenticated calls to SocialBee's API through Make. SocialBee can also
[hand a post to your own webhook](https://help.socialbee.com/hc/en-us/articles/29979075102743-Posting-Through-Webhooks)
when it's time to publish it.
The Zapier and Make actions import each post as Approved or Draft. That's a setting in the automation step, chosen by
whoever builds it; SocialBee's pages don't describe a connection that can only create drafts. SocialBee's Contributor
role can create content but not approve it, but the pages linked here don't say how roles apply to a Zapier or Make
connection. Ask SocialBee if that boundary matters to your workflow.
Flaghand is built for an agent to connect directly. No API token scope can approve, schedule or post, on any plan. Those
routes refuse every token and accept only an owner of the workspace, signed in with a passkey. Apps that connect to
Flaghand's MCP server by OAuth, such as Claude and ChatGPT, get a draft-only token: `read`, `drafts`, `media` and
`request-approval`. Its API, OpenAPI spec and MCP tool reference are public.
## What you approve
In SocialBee, a post is either Approved, and shared at its set time, or a Draft, which isn't shared until someone sets
it to Approved. The Content Approval tab lists every draft, including posts imported from RSS feeds, CSV files and
Zapier. SocialBee's pricing table lists the post approval system on Accelerate and above. Its roles separate writing from
approving: Owners, Managers and Publishers can approve, while Contributors can only create. More than one user needs Pro,
an agency plan or a user add-on.
In Flaghand, the agent checks its drafts and asks you to approve them. Approving freezes each post into a snapshot: the
account, the time, the text, every media file and its alt text, and the exact request that will be sent. Flaghand hashes
it with SHA-256 and records your passkey signature over the hash. Changing the text, media, account or time needs a new
approval, and the scheduler checks the signed snapshot again right before posting. Flaghand draws X and LinkedIn posts to
match the real sites, and its check flags anything that wouldn't post exactly as previewed.
## After it posts
Flaghand reads each X post back and compares it with what you approved: normalized text, author, hidden reply mentions,
media count, available alt text, reply chain and quote. It doesn't verify link destinations or media-file bytes, and
LinkedIn posts aren't read back. SocialBee's linked pages, read on October 26, 2026, describe analytics after a post is
shared, not a comparison like this.
## TikTok slideshows
Through Flaghand's [slideshow API](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/slideshows), an agent lays out a TikTok photo slideshow: photos, text
and styles, slide by slide. One renderer draws it for the preview you approve and for the images TikTok receives, pixel
for pixel, and the approval covers that render's hash. The free [TikTok slideshow maker](/tiktok-slideshow-maker) uses the
same renderer. TikTok is still reviewing Flaghand: [Flaghand and TikTok](/tiktok) says what you can post until it
finishes. SocialBee lists TikTok among the networks it posts to today.
## Side by side
| | SocialBee | Flaghand |
|---|---|---|
| Paid plans, monthly billing | Bootstrap $29 a month (5 profiles); Accelerate $49 (10 profiles); Pro $99 (25 profiles); agency plans from $179 | Early access; public sign-up isn't open yet |
| Yearly billing | Bootstrap $290, Accelerate $490 and Pro $990 a year | No public sign-up yet |
| Trial | 14 days, no credit card | No public sign-up yet |
| Networks | Facebook, Instagram, Threads, LinkedIn, X, Pinterest, TikTok, YouTube, Google Business Profile, Bluesky | X and LinkedIn personal profiles; TikTok in TikTok's review |
| Built-in AI writing | Unlimited, with Copilot | Bring your own agent |
| Agent access | No public API or MCP; Zapier, Make and Pabbly | API, MCP (OAuth or API token), agent skill, webhooks |
| Can the agent's credential publish? | An automation can import posts as Approved | No, on any plan |
| Approval | An Owner, Manager or Publisher sets the post to Approved (Accelerate and above) | Your passkey signature over the exact post |
| Check after posting | Analytics | X: text, mentions, media count, alt text, thread and quote. LinkedIn: none |
SocialBee's add-ons cost extra: $10 a month for each user or workspace and $15 a month for each set of 5 profiles.
Flaghand's access status above was checked on October 26, 2026.
## Bringing your drafts
If you can save the posts you want to keep as CSV or JSON, Flaghand's
[migration recipe](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents#migrate-from-another-scheduler) describes its generic import format, and
`flaghand import FILE --dry-run` shows what it would create (the CLI isn't on npm yet). The import creates drafts, with
old times as proposed times: it doesn't approve or schedule them, and it doesn't cancel anything in SocialBee. This is a
file-based recipe, not a one-click SocialBee migration.
## Try Flaghand
The [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) covers the API and the MCP server.
[How to let an AI agent post on social media safely](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely) has nine checks to run on
any tool, this one included. [Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-socialpilot.md
# Flaghand vs SocialPilot for agencies and freelancers
SocialPilot is the stronger fit for an agency managing many clients' social accounts, collecting client feedback and
sending branded reports. Flaghand is a narrower publishing desk: your own AI agent prepares X and LinkedIn posts, and
an owner approves the exact account, content and time with a passkey before anything goes out.
**Checked on October 26, 2026.** SocialPilot facts come from its own [pricing page](https://www.socialpilot.co/pricing),
[team roles guide](https://help.socialpilot.co/hc/en-us/articles/49895050689425-How-Do-I-Add-Members-to-My-Team),
[team and client approval guide](https://help.socialpilot.co/hc/en-us/articles/49895024701073-How-Do-I-Manage-Team-Client-Approval-Workflows-in-SocialPilot) and
[MCP server reference](https://help.socialpilot.co/hc/en-us/articles/49895071869969-SocialPilot-MCP-Server-and-Supported-Integrations) and
[LinkedIn publishing guide](https://help.socialpilot.co/hc/en-us/articles/49894950450449-How-to-Customize-Posts-for-LinkedIn-in-the-New-Create-Post).
Prices and features can change. This is a public-documentation comparison, not a signed-in product test. The help
articles blocked direct automated retrieval, so their facts were checked against indexed text from those official pages.
## The short answer
- **Choose SocialPilot** if several clients need Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn Pages or other networks, approval links,
a shared calendar and regular reports. Its agency plans include more of that work in one product.
- **Choose Flaghand** if the work is X and LinkedIn personal-profile publishing, your own agent writes the posts, and
you want a separate owner decision that the agent's credential cannot make. It is not a replacement for an agency
reporting suite or a client approval portal.
## What SocialPilot costs
The USD prices displayed on SocialPilot's pricing page at this check are:
| Plan | Billed monthly | Monthly equivalent, billed annually | Included social accounts | Included users |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essentials | $20 a month | $17 a month | 5 | 1 |
| Standard | $40 a month | $34 a month | 10 | 3 |
| Premium | $100 a month | $85 a month | 20 | 6 |
| Ultimate | $200 a month | $170 a month | 40 | Unlimited |
| Enterprise | Custom price | Custom price | Custom | Unlimited |
Manager approval starts on Standard; client approval starts on Premium. Premium's annual-billing equivalent is
$1,020 a year, calculated from the displayed monthly equivalent. For example, four clients with five social accounts
each use its 20 included accounts; six clients with five each would need extra accounts or another plan. These are
connected social accounts, not a promise of 20 separate clients with any number of channels.
The page lists extra social accounts at $4 a month, and additional users on Standard and Premium at $5 a month.
It offers a 14-day trial without a credit card. These are the checked page's prices, not a quote; older SocialPilot
pages and search snippets can show different Essentials and Standard prices, so recheck the linked page before buying.
Flaghand is in early access: public sign-up isn't open yet, and its pricing isn't public. The access link below goes
to the waitlist, not to an immediately available paid agency plan.
## Where SocialPilot is better
- **More client networks.** Its pricing page lists Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, LinkedIn, Threads, YouTube, Pinterest,
Google Business and Bluesky. Network support does not mean every post format or account type works identically.
Flaghand publishes to X and LinkedIn personal profiles, not LinkedIn company Pages. Its public TikTok posting is
still in TikTok's review; see [Flaghand and TikTok](/tiktok).
- **Client review.** Premium and Ultimate include client approval workflows. Clients can review through an emailed
link without signing in, approve, send a post back or comment. Flaghand has owners and editors, with only owners
approving; it has no equivalent agency client-review portal.
- **Reports.** SocialPilot includes account analytics and post performance across its plans. Standard adds PDF reports,
emailed PDFs and scheduled reports; Premium adds custom, CSV, competitor and white-label reports. Ultimate adds
advanced white labeling. Flaghand has X performance numbers for best-time learning and an agent can inspect top X
posts; it has no client report builder, competitor reports or LinkedIn analytics.
- **A team desk.** Standard includes team collaboration and a social inbox; Premium includes six users and client
management. If responding to clients' audiences and presenting monthly results are part of your service, those are
substantial jobs beyond approving a post.
## API and MCP: both products have agent access
SocialPilot has an official MCP server for Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor and other compatible tools. Its
reference describes creating and scheduling posts across accounts or groups, managing drafts and checking publishing
states. The pricing table lists MCP Server Integration on all four standard plans. AI access follows the connected
user's existing account permissions; MCP does not grant extra access.
Its pricing page explicitly includes API access in Enterprise. That is separate from its standard-plan MCP listing;
the checked pages do not establish a general REST API entitlement for each lower plan. We did not obtain an API key
or test either integration.
Flaghand exposes a public [agent manual](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents), OpenAPI specification and hosted MCP server. Agents can
upload media, create and check drafts, and request approval. **No API token scope can approve, schedule or post.**
OAuth-connected agents receive drafting permissions, not an owner's authority. The server enforces that boundary;
asking the model to remember to get permission is not the control.
## Does a person approve every post?
**Not as a universal separate approval step in SocialPilot.** Its team guide says posts by a Content Scheduler enter
Pending Review for a Manager, Admin or Owner. Posts created by a Manager, Admin or Owner can go directly into the
publishing queue without approval. Its client workflow guide is also explicit: even with Need Client Approval enabled,
"it is the Manager's choice and not a necessity to involve the client."
That is useful flexibility for an agency trusted to publish for its clients. It is not the same guarantee as requiring
a separate owner approval for every agent-prepared posting plan. Because MCP follows user permissions, check which
role you connect and which review steps actually apply; having MCP and having an approval feature do not prove that
every MCP-created post must receive a client's decision.
In Flaghand, an owner approves in the desk with a passkey. The approval freezes the account, time, text, media and alt
text into a snapshot, records the passkey signature over its hash, and the scheduler checks it again immediately before
posting. A change to the posting content, account or time requires new approval. An owner can approve several posts
as one plan; they do not need to be online at each scheduled time. This owner may be an agency operator: owner approval
is not automatically approval by the agency's client.
## After it posts
SocialPilot's MCP reference lets an agent monitor scheduled, published, failed and missed posts. The checked pages do
not describe comparing the live post with a passkey-signed snapshot; that is not a claim about every internal check
SocialPilot may perform.
Flaghand reads X posts back and compares normalized text, author, reply chain, media count and available alt text with
what was approved. It does not verify link destinations or media-file bytes. LinkedIn posts are not read back, so
Flaghand does not offer that same verification on LinkedIn. Posting status and marketing performance reports answer
different questions; neither product's status alone proves that a campaign worked.
## Side by side
| | SocialPilot | Flaghand |
|---|---|---|
| Agency starting point | Premium: $100 monthly or $85 a month billed annually; 20 accounts, 6 users | Early access; public sign-up isn't open yet |
| Networks | Broad multi-network publishing, including LinkedIn Pages | X and LinkedIn personal profiles; TikTok under review |
| Client approvals | Premium and above; emailed review links, with manager discretion | Owner passkey approval; no agency client portal |
| Must every post get a separate approval? | No: Manager, Admin and Owner posts can enter the queue directly | Every posting plan needs owner approval; agent credentials cannot give it |
| Reports | PDF from Standard; custom and white-label from Premium | X metrics, not an agency reporting suite |
| Agent access | Official MCP; Enterprise explicitly includes API access | API and MCP; tokens cannot approve, schedule or post |
| Live comparison with approval | Not described in the checked sources | X read-back, with the limits above; no LinkedIn read-back |
## Bringing client drafts
If you already have a CSV or JSON file, Flaghand's [migration recipe](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents#migrate-from-another-scheduler)
uses its own column format, so map the fields first. It creates drafts with proposed times, not approvals or publishing
jobs. This is a file-based recipe, not a one-click SocialPilot migration. Existing schedules in another tool remain
active until you change them there; importing a draft does not cancel the original.
For several clients, confirm workspace ownership and which person's passkey gives the final decision before choosing
a tool. A workspace boundary is not a substitute for a client's review process or a monthly reporting service.
## Try Flaghand
The [agent manual](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) describes the shipped API and MCP operations.
[How to let an AI agent post on social media safely](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely) explains what to check in
any product. [Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-sprout-social.md
# Flaghand vs Sprout Social for solo builders and small teams
Sprout Social is a full social media suite: publishing, a shared inbox, reports, listening, customer care and team
workflows, sold per seat. Flaghand does one part of that job. It is a publishing desk where your own AI agent drafts X
and LinkedIn posts, and nothing goes out until you approve the exact post with your passkey.
Every Sprout Social fact here comes from Sprout's own [pricing page](https://sproutsocial.com/pricing/),
[API documentation](https://api.sproutsocial.com/docs/) and
[ChatGPT connection page](https://sproutsocial.com/integrations/chat-gpt/), read on October 26, 2026. Prices and
features change, so check those pages before you choose.
## The short answer
- **Choose Sprout Social** if you answer customers in a shared inbox, report to clients or a boss, track your brand and
competitors, or post to many networks, and the price per seat fits your team.
- **Choose Flaghand** if you post to X and LinkedIn, your agent writes the posts, and you want the server to refuse
anything you haven't approved with your passkey, exactly as previewed.
## What Sprout Social costs
Sprout sells each plan per seat. Billed annually, Essentials is $79, Standard $199, Professional $299 and Advanced $399
per seat a month, and Enterprise is priced on request. Billed monthly, they are $99, $249, $399 and $499. Annual billing
is one payment up front for the whole term. Essentials and Standard connect 5 social profiles, Professional and
Advanced have no profile limit, and Premium Analytics and Listening are add-ons from Standard up, with no price on the
pricing page.
Approval workflows start on Professional, and the Sprout API on Advanced. At those list prices, billed annually, one
person on Essentials is $948 a year, and a team of three is $897 a month on Professional or $1,197 a month on Advanced.
Each plan has a 30-day free trial with no credit card.
Flaghand is in early access: public sign-up isn't open yet, and its pricing isn't public.
## Where Sprout Social is better
- **A shared inbox.** From Standard up, one inbox takes messages across networks, with case management, comment and
review moderation, and a warning when a teammate is already replying. Professional adds message tagging and saved
replies; Advanced adds case routing, chatbots, sentiment, approvals for replies and team productivity reports.
Flaghand has no shared social inbox.
- **Listening.** Standard monitors brand keywords and locations, 10 keywords per group (20 on Advanced). The Listening
add-on finds topics and tracks sentiment across conversations, with spike alerts. Flaghand doesn't do social
listening.
- **Reports.** Every plan, Essentials included, has profile and post-level reports across networks with unlimited PDF
and CSV downloads. Professional adds competitor reports for Facebook, X and Instagram, paid reports and your own
branding; Advanced adds scheduled report delivery and team reports. Flaghand reads your recent X posts' numbers to
learn your best times, and your agent can list your best X posts by views, likes or replies. It has no report builder,
competitor reports or LinkedIn analytics.
- **Teams.** You can add seats as you grow and restrict each person to the profiles they need. Professional adds
approval workflows and publishing permissions per profile; Advanced lets people outside your team review posts in
the approval workflow without a Sprout login. Every plan can pause all scheduled posts at once. Flaghand has owners and editors: editors draft
and check, and only owners approve.
- **Many more networks.** Sprout's pricing page lists Instagram, Facebook, X, LinkedIn pages and personal profiles,
TikTok, Threads, YouTube, Pinterest, Snapchat and Reddit, with WhatsApp, Google's business messages and review sites
listed from Standard up. Flaghand posts to X and LinkedIn personal profiles; its TikTok posting waits on TikTok's review.
- **More in one place.** A built-in AI agent with 100 credits per seat a month, AI alt text on every plan and AI help
with post copy from Professional, Canva and Adobe Express, mobile apps, and phone and chat support. And a trial you
can start today.
## Your own agent: the Sprout API keeps it to drafts
The Sprout API comes with Advanced. It reads your profiles' analytics, messages, listening topics and cases, and it can
create posts in Sprout, but only as drafts: its documentation says creating a publishing post "currently only supports
posts in Draft status", and every request must set `"is_draft": true`. A person then schedules or publishes the draft in
Sprout. Any user with Sprout's API permission can create API tokens, which the documentation calls account-scoped; it
describes no narrower permission scopes.
Sprout also has an MCP server for ChatGPT (Plus or above). Its connection page describes it for asking about your
social data, such as top content and campaign results, available for your TikTok profiles. It doesn't describe
creating drafts or publishing from ChatGPT.
So on Advanced, an agent can draft in Sprout but can't publish through the API. Below Advanced, the pricing page lists
no API. Flaghand's limit is the same on every plan: no API token scope can approve, schedule or post. Those routes refuse
every token and accept only an owner of the workspace, signed in with a passkey. Apps that connect to Flaghand's MCP
server by OAuth, such as Claude and ChatGPT, get `read`, `drafts`, `media` and `request-approval`: enough to prepare a
plan and ask you to approve it. Its API, OpenAPI spec and MCP tool reference are public.
## What you approve
In Sprout, someone opens your agent's draft and schedules or publishes it there. On Professional and up, approval
workflows let people submit, review and approve posts. The pages linked above don't describe a signature over the exact
post, or a check right before sending that it hasn't changed since approval.
In Flaghand, your agent checks its drafts and sends you one approval request in the desk. Approving freezes each post
into a snapshot: the account, the time, the text, every media file and its alt text, and the exact request that will be
sent. Flaghand hashes it with SHA-256 and records your passkey signature over the hash. Changing the text, media, account
or time needs a new approval, and the scheduler checks the signed snapshot again right before posting. Flaghand draws X
and LinkedIn posts to match the real sites, and its check flags anything that wouldn't post exactly as previewed.
## After it posts
Flaghand reads each X post back and compares it with what you approved: normalized text, author, hidden reply mentions,
media count, available alt text, reply chain and quote. It doesn't verify link destinations or media-file bytes, and
LinkedIn posts aren't read back. Sprout's API returns published posts and their numbers through its messages and
analytics endpoints; the documentation linked above describes no comparison with an approved version.
## TikTok slideshows
Through Flaghand's [slideshow API](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/slideshows), an agent lays out a TikTok photo slideshow: photos, text
and styles, slide by slide. One renderer draws it for the preview you approve and for the images TikTok receives, pixel
for pixel, and the approval covers that render's hash. The free [TikTok slideshow maker](/tiktok-slideshow-maker) uses
the same renderer. TikTok is still reviewing Flaghand: [Flaghand and TikTok](/tiktok) says what you can post until it
finishes. Sprout publishes to TikTok today.
## Side by side
| | Sprout Social | Flaghand |
|---|---|---|
| Price per seat, billed annually | Essentials $79; Standard $199; Professional $299; Advanced $399 per seat a month; Enterprise on request | Early access; public sign-up isn't open yet |
| Trial | 30 days, no credit card | No public sign-up yet |
| Networks | Instagram, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads, YouTube, Pinterest, Snapchat, Reddit; WhatsApp and reviews from Standard | X and LinkedIn personal profiles; TikTok in TikTok's review |
| Inbox | From Standard; routing and reply approvals on Advanced | None |
| Listening | Keyword monitoring from Standard; Listening add-on | None |
| Reports | Profile and post reports on every plan; competitor reports from Professional | X numbers for best times and your best posts; no report builder |
| Team approvals | Approval workflows from Professional; outside approvers on Advanced | Owner passkey approval on every plan; editors can't approve |
| Agent access | Sprout API on Advanced (drafts only); MCP for ChatGPT questions about TikTok data | API, MCP, agent skill and webhooks; tokens can't approve, schedule or post |
| Check after posting | Published posts and numbers through the API | X: text, mentions, media count, alt text, thread and quote. LinkedIn: none |
## Bringing your drafts
If you can save the posts you want to keep as CSV or JSON, Flaghand's
[migration recipe](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents#migrate-from-another-scheduler) describes its import format. The import
creates drafts, with old times as proposed times: it doesn't approve or schedule them, and Sprout keeps posting its
schedule until you change it there. This is a file-based recipe, not a one-click Sprout Social migration.
## Try Flaghand
The [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) covers the API and MCP server.
[How to let an AI agent post on social media safely](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely) has nine checks to run on
any tool, this one included. [Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-supergrow.md
# Flaghand vs Supergrow for LinkedIn with AI help
Supergrow is a LinkedIn content app built around AI: it learns your voice, interviews you for post ideas, repurposes
videos and articles, schedules from a queue and reports on results. Its Teams plan adds review and approval for
marketing teams that post for executives, and every paid plan includes an MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and other
assistants. Flaghand is a publishing desk for your own drafting agent: the agent prepares the posts, but its credential
can never approve, schedule or publish them.
**Checked on October 26, 2026.** Every Supergrow fact here comes from Supergrow's own
[pricing page](https://www.supergrow.ai/pricing), [MCP page](https://www.supergrow.ai/features/mcp),
[scheduling page](https://www.supergrow.ai/features/linkedin-post-scheduling),
[analytics page](https://www.supergrow.ai/features/analytics),
[MCP setup guide](https://help.supergrow.ai/en/articles/14737403-how-to-set-up-supergrow-mcp-integration),
[content approval guide](https://help.supergrow.ai/en/articles/13369864-content-approval-feedback-guide-admin-owner)
and [company page guide](https://help.supergrow.ai/en/articles/13648061-how-to-publish-from-your-linkedin-company-page).
Prices and features change, so check those pages before you choose.
## The short answer
- **Choose Supergrow** if you want the app to help find and write the post: voice training, AI interviews,
repurposing, a carousel maker, a posting queue and weekly reports in one place. For a team posting under several
executives' names, its Teams plan adds reviewer approval and program analytics.
- **Choose Flaghand** if your agent already does the writing and you want a separate publishing desk where the server
requires your passkey approval over the exact post. Flaghand also posts to X.
## Where Supergrow is better
- **Built-in AI writing.** Content DNA learns how you write. Postcast runs AI interviews, unlimited on Pro, that turn a
short conversation into posts. The post generator works from templates, and repurposing turns YouTube videos,
articles and PDFs into LinkedIn posts. Flaghand leaves writing to your agent; it doesn't bundle a competing AI writer.
- **Publishing extras.** Supergrow schedules an automatic first comment with the post, includes a carousel maker, and
publishes from LinkedIn company pages as well as profiles. Flaghand publishes to LinkedIn personal profiles, not
company pages, and doesn't add first comments.
- **LinkedIn analytics.** Supergrow tracks impressions, reactions, comments, reposts, follower growth and engagement
rate by post and period, with a weekly report on your best post and one that needs work, and company-page analytics.
Teams adds program analytics across members. Flaghand doesn't currently provide LinkedIn analytics or read-back.
- **Teams for executive posting.** Teams includes five accounts, reviewer approval, an organisation dashboard, a
calendar across members, publishing on members' behalf, challenges and Slack notifications. Flaghand has no
comparable program dashboard, team analytics or challenges.
- **A trial you can start now.** Every Supergrow plan includes a seven-day free trial. Flaghand is in early access:
public sign-up isn't open yet.
## Your own agent: both have an MCP
Supergrow isn't limited to its own AI writer. Its MCP works with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Windsurf and other MCP
clients, on every paid plan at no extra cost. The setup guide's examples include drafting a post and queuing it for the
best time, filling empty calendar slots with approved drafts, attaching images, video and PDFs, and pulling analytics.
You connect by creating an API key in Supergrow; the connection URL contains that key, so the guide says never to share
it. Separately, the pricing page lists API access and custom integrations on the Enterprise plan.
Supergrow's MCP page says the MCP "can draft, schedule, and queue content, but nothing goes live without your
approval." That is an approval claim, not evidence of no approval. The pages linked here don't describe how that
approval is given for a post an assistant queues, a key that can draft but not schedule, or a signature over an
unchangeable copy of the post. Its review workflow on Teams is a board stage: a draft moves to In Review, a chosen
reviewer approves it or sends feedback, and the approved post moves to Approved, ready to schedule. Check those boundaries with
Supergrow if they matter to your workflow.
Flaghand makes that credential boundary explicit. No API token scope can approve, schedule or post, on any plan. Those
routes refuse every token and accept only an owner signed in with a passkey. Apps connected to Flaghand's MCP server by
OAuth receive `read`, `drafts`, `media` and `request-approval`: enough to prepare a plan and ask you to review it, not to
make it live. Its API, OpenAPI spec and MCP tool reference are public.
## What you approve in Flaghand
Your agent checks the drafts and sends you one approval request in the desk. Approving freezes each post into a
snapshot: the account, time, text, media, alt text and exact publishing request. Flaghand hashes it with SHA-256 and
records your passkey signature over the hash. Changing the text, media, account or time needs a new approval, and the
scheduler checks the signed snapshot again right before posting.
Flaghand draws X and LinkedIn previews to match the real sites, including where LinkedIn's "… more" cuts the text, and
its check flags anything that wouldn't post exactly as previewed. This is a publishing check, not a promise that the
writing will perform well. The Supergrow pages linked here don't describe a feed preview or bold and italic text
styling; that isn't proof it lacks them. For formatting by hand,
[Formatting a LinkedIn post](/docs/guides/formatting-a-linkedin-post) covers line breaks, bold and italic Unicode
letters, lists, hashtags, mentions and where "see more" cuts a post, and the free
[LinkedIn post previewer](/linkedin-post-preview) shows it without an account.
## After it posts
Flaghand reads each X post back and compares it with what you approved: normalized text, author, hidden reply mentions,
media count, available alt text, reply chain and quote. It doesn't verify link destinations or media-file bytes, and
LinkedIn posts aren't read back. Supergrow's linked pages describe LinkedIn analytics, not this signed-snapshot
comparison; Flaghand's X check shouldn't be mistaken for a LinkedIn feature.
## TikTok slideshows
Through Flaghand's [slideshow API](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/slideshows), an agent lays out a TikTok photo slideshow: photos, text
and styles, slide by slide. One renderer draws it for the preview you approve and for the images TikTok receives, pixel
for pixel, and approval covers the render hash. The free [TikTok slideshow maker](/tiktok-slideshow-maker) uses the same
renderer. TikTok is still reviewing Flaghand: [Flaghand and TikTok](/tiktok) says what you can post until it finishes.
This isn't a reason to replace Supergrow if LinkedIn writing and analytics are what you need.
## Side by side
| | Supergrow | Flaghand |
|---|---|---|
| Paid plans, monthly billing | Pro $39 a month, one account; Teams $199 a month, five accounts; Enterprise custom | Early access; public sign-up isn't open yet |
| Yearly billing | Pro $31 a month; Teams $189 a month, billed annually | No public plans yet |
| Trial | Seven days on every plan | No public sign-up yet |
| Built-in AI writing | Content DNA, Postcast interviews, post generator, repurposing | Bring your own agent |
| Preview and formatting | Not described on the pages linked here | The desk draws X and LinkedIn posts as their feeds do, with LinkedIn's "… more"; free formatter and previewer |
| LinkedIn analytics | Profile and per-post results, weekly report, company pages; team analytics on Teams | Not available |
| Publishing | LinkedIn profiles and company pages, posting queue, automatic first comment | X and LinkedIn personal profiles; TikTok in review |
| Agent access | MCP on paid plans, including scheduling and queueing; API on Enterprise | API, MCP, agent skill and webhooks; tokens can't approve, schedule or post |
| Approval | "Nothing goes live without your approval" (MCP page); reviewer approval on Teams | Owner passkey signature over the exact publishing snapshot |
The Supergrow prices are from its pricing page: monthly amounts for monthly billing, and the yearly row's per-month
amounts when billed annually. Check its current billing options before subscribing. Flaghand's access status above was
checked on October 26, 2026.
## Bringing your drafts
If you can save the posts you want to keep as CSV or JSON, Flaghand's
[migration recipe](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents#migrate-from-another-scheduler) describes its generic import format. The import
creates drafts, with old times as proposed times: it doesn't approve or schedule them, and it doesn't cancel anything
in Supergrow. This is a file-based recipe, not a one-click Supergrow migration.
## Try Flaghand
The [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) covers the API and MCP server.
[How to schedule LinkedIn posts](/docs/guides/how-to-schedule-linkedin-posts) compares LinkedIn's own scheduler,
publishing tools and the API. [How to let an AI agent post on social media safely](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely)
has nine checks to run on any tool, this one included. [Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-taplio.md
# Flaghand vs Taplio for LinkedIn with AI help
Taplio puts AI writing, a post library, scheduling and LinkedIn analytics in one app. It also has an MCP connector for
people who write with Claude, ChatGPT or another assistant. Flaghand is a publishing desk for your own drafting agent:
the agent prepares the posts, but its credential can never approve, schedule or publish them.
Every Taplio fact here comes from Taplio's own [pricing page](https://taplio.com/pricing),
[AI writing page](https://taplio.com/create-linkedin-post-with-ai),
[scheduler page](https://taplio.com/linkedin-post-scheduler),
[analytics page](https://taplio.com/linkedin-analytics-tool) and
[MCP guide](https://taplio.com/taplio-linkedin-mcp), read on October 26, 2026. Prices and features change, so check those
pages before you choose.
## The short answer
- **Choose Taplio** if you want LinkedIn ideas, AI writing, a library of successful posts and performance reports in the
same place as your queue. It is also an option for your own agent through MCP.
- **Choose Flaghand** if your agent already does the writing and you want a separate publishing desk where the server
requires your passkey approval over the exact post. Flaghand also posts to X.
## Where Taplio is better
- **Built-in AI writing.** Its Growth plan adds AI-written posts, and Pro includes unlimited AI posts and comments.
Taplio can turn notes into a post, rewrite its hook and adapt its tone. Flaghand leaves writing to your agent; it
doesn't bundle a competing AI writer.
- **An inspiration library.** Taplio lets you search successful LinkedIn posts and save them in collections, with ideas
matched to your niche. Flaghand doesn't have a comparable discovery library of other creators' posts.
- **LinkedIn analytics.** Taplio tracks followers, impressions, engagement rate and individual-post performance, with
historical reports and shareable results. Flaghand doesn't currently provide LinkedIn analytics or read-back.
- **LinkedIn company pages.** Taplio's scheduler page supports personal accounts and company pages. Flaghand publishes
to LinkedIn personal profiles, not company pages.
- **A trial you can start now.** Taplio advertises seven days of Pro access before switching to the plan you selected.
Flaghand is in early access: public sign-up isn't open yet.
## Your own agent: both have an MCP
Taplio isn't limited to its own AI writer. Its MCP guide describes connecting Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other
compatible assistants to your Taplio account. Tools include `create_draft`, `update_draft`, `schedule_draft` and
`publish_draft`, plus tools for research, analytics and comments. Taplio says the assistant prepares the content and
requires your explicit approval before publishing.
That is an approval claim, not evidence of no approval. The linked guide doesn't describe a separate owner passkey
signature over an immutable publishing snapshot, or a credential that can draft but cannot call its publishing tools.
Check those boundaries with Taplio if they matter to your workflow.
Flaghand makes that credential boundary explicit. No API token scope can approve, schedule or post, on any plan. Those
routes refuse every token and accept only an owner signed in with a passkey. Apps connected to Flaghand's MCP server by
OAuth receive `read`, `drafts`, `media` and `request-approval`: enough to prepare a plan and ask you to review it, not to
make it live. Its API, OpenAPI spec and MCP tool reference are public.
## What you approve in Flaghand
Your agent checks the drafts and sends you one approval request in the desk. Approving freezes each post into a
snapshot: the account, time, text, media, alt text and exact publishing request. Flaghand hashes it with SHA-256 and
records your passkey signature over the hash. Changing the text, media, account or time needs a new approval, and the
scheduler checks the signed snapshot again right before posting.
Flaghand draws X and LinkedIn previews to match the real sites, and its check flags anything that wouldn't post exactly
as previewed. This is a publishing check, not a promise that the writing will perform well. Taplio is the stronger fit
if you want the app to help find the idea, write the post and analyze its LinkedIn results.
## After it posts
Flaghand reads each X post back and compares it with what you approved: normalized text, author, hidden reply mentions,
media count, available alt text, reply chain and quote. It doesn't verify link destinations or media-file bytes, and
LinkedIn posts aren't read back. Taplio's linked pages describe LinkedIn analytics, not this signed-snapshot comparison;
Flaghand's X check shouldn't be mistaken for a LinkedIn feature.
## TikTok slideshows
Through Flaghand's [slideshow API](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/slideshows), an agent lays out a TikTok photo slideshow: photos, text
and styles, slide by slide. One renderer draws it for the preview you approve and for the images TikTok receives, pixel
for pixel, and approval covers the render hash. The free [TikTok slideshow maker](/tiktok-slideshow-maker) uses the same
renderer. TikTok is still reviewing Flaghand: [Flaghand and TikTok](/tiktok) says what you can post until it finishes.
This isn't a reason to replace Taplio if LinkedIn writing and analytics are what you need.
## Side by side
| | Taplio | Flaghand |
|---|---|---|
| Paid plans, monthly billing | Starter $39 a month; Growth $69 a month; Pro $199 a month | Early access; public sign-up isn't open yet |
| Trial | Seven days of Pro access, then your selected plan | No public sign-up yet |
| Built-in AI writing | Growth and Pro | Bring your own agent |
| Inspiration | Searchable LinkedIn post library and saved collections | No comparable discovery library |
| LinkedIn analytics | Followers, impressions, engagement rate and per-post results | Not available |
| Publishing | LinkedIn personal accounts and company pages | X and LinkedIn personal profiles; TikTok in review |
| Agent access | MCP, including schedule and publish tools | API, MCP, agent skill and webhooks; tokens can't approve, schedule or post |
| Approval | Explicit approval described in the MCP guide; no passkey-signed snapshot described there | Owner passkey signature over the exact publishing snapshot |
These Taplio prices are the pricing cards' monthly billing amounts, not annual-billing equivalents. Check Taplio's
current billing options before subscribing. Flaghand's access status above was checked on October 26, 2026.
## Bringing your drafts
If you can save the posts you want to keep as CSV or JSON, Flaghand's
[migration recipe](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents#migrate-from-another-scheduler) describes its generic import format. The import
creates drafts, with old times as proposed times: it doesn't approve or schedule them, and it doesn't cancel anything
in Taplio. This is a file-based recipe, not a one-click Taplio migration.
## Try Flaghand
The [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) covers the API and MCP server.
[How to let an AI agent post on social media safely](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely) has nine checks to run on
any tool, this one included. [Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-tweet-hunter.md
# Flaghand vs Tweet Hunter for X with AI help
Tweet Hunter puts a tweet library, AI writing, scheduling and X analytics in one app. Flaghand takes a different job:
your own agent writes the posts, and Flaghand checks, previews and publishes only the exact plan you approve with your
passkey. Its agent credentials can't approve, schedule or post.
Every Tweet Hunter fact here comes from Tweet Hunter's own [pricing page](https://tweethunter.io/pricing),
[home page](https://tweethunter.io/), [scheduler page](https://tweethunter.io/tweet-scheduler) and
[analytics page](https://tweethunter.io/x-analytics), read on October 26, 2026. Prices and features change, so check
those pages before you choose.
## The short answer
- **Choose Tweet Hunter** if you want X inspiration, a built-in AI writer, growth automation and performance reports
alongside your posting queue.
- **Choose Flaghand** if Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor or your own agent already writes for you, and you want a
publishing desk with server-enforced owner approval. Flaghand also posts to LinkedIn personal profiles.
## Where Tweet Hunter is better
- **Built-in AI writing.** Grow includes daily AI-written tweets, rewriting, help finishing a tweet, and thread ideas
and hooks. Enterprise adds custom-trained AI, AI replies and unlimited AI use. Flaghand leaves the writing to your
agent rather than bundling its own AI writer.
- **An inspiration library.** Search successful tweets by keyword or account, browse curated examples and get custom
suggestions. The pricing and feature pages give different library totals, so this guide doesn't use one as a
comparison number. Flaghand doesn't have a comparable discovery library of other creators' tweets.
- **X analytics in the same workspace.** The pricing page includes X analytics from Discover onward. Its analytics
page describes follower growth, profile visits, engagements, impressions and individual-post results, plus shareable
reports and ways to reuse top posts.
- **Growth automation.** Evergreen tweets, auto-retweets, auto-plugs and auto-DMs are listed on the pricing page.
Flaghand can include a delayed X repost in the owner's signed approval for a post or thread; for a thread, only its
opening is reposted. It isn't an evergreen recycling engine, and a Flaghand agent can never send a DM for you.
- **A trial you can start now.** All three plans advertise seven days free. Flaghand is in early access: public sign-up
isn't open yet.
## Your own agent versus the built-in writer
Tweet Hunter's linked pages explain writing with its AI and managing its queue. They don't explain how to connect your
own agent through an MCP server or a draft-only API credential. That isn't proof that no integration exists: ask Tweet
Hunter about its current developer access before designing a workflow around it.
Flaghand documents that workflow. Your agent uses its API or MCP server to draft, upload media, check the result and
request your approval. No API token scope can approve, schedule or post, on any plan. Those routes refuse every token
and accept only an owner signed in with a passkey. OAuth connections receive `read`, `drafts`, `media` and
`request-approval`, not publishing authority. Its API, OpenAPI spec and MCP tool reference are public.
Choosing Flaghand means bringing your own writing tool. It doesn't replace Tweet Hunter's idea discovery, built-in AI
or analytics suite just by offering an agent connection.
## What you approve in Flaghand
The agent sends you one approval request in the desk. Approving freezes each post into a snapshot: the account, time,
text, media, alt text and exact publishing request. Flaghand hashes it with SHA-256 and records your passkey signature over the hash.
Changing the text, media, account or time needs a new approval, and the scheduler checks the signed snapshot again right
before posting. X threads stay together as one review item.
Flaghand draws X and LinkedIn previews to match the real sites, and its check flags anything that wouldn't post exactly
as previewed. Tweet Hunter's linked pages describe drafts and scheduled publication, not a separate owner passkey
signature over the publishing snapshot. That is a difference in documented controls, not a claim that Tweet Hunter
publishes without permission.
## After it posts
Flaghand reads each X post back and compares it with what you approved: normalized text, author, hidden reply mentions,
media count, available alt text, reply chain and quote. It doesn't verify link destinations or media-file bytes, and
LinkedIn posts aren't read back. Tweet Hunter's linked pages describe performance analytics, not this comparison.
Read-back answers "did this match what I approved?" Analytics answers "how did it perform?" They aren't interchangeable;
choose Tweet Hunter if the built-in performance workspace is what you need.
## TikTok slideshows
Through Flaghand's [slideshow API](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/slideshows), an agent lays out a TikTok photo slideshow: photos, text
and styles, slide by slide. One renderer draws it for the preview you approve and for the images TikTok receives, pixel
for pixel, and approval covers the render hash. The free [TikTok slideshow maker](/tiktok-slideshow-maker) uses the same
renderer. TikTok is still reviewing Flaghand: [Flaghand and TikTok](/tiktok) says what you can post until it finishes.
This is separate from the X writing and growth workflow Tweet Hunter sells.
## Side by side
| | Tweet Hunter | Flaghand |
|---|---|---|
| Paid plans, monthly billing | Discover $29 a month; Grow $49 a month; Enterprise $200 a month | Early access; public sign-up isn't open yet |
| Trial | Seven days on each plan | No public sign-up yet |
| Built-in AI writing | Grow and Enterprise | Bring your own agent |
| Inspiration | Searchable tweet library, curated examples and custom suggestions | No comparable discovery library |
| Analytics | X analytics from Discover onward | X post read-back is a content check, not a replacement for Tweet Hunter's analytics suite |
| Publishing | X posts and threads | X and LinkedIn personal profiles; TikTok in review |
| Agent access | Own-agent MCP/API access not explained on the linked pages | API, MCP, agent skill and webhooks; tokens can't approve, schedule or post |
| Approval | No passkey-signed publishing snapshot described on the linked pages | Owner passkey signature over the exact publishing snapshot |
These are Tweet Hunter's monthly billing amounts. Its page also has annual billing and promotional labels; this guide
doesn't treat those as the monthly price or promise a promotion. Check the current price and billing period before
subscribing. Flaghand's access status above was checked on October 26, 2026.
## Bringing your drafts
If you can save the posts you want to keep as CSV or JSON, Flaghand's
[migration recipe](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents#migrate-from-another-scheduler) describes its generic format, with an X thread
kept as one draft. Import creates drafts, with old times as proposed times: it doesn't approve or schedule them, and it
doesn't stop Tweet Hunter's queue. This is a file-based recipe, not a one-click Tweet Hunter migration.
## Try Flaghand
The [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) covers the API and MCP server.
[How to let an AI agent post on social media safely](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely) has nine checks to run on
any tool, this one included. [Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-typefully.md
# Flaghand vs Typefully for posting with AI agents
Typefully and Flaghand both let an AI agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor or your own) draft your posts through
an API or an MCP server. The difference that matters is who can make a post go live. In Typefully, that depends on whose
access the agent was given. In Flaghand, an agent's credential never can.
Every Typefully fact here comes from Typefully's own [pricing page](https://typefully.com/pricing),
[API reference](https://typefully.com/docs/api) and
[help center](https://support.typefully.com/en/articles/13128440-typefully-mcp-server), read on October 25, 2026. Prices
and features change, so check those pages before you choose.
## The short answer
- **Choose Typefully** for a free plan, more networks, X analytics, AI writing help or a team that writes together.
- **Choose Flaghand** if your agent writes the posts and you want a rule the server enforces: nothing goes out until you
approve the exact post with your passkey.
## Where Typefully is better
- **It has a free plan.** Free costs $0 and includes agents, the API and MCP, with 1 social set, 1 user, 10 posts a
month and limited media uploads. Flaghand has no free plan, and it's in early access: sign-up isn't open yet.
- **More networks.** Typefully publishes to X, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon and Substack. Flaghand posts to X
and LinkedIn personal profiles.
- **More for writers and teams.** An AI writing assistant, X analytics from the Creator plan up, and on Business,
collaborative writing, comments, Slack notifications, and teams with roles and permissions.
- **More integrations.** Zapier and Notion integrations. Both tools have an API, an MCP server that signs in by OAuth
(Typefully's is at `https://mcp.typefully.com/mcp`), a skill for coding agents and webhooks.
## Who can publish
Typefully's API keys "inherit the same permissions as the user who created them". Creating a draft needs WRITE access.
Scheduling or publishing needs PUBLISH access, and `"publish_at": "now"` publishes at once. Its MCP server can "create,
edit, schedule, and manage drafts", and one of Typefully's own example prompts is "Schedule this post for tomorrow at
9am". Free and Creator have one user, so the key or MCP connection you give an agent can schedule and publish.
Typefully's Business plan has a Write role that can create and edit drafts but not schedule or publish them. Since keys
inherit their creator's access, a key made by a separate Write-role user can't publish. With that access an agent can
also plan a post: `plan_at` puts it on the calendar, where it "never auto-publishes until confirmed".
Flaghand doesn't depend on whose key it is. No API token scope can approve, schedule or post, on any plan. Those routes
refuse every token and accept only an owner of the workspace, signed in with a passkey. Apps that connect to Flaghand's MCP
server by OAuth, such as Claude and ChatGPT, get a draft-only token: `read`, `drafts`, `media` and `request-approval`.
## What you approve
In Typefully, whoever has publish access schedules the post: a person, or an agent using their key. On a team, only
users with publish access can edit a post once it's scheduled.
In Flaghand, the agent checks its drafts and asks you to approve them. Approving freezes each post into a snapshot: the
account, the time, the text, every media file and its alt text, and the exact request that will be sent. Flaghand hashes
it with SHA-256 and records your passkey signature over the hash. Changing the text, media, account or time needs a new
approval, and the scheduler checks the signed snapshot again right before posting.
Both show a preview before anything is scheduled. Typefully promises "pixel-perfect previews". Flaghand draws X and
LinkedIn posts to match the real sites, and its check flags anything that wouldn't post exactly as previewed.
## After it posts
Flaghand reads each X post back and compares it with what you approved: normalized text, author, hidden reply mentions,
media count, available alt text, reply chain and quote. It doesn't verify link destinations or the media files
themselves, and LinkedIn posts aren't read back. Typefully's API reference, read on October 25, 2026, describes no
comparison like this.
## Side by side
| | Typefully | Flaghand |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes: 1 social set, 10 posts a month, with the API and MCP | No |
| Paid plans | Creator $99 a year (annual billing only); Business $20 a month per social set, or $18 billed yearly | Early access; sign-up isn't open yet |
| Networks | X, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, Substack | X and LinkedIn personal profiles |
| Agent access | API, MCP (OAuth or API key), Agent Skills, webhooks, Zapier | API, MCP (OAuth or API token), agent skill, webhooks |
| Can the agent's credential publish? | Yes, if its user can publish. On Free and Creator, the only user can | No, on any plan |
| Approval | A user with publish access schedules the post | Your passkey signature over the exact post |
| Check after posting | Not described in the API reference | X: text, mentions, media count, alt text, thread and quote. LinkedIn: none |
## Moving your drafts over
Flaghand's [migration recipe](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents#migrate-from-another-scheduler) reads Typefully's API format: the
full drafts, not the queue list's previews, with their media. An agent with read access to Typefully can read your
queued drafts and create them in Flaghand. From a saved file, `flaghand import FILE --dry-run` shows what it would
create, and the same command without `--dry-run` creates it (the CLI isn't on npm yet). Either way it only creates
drafts: nothing is approved or scheduled, Typefully's times come over as proposed times, and Typefully keeps posting its
queue until you change it there.
## Try Flaghand
The [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) covers the API and the MCP server.
[How to let an AI agent post on social media safely](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely) has nine checks to run on
any tool, this one included. [Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-upload-post.md
# Flaghand vs Upload-Post for n8n, Make and AI agents
Upload-Post and Flaghand both let an n8n workflow, a Make scenario or an AI agent send social posts through an API or
an MCP server. They answer one question differently: can the automation publish by itself? With Upload-Post, a request
made with your API key publishes now, at a set time or in the next queue slot. With Flaghand, the automation drafts and
asks, and the post goes out only after the workspace owner approves that exact post with a passkey.
Every Upload-Post fact here was checked on October 26, 2026 on its own
[pricing section](https://www.upload-post.com/#pricing), [full LLM guide](https://www.upload-post.com/llms-full.txt),
[authentication](https://docs.upload-post.com/guides/authentication),
[MCP server](https://docs.upload-post.com/guides/mcp-server-integration),
[text posts](https://docs.upload-post.com/api/upload-text), [webhooks](https://docs.upload-post.com/api/webhooks),
[OpenAI Agents SDK](https://docs.upload-post.com/guides/openai-agents-sdk) and
[Vercel AI SDK](https://docs.upload-post.com/guides/vercel-ai-sdk) docs, and its
[n8n](https://www.upload-post.com/n8n-integration-guide) and [Make](https://docs.upload-post.com/guides/make-integration)
guides. Prices and features change; check those pages before you choose.
## The short answer
- **Choose Upload-Post** if you post to Instagram, TikTok, YouTube or any of its other networks, want a free plan to
start, are building posting into your own product, or want a workflow to publish without anyone approving each post.
- **Choose Flaghand** if your workflow or agent writes for a person who must approve exactly what goes out, and you
want the server, not the agent's instructions, to enforce that.
## Where Upload-Post is better
- **Twenty-two platforms.** It posts to TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, X, Threads, Pinterest, Reddit,
Bluesky, Google Business Profile, Discord, Telegram, Slack, Mastodon, Nostr, Lemmy, Dev.to, Hashnode, WordPress, Whop
and Listmonk, and its LinkedIn posting covers personal profiles and company pages. Flaghand posts to X and LinkedIn
personal profiles; its TikTok posting is subject to TikTok's review.
- **A free plan.** Ten uploads a month on two profiles, with no credit card, though without TikTok. Paid plans have
unlimited uploads.
- **Ready-made integrations.** Its own node ships with current versions of n8n, and it has Make, Zapier and Airtable
guides, Python and JavaScript SDKs and a command line tool. Flaghand has no node or module of its own: you use n8n's
HTTP Request, Make's HTTP module or Zapier's Webhooks, with the exact requests in
[Flaghand from n8n, Make, Zapier and GitHub Actions](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/automations).
- **Built for other people's accounts.** Profiles group one client's accounts, a hosted connect page lets your users
link their own, and white-label is included from the Professional plan.
- **More than posting.** Analytics, comments and DMs through the API and MCP, a video-processing API that adapts files
to each network, and an AI tool that writes titles and hashtags for short videos. Flaghand's X read-back check isn't
an analytics or inbox product.
## Where Flaghand is better
- **The approval is the server's rule.** No API token can approve, schedule or post, so a leaked token, a looping
workflow or a confused agent can't publish on its own.
- **You approve what will actually post.** The desk draws each post as X and LinkedIn show it, the check flags
anything that wouldn't post as previewed, and the approval covers that exact snapshot.
- **Links stay in X posts.** Upload-Post removes every URL from X posts by default, because X charges more for a post
with a link; keeping links takes its X links add-on. You don't buy X credits to post through Flaghand, which prepays
X's API ([what X charges for links](/docs/guides/x-api-pricing)).
- **One call per plan.** A workflow drafts, checks and asks for approval in one request, retried safely with an
`Idempotency-Key`, and signed notifications tell it what the owner decided.
## Pricing and access
Upload-Post's paid plans, billed monthly, are Basic at $24 a month for 5 profiles, Professional at $50 for 25,
Advanced at $147 for 75 and Business at $438 for 225. Billed annually they work out to $16, $33, $118 and $350 a month
($192, $400, $1,411 and $4,205 a year). A profile is one person or client, with one account per network, so 5 profiles
can hold 5 TikTok and 5 Instagram accounts. Seats grow from one on Basic to ten on Business, and extra profiles are
sold as add-ons.
The X links add-on costs $19 a month and allows up to 50 posts with links a month. The free plan needs no credit card,
and the pricing section shows a 15-day money-back guarantee.
Flaghand is in early access and public sign-up isn't open yet. This guide doesn't quote a Flaghand price; use
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule) for its current entry point.
## What you integrate
Upload-Post's API at `https://api.upload-post.com` takes an `Authorization: Apikey` header and multipart form
requests: `/api/upload` for video, `/api/upload_photos` for photos and `/api/upload_text` for text, each with a profile
and one or more `platform[]` values. Leave out `scheduled_date` and it publishes now; set it, or `add_to_queue`, to
schedule. Its hosted MCP server at `https://mcp.upload-post.com/mcp` accepts the same API key or an OAuth sign-in from
Claude.ai and ChatGPT. Webhooks report finished uploads and account connection changes.
Flaghand's [live OpenAPI spec](https://app.flaghand.com/api/v1/openapi.json) describes the same work in a different order:
1. From n8n or Make, one `createPost` request drafts, checks and asks for approval, and returns the owner's
`approval_url`, or each draft's problems and fixes. See the exact [n8n](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/automations#n8n-http-request)
and [Make](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/automations#make-http) requests.
2. An agent can take the steps one at a time: upload media, `createDraft`, `checkDraft`, then `requestApproval` with
the draft ID and revision. A proposed `post_at` time doesn't schedule anything, and a passing check isn't an
approval.
3. Register a [signed event receiver](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/automations#register-signed-event-notifications) to hear when
the owner decides or a job finishes, then read the jobs and use `verifyJob` for the live check.
Agents connect to Flaghand's remote MCP server with a workspace token or OAuth; the
[agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) has the setup for each client.
## Who approves each post
Upload-Post's API key publishes, and the pages above don't describe a key that can draft without publishing. Its agent
guides offer approval in the agent framework instead: `require_approval: "always"` in the OpenAI Agents SDK, or
`needsApproval: true` in its Vercel AI SDK tools, has the framework ask a person before each publishing call. That
check runs in your agent, so any other holder of the same key can still publish. A read-only calendar link lets a
client look over scheduled posts, but they can't edit, delete or reschedule them there. TikTok's draft mode sends a
post to the account's TikTok drafts to finish in the app, for that network only.
Flaghand also uses a Bearer token, so the difference isn't the authentication header but what the credential can do.
No API token scope can approve, schedule or post. Flaghand's OAuth MCP connectors receive `read`, `drafts`, `media` and
`request-approval`, not a publishing permission. The owner connects each social account and approves in Flaghand; an
agent or workflow can't do either on their behalf.
## What you approve
Flaghand freezes the account, time, text, media, alt text and outgoing request into a snapshot. It hashes that snapshot
with SHA-256 and records your passkey signature over the hash. Changing the posting content, account or time needs a
new approval, and the scheduler checks the signed snapshot again just before posting. That required step is friction
if you want a fully unattended pipeline; it's the point if a person's name is on every post.
## After it posts
Flaghand reads each X post back and compares normalized text, author, hidden reply mentions, media count, available
alt text, reply chain and quote with the approval. It doesn't verify link destinations or media-file identity, and it
has no LinkedIn read-back. Upload-Post reports each upload's status and history, sends webhooks, and offers analytics
across networks. Neither a success response nor this limited comparison proves every detail of a post looks right.
## TikTok slideshows
Flaghand's [slideshow API](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/slideshows) lets an agent lay out photos and text as slides. One renderer
draws it for the preview you approve and for the images TikTok receives, so approval covers the render hash.
[Flaghand and TikTok](/tiktok) explains what posting is available while TikTok reviews Flaghand. Upload-Post posts
TikTok videos, photo carousels and slideshows today, directly or as drafts.
## Side by side
| | Upload-Post | Flaghand |
|---|---|---|
| Core fit | A posting API for many networks, apps and agencies | A publishing desk for a person and their agents |
| Networks | Twenty-two platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn pages | X and LinkedIn personal profiles; TikTok subject to review |
| n8n and Make | Its own n8n node; Make, Zapier and Airtable guides | n8n HTTP Request, Make HTTP module, Zapier Webhooks |
| API and MCP | REST with an `Apikey` header; hosted MCP with the key or OAuth | REST with a Bearer workspace token; remote MCP with the token or OAuth |
| Can that credential publish? | Yes | No API token can approve, schedule or post |
| Who approves each post | Optional approval in your agent framework | The owner's passkey over the exact snapshot |
| Links on X | Removed unless you buy the X links add-on | Kept as approved |
| After publication | Status, history, webhooks and analytics | Limited X snapshot read-back; none on LinkedIn |
| Price | Free plan; paid from $24 a month, or $16 billed annually | Early access; public sign-up not open yet |
## Try Flaghand
Read [Flaghand from n8n, Make, Zapier and GitHub Actions](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/automations) for copyable workflow requests,
the [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) for the API and MCP contract, and
[How to let an AI agent post safely](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely) for checks to apply to any integration.
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/formatting-a-linkedin-post.md
# Formatting a LinkedIn post
Start with plain text, short paragraphs and a clear first sentence. A line break is real text. A bold-looking letter
from a formatter is a different Unicode character, not a font setting. And where “see more” cuts a post depends on
its rendered lines, not a fixed number of characters.
**Checked on October 26, 2026** against LinkedIn's own help pages, linked below. Its article editor has formatting
controls that ordinary feed posts don't share. LinkedIn's editorial advice supplies the spacing and hashtag
recommendations; Unicode's specification explains the styled letters. The help pages don't specify a pixel-level
feed cut or how search normalizes those letters. The cut described here is Flaghand's measured web-feed model, not a
published LinkedIn guarantee.
Try the free [LinkedIn text formatter](/linkedin-text-formatter), [character counter](/linkedin-character-counter)
and [LinkedIn post previewer](/linkedin-post-preview). They work without an account; the text stays in your browser.
## Line breaks and spacing
Press Enter to start a new line. Leave an empty line between paragraphs when you want a visible gap. A sentence
wrapping because it reaches the edge is not a saved line break: it can wrap somewhere else on a phone.
```text
We shipped a smaller, faster export today.
Three things changed:
• Less waiting
• Clearer file names
• One folder to keep
Here is what we learned from the first version.
```
LinkedIn's own [feed-writing guidance](https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/talent-acquisition/how-to-write-engaging-post-in-linkedin-feed)
recommends short paragraphs, separate lines for distinct ideas and white space for scanning. That's writing advice,
not an algorithm trick. One blank line is a useful starting point, not a platform rule. Stacks of empty lines use up
the opening preview; don't add invisible “blank” characters to force spacing.
LinkedIn's [sharing help](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a525301) allows up to **3,000 characters** in a
post. Spaces and line breaks use that budget too. Flaghand counts UTF-16 code units, matching its desk's post check:
a plain Latin letter is 1, most emoji and the formatter's styled letters are 2. LinkedIn's help gives the limit, not
that counting algorithm. Use the [LinkedIn counter](/linkedin-character-counter) after pasting the final text, rather
than trusting a word count.
## Bold and italic: different letters, not rich text
For an ordinary feed post, `**bold**`, `*italic*` and HTML such as `bold` aren't formatting instructions. Don't
copy Markdown into LinkedIn expecting the asterisks to disappear. LinkedIn's developer
[text format](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/little-text-format?view=li-lms-2026-10)
lists plain text, mentions and hashtags, not Markdown bold or italic elements.
LinkedIn's [article-editor help](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a522427/creating-articles-on-linkedin)
does document bold, italic, lists and hyperlinks. That is **Write article**, not **Start a post**. Don't apply the
article instructions to a feed post.
A formatter makes `News` look like `𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀` by replacing letters with Unicode mathematical letters. They survive a
plain-text paste because the characters themselves changed. The [free formatter](/linkedin-text-formatter) offers
bold, italic, bold italic and monospace, plus a **Plain** action to undo them. Its **From Markdown** action converts
common Markdown styling before you copy; LinkedIn itself isn't doing that conversion.
### Why screen readers and search can read styled letters poorly
Unicode encodes these [mathematical alphabets](https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode17.0.0/core-spec/chapter-22/)
as distinct characters for mathematical meaning, not decorative styling of prose. A screen reader's handling depends
on its software, voice and settings: it may announce a mathematical character name, spell letters separately or fail
to speak them usefully. Looking bold is not the same as an accessible heading or emphasis.
The same distinction matters to search and copy-and-find: `News` and `𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀` are different strings. A search system
must normalize the mathematical letters to match a plain-letter query. LinkedIn's help doesn't say whether every
search surface does that, so don't assume either reliable matching or that styled text is completely unsearchable.
This isn't evidence of a ranking penalty.
Keep names, keywords, links, hashtags and essential meaning in plain letters. For the most readable version, use
spacing and wording instead of styled alphabets. If you choose styled emphasis, keep the ordinary wording elsewhere
too; never make it the only way someone can understand the post.
## Lists: put the marker in the text
Use `• ` or `- ` for bullets, or `1. `, `2. ` and so on for an ordered list, with each item on a new line. These are
plain-text markers, not an article editor's structured list. A long item still wraps to the width of the feed.
The formatter's bullet and numbered list actions insert those markers for you. LinkedIn's developer
[text-format example](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/little-text-format?view=li-lms-2026-10)
likewise represents bullet points as characters separated by newlines; its escape characters are API syntax, not
extra backslashes to paste into the post box. For a genuinely formatted article list, use the article editor instead.
## Hashtags: ordinary words, joined up
Write a relevant hashtag as one word, for example `#ProductDesign`, not `#Product Design`. Keep it in plain letters.
LinkedIn's [search help](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a523136/search-on-linkedin?lang=en) says you can
search a hashtag by entering it in the search bar, even though hashtags aren't offered as suggested searches.
LinkedIn's [feed-writing guidance](https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/talent-acquisition/how-to-write-engaging-post-in-linkedin-feed)
says to capitalize the first letter of each word for readability and screen-reader accessibility. Hashtags can sit
in the sentence or at the end. Use them when they explain the topic, not as a promise of extra reach. This guide
doesn't prescribe a magic count or promise a dedicated hashtag feed.
## Mentions: select the account, don't just type a name
In LinkedIn's own composer, type `@` and begin the person's name, then select the right person from the suggestions.
The [mention help page](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a525082/mention-people-in-your-posts) makes that
selection part of the process. It also says members can turn mentions off and LinkedIn may restrict mentions of
non-connections. A pasted `@Name` should not be treated as proof of a linked mention or a notification.
A preview is not a connection to the account. In Flaghand's desk, company-page tags need the correct organization
identity, not just visible text; tagging people isn't supported. Its
[draft and media documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/drafts-and-media) explains that boundary. Typing `@[Name]` in a free
preview doesn't create a real LinkedIn mention.
## Links and their cards
Paste the complete URL. In LinkedIn's composer, wait for its preview before deciding whether the card is the one you
want. LinkedIn's [link-sharing help](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a525301) says a preview image can
take a few seconds and that you can share the link even when an image doesn't appear.
The card's title, description and image come from the destination page's oEmbed or Open Graph metadata, not from a
bold heading you write above the link. LinkedIn's
[URL troubleshooting help](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a525063/issues-sharing-urls-troubleshooting?lang=en)
explains missing or stale previews and tells developers to allow 48 hours after metadata changes for its cache to
update. It also says URLs with spaces can't be shared; use a properly encoded URL.
An inline clickable URL and a preview card are different things. Don't expect `[read this](https://example.com)` to
turn into an article-style labeled hyperlink in a feed post. Check the actual destination and the card separately.
A free text preview isn't a fetch of that site's metadata; when using Flaghand's desk, save and review the actual
link card as part of the draft before requesting approval.
## Where “see more” cuts at 552 px
There isn't a universal “first 140 characters” or “first 210 characters” rule. Wide letters, narrow letters, line
breaks, links and the available width all change what fits. The post limit and the collapsed preview are different
checks: a valid 3,000-character post can hide most of its text in the feed.
Flaghand's LinkedIn renderer models the **552 px desktop card** with a **three-line collapsed text area** and a
20 px line height. After layout, it measures the words on those lines. If text overflows:
- It removes empty lines at the end of the visible preview. If the third line is a paragraph break, the preview can
show only two lines; it doesn't pull a later paragraph up into that space.
- It leaves room for the **“… more”** button after the last whole word that fits on the last visible line. That
button can hide words that would otherwise fit across the full width.
- Expanding the post reveals the remaining text. A post that fits needs no button.
These are the measured rules in Flaghand's `public/li.js` (`placeMore`), with the 552 px card in `public/li.css`,
checked for this guide on October 26, 2026. They aren't rules stated in LinkedIn Help, and LinkedIn can change its UI.
The phone preview uses a 390 px card, so it can cut earlier. Don't choose an opening by character count alone.
Paste your final text into the [LinkedIn previewer](/linkedin-post-preview), check desktop and phone, then expand it.
The [LinkedIn counter](/linkedin-character-counter) also marks the hidden portion using that same renderer. For a
version of the post on X, use the [X counter](/x-character-counter): its weighted count is different.
## A final check
Read the opening without expanding it. Check the paragraph gaps and lists on a phone. Keep important words in plain
letters, select real mentions in the posting tool, and inspect every link and its card. A text formatter makes a
draft; it doesn't publish it or establish that a mention or card has been checked on LinkedIn.
If an agent helps write it in Flaghand, the agent drafts, checks and requests approval. Only the owner approves the
exact snapshot with their passkey in the desk. No agent token can approve, schedule or post.
## Sources and what was checked
All checked on October 26, 2026.
- LinkedIn Help: [share articles or links](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a525301) — the 3,000-character
limit, link entry and preview images.
- LinkedIn Help: [write and publish articles](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a522427/creating-articles-on-linkedin)
— formatting controls belong to the article editor.
- LinkedIn Help: [mention people](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a525082/mention-people-in-your-posts)
— selecting the member and mention restrictions.
- LinkedIn Help: [search on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a523136/search-on-linkedin?lang=en)
— manual hashtag searches, not a promise of reach.
- LinkedIn Help: [troubleshoot shared URLs](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a525063/issues-sharing-urls-troubleshooting?lang=en)
— metadata, cache refresh and spaces in URLs.
- LinkedIn's [feed-writing guidance](https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/talent-acquisition/how-to-write-engaging-post-in-linkedin-feed)
— paragraph spacing and capitalized hashtag words; editorial advice, not a Help Center layout specification.
- LinkedIn's [little Text Format](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/little-text-format?view=li-lms-2026-10)
— supported text elements and newline-separated bullet example; developer documentation, not Markdown support.
- Unicode's [mathematical symbols specification, sections 22.2.2–22.2.3](https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode17.0.0/core-spec/chapter-22/)
— distinct mathematical alphabets and compatibility mappings. The accessibility warning is not a claim that every
screen reader fails; the search warning is not a measured LinkedIn ranking result.
- Flaghand's shared LinkedIn renderer and text counter — the measured 552 px cut, phone comparison and UTF-16 count.
LinkedIn's help pages don't publish those implementation details.
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/how-to-add-alt-text-x-linkedin.md
# How to add alt text to images on X and LinkedIn
On **X**, attach a photo, select **+Alt** in the mobile app or **Add description** on the web, write the description
and select **Done**. On **LinkedIn**, upload the image, select **Alt.text** on desktop or **ALT** on mobile, write the
description and select **Save** or **Done**. Do this for each image before publishing.
Alt text describes the image to someone who cannot see it. It is separate from the post's visible caption, and a
screen reader can read it alongside the post. You don't need a scheduling tool to add it in either app.
The networks' own help pages and API documentation were **checked on October 26, 2026**. X Help was checked through
its search-indexed text because direct access returned 403; X's API reference and LinkedIn's help and API docs were
read directly. This is a documentation check, not a live posting test. Sources are linked beside the claims below.
## Alt-text character limits: app and API are different contracts
| Network and route | Documented maximum per image | Where the number comes from |
|---|---|---|
| X app and web | 1,000 characters | X's image-description help |
| X API v2 | 1,000 characters | `metadata.alt_text.text` in the media metadata reference |
| LinkedIn app and web | No numeric maximum stated in the cited help page | Use the composer's own validation; the API number below is not proof of the app's limit |
| LinkedIn API | 4,086 characters | LinkedIn's Images and MultiImage API docs; they recommend fewer than 120 characters |
A maximum is not a target. Use enough words to convey what matters, not every character the field accepts. LinkedIn's
**fewer-than-120 recommendation is guidance, not its 4,086-character API maximum**. A third-party tool may validate a
different length, so check the route you actually use.
## Why image descriptions matter
A screenshot, chart or photo can carry the main point of a post. Without a useful description, someone using a screen
reader may receive the caption but miss the evidence or instructions inside the image. LinkedIn's
[accessibility help](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a522523) explicitly describes alt text as a way for
screen-reader users to understand images. X's
[image-description help](https://help.x.com/en/using-x/picture-descriptions) explains how to make photos accessible.
Write for that person, not for a search ranking. Alt text is not a place for promotional copy, keyword stuffing or a
second unrelated caption. It does not replace captions for speech in a video or make a PDF document accessible.
## Add alt text on X: iPhone, Android and web
X's [instructions for image descriptions](https://help.x.com/en/using-x/picture-descriptions) give these routes:
1. Start a post and attach a photo.
2. On **iPhone or Android**, tap **+Alt** on the image. On **x.com**, click **Add description** below the image.
3. Describe the image, using up to **1,000 characters**, then select **Done**.
4. Repeat for every attached image. Reopen a description to check or edit it before posting.
5. Review the complete post and publish when you are ready.
X also calls the control **+ALT** in its
[short image-description guide](https://help.x.com/en/using-x/add-image-descriptions). A described image has an **ALT**
badge that readers can select to read the description. The description is attached to the image, not inserted into
the post's text. These are instructions for photos, not a video-captioning workflow.
## Add alt text on LinkedIn: desktop and mobile
LinkedIn's [own alt-text help](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a522523) documents the following steps:
1. Start a post and upload your image.
2. On **desktop**, click **Alt.text** below the image. In the **mobile app**, tap **ALT** below the image.
3. Enter the description. Select **Save** on desktop or **Done** on mobile.
4. Repeat for each image, review the post, then publish when ready.
LinkedIn can generate a description if you don't supply one. Its help says desktop uploaders receive a notification
when this happens, while mobile uploaders do not. That is not a guarantee that an automatic description captures your
chart's conclusion, the text in a screenshot or why this particular photo matters. Write and review your own when that
context is important.
The cited help page gives **no numeric app limit**. LinkedIn's API documents **4,086 characters**, but it would be
misleading to promise that the native composer accepts that many based only on the API. Check descriptions before
publishing rather than relying on a later edit; this guide does not establish an after-publication editing workflow.
## Write a description that supplies the missing information
X's [writing guidance](https://help.x.com/en/using-x/write-image-descriptions) recommends clear, objective descriptions
and including relevant text from the image. Don't infer someone's emotions, identity or intent from their appearance.
If an image contains too much text to fit, summarize the important part and put a link to the original document in the
post rather than burying it in alt text. Avoid needlessly repeating information the post already provides.
For example, for a synthetic bar chart, **“Bar chart: 24 drafts in September and 36 in October, a 50% increase”** conveys
more than “Chart of drafts.” For a screenshot, describe the relevant control or result and transcribe the words needed
to understand it. For multiple images, give each its own description; don't copy the same generic sentence onto all of
them. Use extra detail when it changes the meaning, not simply because there is room.
## X API: write media metadata before attaching the image
For an integration you control, upload the image first and retain its media ID. The current
[X media metadata endpoint](https://docs.x.com/x-api/media/create-media-metadata) is **`POST https://api.x.com/2/media/metadata`**.
Its request body uses **`id`**, not `media_id`, and nests the description under **`metadata.alt_text.text`**:
```json
{
"id": "1234567890123456789",
"metadata": {
"alt_text": {
"text": "Bar chart: 24 drafts in September and 36 in October, a 50% increase."
}
}
}
```
This is an illustrative metadata body with a placeholder ID, not a runnable posting recipe. The text maximum is
**1,000 characters**. Use authorized user-context credentials; the OAuth 2.0 route requires `media.write`. Send metadata
before creating the post that attaches that media ID. Putting `alt_text` in the post's visible `text` is not the same
operation, and an upload's success alone does not establish that the description was saved. Check the metadata
response and don't silently discard a failure in your own integration.
These are the current **v2** fields. Don't mix them with an older v1.1 media-metadata example that uses a different
endpoint or body. For the surrounding upload and post fields, see the
[X threads, polls and media guide](/docs/guides/x-api-threads-polls-media).
## LinkedIn API: put altText on each post image
Upload the image through the Images API to obtain an image URN. LinkedIn's
[Images API example](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/images-api?view=li-lms-2026-10)
then creates a post through **`POST /rest/posts`**, with the description in **`content.media.altText`** and the image
URN in **`content.media.id`**. Here is just the content fragment, not a complete publish request:
```json
{
"content": {
"media": {
"id": "urn:li:image:EXAMPLE",
"altText": "Bar chart: 24 drafts in September and 36 in October, a 50% increase."
}
}
}
```
For multiple images, the
[MultiImage API](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/multiimage-post-api?view=li-lms-2026-10)
puts each image URN and description in **`content.multiImage.images[].id`** and **`content.multiImage.images[].altText`**.
The documented maximum is **4,086 characters** and the recommendation is **fewer than 120**. Both references here use
LinkedIn API version **202610**. Alt text belongs in these post-content fields; a filename, a visible `commentary`
caption or an upload initialization is not a substitute.
A complete integration also needs member consent, the right publishing permission and the version headers. Those
requirements are separate from naming the field correctly. See the
[LinkedIn personal-profile API guide](/docs/guides/linkedin-api-personal-profile) for the permission boundaries.
## One other option: prepare image descriptions in Flaghand
If an AI agent prepares your posts, **Flaghand is one option** for carrying alt text with the draft rather than asking
you to retype it in each app. Its [drafts and media reference](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/drafts-and-media) documents a library
image's default **`alt`** and a draft's per-image **`media[].alt`** override. If the draft omits that override, the library
description is copied into the draft. The implemented checks enforce X's 1,000-character and LinkedIn's 4,086-character
image limits; these are platform constraints, not writing targets.
Agents can upload, draft, check and request approval through the API or MCP. **Agent tokens cannot approve, schedule
or publish.** The owner reviews the exact snapshot, including the image descriptions, and approves with a passkey.
LinkedIn support is for personal profiles, not company Page publishing. LinkedIn live post read-back is unavailable
with Flaghand's current permissions, so a returned post link is not a verified match of the live image description.
The [agent reference](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) explains that boundary.
**Public sign-up is not open yet.** [Join the Flaghand waitlist](/schedule) if this workflow fits. For a photo you are
posting yourself today, the native X or LinkedIn controls above are the simpler option.
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/how-to-cross-post-x-linkedin-tiktok.md
# How to cross-post to X, LinkedIn and TikTok
Reuse the idea, not necessarily the post. To cross-post to LinkedIn and Twitter (now X), make a separate version for
each network: a short X post or thread, a LinkedIn post with enough context to stand alone, and, for TikTok, a video
or photo story with its own caption. A scheduler can deliver those versions; it can't make a pasted handle, link
card or crop correct everywhere.
**Checked on October 26, 2026** against the networks' own help and developer pages and the tools' own documentation,
linked below. Native upload rules, API rules and a scheduling tool's restrictions are not interchangeable. This is
a documentation check, not a test of reach or a real-account publishing walkthrough.
## What changes per network
| Check | X (Twitter) | LinkedIn | TikTok |
|---|---|---|---|
| Text length | A standard post has 280 weighted characters; eligible paid accounts have longer posts. A thread is several posts, not one long caption. | A feed post has up to 3,000 characters. That is the posting limit, not how much the collapsed feed shows. | Write a caption for the media, not a LinkedIn article pasted beneath it. Native and API fields have different limits; check the publishing route. |
| Links and cards | A URL uses 23 characters through t.co, regardless of its original length. Inspect any card that appears. | Paste the URL and wait for the preview. A clickable link and a preview card are different things. | Don't assume a caption URL becomes a clickable article card. Use a supported profile-link destination where the account is eligible. |
| Hashtags | Hashtags categorize searchable topics; spaces and punctuation break them. | Relevant topic words can be hashtags; keep them readable and in plain letters. | Choose tags relevant to this video or photo story, not a copied block from another network. |
| Mentions | Use the person's actual X @username. | Select the correct person or Page identity; pasted @text isn't proof of a linked mention. | Find the actual TikTok account; the same handle on X can belong to somebody else. |
| Media | Up to four photos; standard-account video limits are much smaller than LinkedIn's. | Up to 20 photos, or a native video; a PDF document is another format, not an X thread. | Build a video or photo post. Text alone isn't a substitute for the visual story. |
### Length: count each final version
X's [posting help](https://help.x.com/en/using-x/how-to-post) gives the standard **280-character** limit. Longer posts
are a separate paid feature: X's [post-types help](https://help.x.com/en/using-x/types-of-posts) lists up to 25,000
characters, while some general help text still mentions 4,000. Don't assume a subscription feature is available in
every third-party composer. X's [link help](https://help.x.com/en/using-twitter/how-to-tweet-a-link.html) says a URL
counts as **23 characters**; simply counting the visible letters will give the wrong answer.
LinkedIn's [sharing help](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a525301) gives **3,000 characters**. The feed
still hides long text behind “see more,” and line breaks change what fits. Put the point before the expansion, not
beneath a copied X thread's numbering. Use the free [X counter](/x-character-counter),
[LinkedIn counter](/linkedin-character-counter) and [LinkedIn previewer](/linkedin-post-preview) on the final versions.
These are Flaghand's own counters/previews; the help pages don't publish their counting or pixel-layout algorithms.
TikTok's [video Direct Post API](https://developers.tiktok.com/docs/en/content-posting-api-reference-direct-post)
allows **2,200 “UTF-16 runes”** in its caption field, `post_info.title`. Its
[photo-post API](https://developers.tiktok.com/docs/en/content-posting-api-reference-photo-post) has a separate
**90-unit title** and **4,000-unit description**, using the same documented UTF-16 terminology. These aren't byte
counts or necessarily visible-letter counts. The official help checked here didn't establish a numeric native-app
caption allowance: don't present the API limits as a universal TikTok composer limit.
### Links: change the call to action, not just the URL
A link that works in X or LinkedIn doesn't make the same call to action useful on TikTok. “Read the link below” is
poor copy when that surface doesn't provide the same clickable destination. TikTok's
[profile-link help](https://support.tiktok.com/en/getting-started/setting-up-your-profile/linking-another-social-media-account)
sets website-link eligibility at **1,000 followers or a Registered Business Account**. Don't broaden that to every
business account or promise everyone a “link in bio.” The help checked here documents the profile field, not a
universal clickable-caption-URL feature.
On LinkedIn, [link-sharing help](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a525301) says to wait for the preview
image and allows posting the link even if one doesn't load. Its
[URL troubleshooting help](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a525063/issues-sharing-urls-troubleshooting?lang=en)
says card titles, descriptions and images come from the destination's oEmbed or Open Graph metadata. Metadata
changes can take two days to refresh. Check the card separately on each network; copying your opening sentence
doesn't change the site's metadata.
Keep the essential result in the post itself, then give that network's readers an appropriate next step. There is
no evidence here for a universal “external links kill reach” rule or a magic first-comment workaround.
### Hashtags and mentions: rebuild them
X's [hashtag help](https://help.x.com/en/using-x/how-to-use-hashtags) recommends no more than two hashtags, but that's
advice, not a posting limit. LinkedIn's own
[feed-writing advice](https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/talent-acquisition/how-to-write-engaging-post-in-linkedin-feed)
suggests a few relevant hashtags and capitalizing each word for readability. Neither is evidence that the same
bundle of tags improves performance on TikTok. Keep topic tags intentional, not an automatic footer.
A mention is an identity, not portable text. X's
[mention help](https://help.x.com/en/using-x/mentions-and-replies) describes @usernames. LinkedIn's
[mention help](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a525082/mention-people-in-your-posts) asks you to choose
the correct profile from suggestions; people can disable mentions. Re-select accounts on the destination network,
and check whether your tool supports that kind of tag. A scheduler may support company tags but not people tags.
If it can't make the intended mention, use the person's plain name rather than silently tagging someone else.
TikTok's [mention help](https://support.tiktok.com/en/using-tiktok/messaging-and-notifications/mentions-on-tiktok)
similarly describes searching or selecting the person with **@ Mention**, subject to their mention settings. Its
Direct Post API recognizes `#` hashtags and `@` mentions in the caption, separated by spaces or newlines. That isn't
a guarantee that a handle copied from a different service identifies the right account.
## Media and video: keep a master, export for each destination
Start from an original file you have rights to reuse, not a downloaded social post. Keep an editable master, then
check the export against both the network and the route your tool uses. A native app accepting a large file doesn't
mean a third-party API accepts it.
- **X photos:** [X Help](https://help.x.com/en/using-x/posting-gifs-and-pictures) supports up to **four photos**, up to
**5 MB each**, and GIF, JPEG and PNG. An animated GIF has separate upload rules; don't treat it as a still photo.
- **X video:** [X video help](https://help.x.com/en/using-x/x-videos) lists **140 seconds and 512 MB** for accounts
without the eligible paid subscription. Paid-account allowances differ. A video that fits LinkedIn can still be
too long for a standard X account.
- **LinkedIn photos:** [LinkedIn Help](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a527229/share-photos-or-videos)
allows up to **20 photos**, with a **5 MB upload limit** and a suggested **1080 px width**. It lists ratios from
**3:1 to 4:5** and describes centered cropping outside the permitted ratio. Inspect a multi-photo layout instead
of assuming it looks like X's four-image grid.
- **LinkedIn video:** its [native video help](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a7486279) lists **75 KB to
5 GB**, up to **15 minutes**, **256 × 144 to 4096 × 2304**, **10–60 fps** and aspect ratios **1:2.4 to 2.4:1**.
The minimum duration is **3 seconds on desktop or 2 seconds in the mobile app**. These are organic native-sharing
rules, not video-ad specs or a promise about every publishing tool.
- **TikTok through the API:** its
[media-transfer guide](https://developers.tiktok.com/docs/en/content-posting-api-media-transfer-guide) recommends
**MP4 and H.264**, also accepts MOV/WebM and other listed codecs, and specifies **23–60 fps**, each video dimension
**360–4096 px**, and a **4 GB** maximum. Photo uploads are **JPEG or WebP**, up to **20 MB each**; the photo-post
reference allows up to **35 images**. These are API constraints, not native-app upload specifications.
For Direct Post, check the creator's current
[`max_video_post_duration_sec`](https://developers.tiktok.com/docs/en/content-posting-api-reference-query-creator-info):
the allowance varies, so don't publish the example's duration as everyone's limit.
For a short clip reused across the three, a vertical master with readable captions is a practical starting point,
not a universal required aspect ratio. Check where each feed crops it and where interface controls cover it. Put
important text away from the edges, review the first frame and cover, and add alt text to photos where supported.
Don't carry burned-in “swipe up” or “link below” instructions onto a destination where they don't work.
TikTok's [posting help](https://support.tiktok.com/en/using-tiktok/creating-videos/making-a-post) describes adding
sounds and effects in the app. The documented video Direct Post request doesn't provide a native sound picker or
effect-selection field; photo Direct Post's `auto_add_music` adds recommended music, not a chosen track ID.
If the post depends on an editing feature the tool can't express, use an explicit phone handoff. TikTok's
[Upload Content workflow](https://developers.tiktok.com/docs/en/content-posting-api-get-started-upload-content)
delivers media to an inbox notification so the owner can finish and post in TikTok. It isn't publication.
Availability of a TikTok sound also doesn't establish rights to reuse it on X or LinkedIn.
## Why a straight copy can underperform
The mismatch is concrete before any algorithm is involved:
- A LinkedIn explanation can exceed X's post limit; cutting it mechanically can remove the point or the link.
- An X thread pasted into LinkedIn keeps reply numbering but loses the conversation's structure.
- A text-and-link announcement gives TikTok viewers no visual demonstration and may point at an unusable link.
- A copied @handle can mention the wrong person, and the same image can crop important words differently.
- “Watch with sound,” “read the thread” and “download the PDF” make sense only when that version supplies the thing.
Those are reasons to adapt, not a measured claim that every duplicate gets penalized. These sources don't establish
a universal reach penalty, an optimal hashtag count or a guaranteed lift from rewriting. Read each network's own
results separately rather than adding unlike view counts together.
## One idea, three versions
Suppose the original idea is: “We made exporting a project faster and easier to understand.”
1. **X:** Lead with the specific change and a short screen clip. Use one post if it fits; make a thread only if the
explanation needs distinct parts. Put a real destination link in the version that needs one.
2. **LinkedIn:** Explain the problem, what changed and what another team could learn. Keep the opening useful before
“see more.” Attach a screen clip, photos or a document appropriate to that explanation, then inspect the link card
if using one.
3. **TikTok:** Show the old friction, then the new export, with legible on-screen text. Write a caption describing
what viewers just saw. Choose the account's supported next step, not a copied promise of a clickable caption URL.
Don't invent a percentage improvement for the hook. Reusing one factual brief is the efficiency; the three exports
and captions are the publishing work.
## Tools that cross-post
These are examples, not a ranking. Check the exact post type, account type and automatic-publish versus handoff
support before choosing. No one tool makes every native feature portable.
| Option | Where it fits | What to check |
|---|---|---|
| [Buffer](https://buffer.com/resources/how-to-crosspost/) | A shared composer with per-network edits; its guide includes X, LinkedIn and TikTok. | Customize copy, media and time per channel. Confirm whether the selected TikTok feature can auto-publish or needs the app. |
| [Postiz](https://docs.postiz.com/general/platforms/overview) | A broader publishing tool with X, LinkedIn and TikTok integrations, including API-driven workflows. | Network-specific requirements still apply. Its TikTok direct and upload-to-inbox modes are different outcomes. |
| [Typefully](https://typefully.com/docs/api) | Text-first cross-posting to X and LinkedIn, with separate content per enabled platform. | TikTok isn't in the destinations listed by this API reference; don't choose it here as a three-network video publisher. |
| [Flaghand](/schedule) | A desk for people whose own AI agent drafts X and LinkedIn personal-profile posts, with owner approval over the exact snapshot. | Sign-up isn't open yet. TikTok inbox drafts are beta; public Direct Post awaits TikTok's audit, and TikTok scheduling isn't currently offered. |
Flaghand's agent can draft, upload, check and request one approval for the plan. **No agent token can approve,
schedule or post.** The owner approves in Flaghand with a passkey. Limited X read-back is available; LinkedIn
read-back isn't. See the [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) for that boundary and the
[TikTok API guide](/docs/guides/tiktok-content-posting-api) for inbox versus Direct Post. If you need an available
all-three auto-publisher today, evaluate the other tools' current capabilities rather than treating Flaghand's beta
as a shipped equivalent. [Join the Flaghand waitlist](/schedule).
## Before sending the plan
Check the destination account, final text count, selected mentions, links and cards, crop, video length, captions,
cover and media rights separately for each version. Name any phone work explicitly. Then review the three versions
as one plan, with their actual times and who does each step. A saved draft or an inbox upload is not a published
post; afterwards check each network's live link, not just the scheduler's “sent” label.
## Sources and verification scope
All checked on **October 26, 2026**. The linked X Help pages were checked through indexed first-party text where
direct retrieval refused access; no bot check was bypassed. TikTok Help's article bodies were also checked through
indexed official help text, including translated versions, because direct requests returned a JavaScript shell.
LinkedIn Help, TikTok's developer references and the tools' own public documentation were read directly. No real
account was connected, no post was approved or published, and no reach experiment was run. Recheck native limits and
the chosen tool's supported fields before changing a publishing workflow.
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/how-to-post-to-x-communities.md
# How to post to X Communities
In X's app, join the Community, then choose it as the audience before you post. Through the API, send the
Community's ID as `community_id` in `POST /2/tweets`, from an account that is allowed to post there. Before building
on either, know that X announced in April 2026 that it would retire Communities. They were still running on
October 25, 2026.
**Checked on October 26, 2026.** X's API reference, OpenAPI spec, pricing page and changelog were read directly.
X Help returned a bot check, so its Communities page was read in the Internet Archive's copy from October 10, 2026.
Error behavior comes from X staff answers on X's developer forum. Everything is linked under [Sources](#sources). No
live X API call was made and nothing was posted for this guide.
## First: X has announced that Communities are ending
On April 22, 2026, Nikita Bier, X's head of product, announced that X would deprecate Communities and move groups to
joinable XChat group chats. TechCrunch reported an announced shutdown date of May 6, 2026, and later an extended
migration deadline of May 30, 2026. It doesn't explicitly call May 30 a revised shutdown date.
Communities were still running after that date:
- On October 25, 2026, x.com labeled a public post made that day "Community post · Build in Public".
- X's API reference (version 2.172, read October 26, 2026) still documents `community_id` on `POST /2/tweets` and
the Communities lookup and search endpoints. X's API changelog has no entry removing them.
We found no new date from X. So treat a Community as a destination that can stop working. Keep each Community post
readable as an ordinary post, and decide ahead of time what happens if X refuses it. Don't let software quietly post it
to your main timeline instead.
## Who can post in a Community
Only members. X's help page says: "Once you join a Community, you can post into it."
- **Your account must be public.** X says protected accounts can't join yet.
- **How you join depends on the Community.** In an open Community, tap **Join** and agree to its rules. In a
restricted one, tap **Ask to join** and wait for a moderator. People invited by moderators are approved
automatically, and some restricted Communities let members invite others.
- **Blocking ends membership.** If you block a moderator, or a moderator blocks you, you can't join; a member in that
situation is removed.
- **Moderators can remove members** and hide posts that break the Community's rules.
The API shows the same choices. A Community's `access` is `Public` or `Closed`. Its `join_policy` is `Open`,
`RestrictedJoinRequestsDisabled`, `RestrictedJoinRequestsRequireAdminApproval`,
`RestrictedJoinRequestsRequireModeratorApproval` or `SuperFollowRequired`.
X's help page doesn't explain how to create a Community. Plan around Communities that already exist.
## How to post to a Community in X's app
1. Open the Community and join it. Members find their Communities in the Communities tab of the iOS app or in the
sidebar on x.com.
2. Start a new post. Before you post, tap the audience control (it says **Everyone**, which means your followers) and
choose the Community. If you belong to several, they're listed under **My Communities**.
3. Post it.
X's July 2025 API changelog mentions an **Also share with followers** checkbox on x.com. X's help page doesn't, so
check that your composer shows it before you rely on it.
To find more Communities, use the search in the Communities tab. X says search works only on the web and in the iOS
app, only once you belong to at least one Community, and not every Community appears in the results.
## What members and everyone else see
| Who | What X's help page says |
|---|---|
| Members | The post appears in the Community and in members' Home timelines. Their Communities timeline shows only posts from Communities they belong to. |
| Your followers and everyone else | Community posts "are shared with Community members, your followers, and other X users", on the Community page, in search results, on your profile and in other timelines. |
| People who aren't members | They can reply, but moderators can limit what non-members do and hide their replies. |
Older lines on the same page and in X's API data dictionary still say only members can join in the discussion. The
newer posting section says non-members can reply. Expect replies from outside the Community.
On x.com, a Community post shows the Community's name above the author's name, linked to the Community. A logged-out
post page heads it "Community post · " and the Community's name.
What happens to the post later:
- **You leave the Community:** your posts and replies stay in it.
- **The Community is deleted:** your posts aren't deleted.
- **X suspends the Community:** your posts in it become visible only to you. You can delete them, or get them from
your X archive.
- **A moderator hides your post:** it stops appearing to members in the Community.
## Posting to a Community through the X API
### 1. Get the Community's ID
The ID is in the Community's link: `https://x.com/i/communities/`. It's 1 to 19 digits.
To check the ID belongs to the Community you mean, look it up:
```bash
curl "https://api.x.com/2/communities/1234567890123456789?community.fields=name,access,join_policy,member_count" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $X_TOKEN"
```
This lookup accepts an app-only bearer token, or a user token with `tweet.read`, `users.read` and `list.read`. X
charges $0.005 per Community read. To find a Community by keyword, use `GET /2/communities/search?query=…` with a user
token (`tweet.read`, `users.read`); it returns 10 to 100 results per page.
Names aren't unique. One developer on X's forum kept getting errors because their ID belonged to a different
Community with the same name, so match on the ID.
A lookup also isn't a membership check: it tells you the Community exists, not that this account may post in it.
### 2. Create the post
```bash
curl -X POST https://api.x.com/2/tweets \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $USER_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"text": "Shipped the onboarding fix today.", "community_id": "1234567890123456789"}'
```
- **Use the posting account's user token.** OAuth 2.0 with `tweet.read`, `tweet.write` and `users.read`, or an OAuth
1.0a user token. An app-only bearer token can't post. [X API OAuth 2.0 with PKCE](/docs/guides/x-api-oauth-2-pkce)
shows how to get one.
- **Send the ID as a string.** X's schema takes 1 to 19 digits in a string. Don't send the link, and don't send a
JSON number: JavaScript and many JSON parsers round integers above 2^53, and 19-digit IDs are larger than that.
- **It costs the same as any post.** X's pricing page lists $0.015 per post and $0.200 for a post with a URL. It lists
no separate price for posting to a Community. [X API pricing](/docs/guides/x-api-pricing) has the rest.
- **Media and polls use the usual fields.** [Threads, polls and media](/docs/guides/x-api-threads-polls-media) has the
request shapes.
`share_with_followers` is an optional boolean on the same request. X's changelog for July 28, 2025 says that with a
`community_id` and `share_with_followers: true`, the post also goes to your followers' timelines, "matching the 'Also
share with followers' checkbox on x.com". X's API reference describes the same field as "Share an exclusive
(super-follower) tweet with all followers." Send it only if you mean it, as a JSON `true` or `false`, and look at the
result in X. Reading the post back doesn't return it.
Send every flag as a JSON boolean. X staff confirmed that `for_super_followers_only` must be a boolean: a client
library that sent the string `"False"` with a `community_id` got a 400.
### 3. Check where it landed
Read the post back with `GET /2/tweets/:id?tweet.fields=community_id`. X's data dictionary describes `community_id` as
the Community the post belongs to. Compare it with the ID you sent. An ordinary post has none.
## Which Community posts the API refuses
| What you sent | What happens | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| A post from an account that can't post in that Community, for example one that isn't a member, was removed or is protected | 403, "Your account is not permitted to access this feature." X staff called this intended when "the authenticated user is unable to create a post for the provided Community". | Join (or ask to join) in X's app, then try again. Repeating the same request won't change the answer. |
| A wrong Community ID, or one the account can't use | Developers reported 503 Service Unavailable for these in 2025 and early 2026. X staff said to check the Community is valid and the account may post there, and in March 2026 said the reported 503s were fixed. | Before treating a 503 on a Community post as an outage, check the ID and the membership. Confirm nothing was posted before you retry. |
| A `community_id` that isn't 1 to 19 digits in a string | It doesn't match X's schema. | Take the ID out of the link and send it as a string. |
| A quote post (`quote_tweet_id`) | Since April 20, 2026 quoting needs an Enterprise plan; self-serve apps can't quote. | Quote it in X's app. |
| A reply to someone else's post | Since February 23, 2026 self-serve apps can reply only when that post's author summoned you: mentioned your account or quoted your post. | Reply in X's app. |
| A thread | X's docs don't describe posting a thread into a Community. | Post a single post. |
Status codes, error text and rules change. Read the error's `detail` and the current
[X API posting errors](/docs/guides/x-api-posting-errors) guide before you retry.
## Posting to a Community with Flaghand
Flaghand is one way to post to a Community when an AI agent writes the posts and a person approves them.
- An agent drafts a single X post with `community` set to the Community's ID or its `x.com/i/communities/…` link. The
draft check looks up the Community's name through X's API, once per workspace (X's $0.005 Community read), or the
agent can look it up first with the `lookUpXCommunity` operation.
- The preview draws the Community line as x.com shows it. The owner approves that exact text and destination with a
passkey; changing the Community afterwards voids the approval.
- At the approved time, Flaghand sends the ID as `community_id`, and `share_with_followers` only if the draft sets it.
Flaghand sets no default for it. It then reads the post back and checks its `community_id`. It can't check follower
sharing, because X doesn't return that flag.
- If the lookup fails, approval is blocked. Flaghand never turns a Community post into an ordinary post on its own.
- A Community takes single posts only, not threads. The lookup isn't a membership check: X decides when the post is
sent.
- New X connections ask for `list.read`, which the lookup needs. An existing connection needs the owner to reconnect
only before its first Community lookup that isn't already saved.
Agents draft, check and request approval. No agent token can approve, schedule or post. The details are in
[drafts and media](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/drafts-and-media#x-communities) and the
[approval boundary](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely). Sign-up isn't open yet:
[get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
## Sources
All checked on October 26, 2026. No live X API call was made and nothing was posted.
- X Help: [Join a Community on X](https://help.x.com/en/using-x/communities): joining, who can post, choosing the
audience, visibility, replies, leaving, suspension, search and moderators. X Help returned a bot check, so it was
read in the [Internet Archive's October 10, 2026 copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20261010153606/https://help.x.com/en/using-x/communities).
- X API: [create a post](https://docs.x.com/x-api/posts/create-post) (`community_id`, `share_with_followers`,
scopes, the Enterprise rule for quotes), [get a Community by ID](https://docs.x.com/x-api/communities/get-community-by-id),
[search Communities](https://docs.x.com/x-api/communities/search-communities),
[Communities lookup](https://docs.x.com/x-api/communities/lookup/introduction),
[data dictionary](https://docs.x.com/x-api/fundamentals/data-dictionary) (the Community object and the post's
`community_id`), [pricing](https://docs.x.com/x-api/getting-started/pricing) and the
[OpenAPI spec](https://api.x.com/2/openapi.json), version 2.172.
- X API [changelog](https://docs.x.com/changelog): `share_with_followers` (July 28, 2025) and the self-serve reply
rule (February 23, 2026).
- X's developer forum, answers from X staff: [403 on Community posting](https://devcommunity.x.com/t/257434)
(February–March 2026), [503 with a Community ID](https://devcommunity.x.com/t/245805) (July 2025) and
[boolean flags with a Community](https://devcommunity.x.com/t/249277) (September 2025).
- X: [Nikita Bier's announcement](https://x.com/nikitabier/status/2047041338106159484) (April 22, 2026), and
[TechCrunch's report](https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/x-is-shutting-down-communities-because-of-low-usage-and-lots-of-spam/)
of the announced shutdown and the migration deadline's extension to May 30.
- Observed on x.com: a public post made on October 25, 2026, labeled "Community post · Build in Public".
- Flaghand: [drafts and media](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/drafts-and-media#x-communities), [agents](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/how-to-schedule-linkedin-posts.md
# How to schedule LinkedIn posts
To schedule a LinkedIn profile post, open **Start a post**, write it, select the **clock**, choose a date and time,
then **Next → Schedule**. LinkedIn lets you choose a time **10 minutes to 3 months ahead**. You don't need a separate
publishing tool for that.
A scheduling tool becomes useful when you want a shared queue, more than one network, or an AI agent preparing posts
for your review. Building directly on the API is another option, but the documented Posts API publishes when called;
your application has to keep the queue and make the call when the post is due.
LinkedIn's own help pages and API docs (version 202610), and Buffer's own help, were **checked on October 26, 2026**.
This is a documentation check, not a live scheduling or posting test. The sources are linked beside the claims below.
## Choose the route that fits
| Route | Good fit | What to know first |
|---|---|---|
| LinkedIn's profile scheduler | A feed post you write and review yourself | 10 minutes to 3 months ahead; its help excludes events and jobs |
| LinkedIn's Page scheduler | A company Page you manage | 1 hour to 3 months ahead; super admin or content admin; different format restrictions |
| A scheduling tool | A queue across accounts or networks | Check personal profiles versus Pages, each format, approval controls and connection renewal |
| Your own API integration | An app or agent workflow you are building | Member consent and `w_member_social` for profile posts; you run the queue, timing and failure handling |
## Schedule a post on your personal profile
These are LinkedIn's documented controls, not steps inside Flaghand:
1. From LinkedIn's home feed, select **Start a post** and compose your update.
2. Select the **clock** in the composer. On the mobile app, start from **Post** and use the clock there.
3. Choose the date and time, between **10 minutes and 3 months** from now. You can enter a precise time; the menu's
half-hour intervals aren't mandatory.
4. Select **Next**, review the post and its displayed time, then **Schedule**.
5. Check the queue using the [scheduled-post viewing steps](#how-to-see-scheduled-posts-on-linkedin) below.
LinkedIn converts the chosen time to UTC using your **device's time zone**. Check the device setting and the time
shown above the draft, especially when travelling. Don't assume a teammate's local 9 am is your local 9 am.
### What can and can't use the profile scheduler?
LinkedIn's current [Schedule posts help](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1347212) describes scheduling
feed posts and explicitly excludes **events and jobs**. It doesn't enumerate every supported attachment format, and
it doesn't list polls or service posts in that exclusion. That omission is not a guarantee that every composer
variant can be scheduled: check that the clock is available for the post you are making.
In particular, don't copy a Page-specific restriction into a profile guide, or use an API's supported-format list as
proof that the same format works in LinkedIn's native clock. They are different publishing routes.
## How to see scheduled posts on LinkedIn
For posts scheduled with LinkedIn's **personal-profile** clock, reopen the composer rather than searching your
published activity. LinkedIn's [Schedule posts help](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1347212),
**checked on October 26, 2026**, gives these routes:
- **Desktop:** from the home feed, select **Start a post → clock → View all scheduled posts**.
- **Mobile app:** select **Post → clock → View all**.
Both open **Scheduled posts**. Select an item to preview it. Its **More** menu offers **Modify schedule** and **Edit post**;
the **Delete** control removes it after you confirm **Delete** in the confirmation dialog. Check the new displayed time
after rescheduling.
These are the profile queue's controls, not the company Page queue. For a Page, use its super admin or content admin
view and the [Page scheduling instructions](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1429854). If you
scheduled through a separate tool's own queue, check that tool too; don't assume LinkedIn's clock is a combined calendar
of every service you use.
## Schedule a post as a LinkedIn Page
For a Page, enter its **super admin or content admin** view, then **Page posts → Start a post → clock**. Choose the
time, select **Next**, finish reviewing and select **Schedule**. LinkedIn's
[Page scheduling instructions](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1429854) also cover the mobile route
through **Dashboard → Page posts → Post**.
The [Page scheduling overview](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a548192/scheduled-posts-for-linkedin-pages)
gives a different window: **1 hour to 3 months ahead**. It also supports scheduling newsletter articles, but lists
these as unsupported: **events, multiple photos, reshares, polls, jobs and service posts**. Administrators can edit,
reschedule, publish immediately or delete queued posts, including posts scheduled by other administrators.
Those are the Page scheduler's restrictions, not a statement that LinkedIn's API cannot publish multiple photos or
polls. It can, with the right permission and a tool that implements them.
## Use a scheduling tool when the native queue isn't enough
A useful tool should make it clear **which account will publish**, **what content it can actually send**, **when it
will do so**, and **who has the authority to release it**. A calendar entry or an AI-generated draft is not evidence
that a post has been scheduled, much less published.
Two options illustrate different needs; this isn't an exhaustive ranking:
- **Buffer, for profiles and Pages.** Its
[LinkedIn guide](https://support.buffer.com/articles/using-linkedin-with-buffer-K7tRkGD3mH) documents scheduling to
both, with text, links, images, videos, GIFs and PDF documents. It supports up to 20 images, or one video, GIF or PDF
per post. PDF scheduling is web-only, not available in its mobile app; it explicitly doesn't create LinkedIn polls.
Buffer is the relevant option here if you need company Page publishing. Its guide also explains reconnecting an
expired or revoked connection. Check the required features in its current plan before choosing it.
- **Flaghand, for an agent drafting and a person deciding.** Its merged LinkedIn implementation supports personal
profiles, not company Page publishing: text, 1 to 20 photos, one MP4, one PDF document, a link card or a poll. These
are alternative content types, not a promise that they can be combined. Agents can draft, upload, check and request
approval through its API or MCP; their tokens cannot approve, schedule or publish. Only the owner can approve the
exact snapshot and proposed time with a passkey. LinkedIn post read-back is unavailable with its current permissions,
so it reports the returned post link, not a verified match to the live post.
**Flaghand sign-up is not open yet.** It is an early-access option, not an account you can create by following this
article today. [Join the Flaghand waitlist](/schedule). Its public
[drafts and media reference](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/drafts-and-media) describes the implemented formats; the
[agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) explains the approval boundary. Account setup and the Flaghand-specific
scheduling walkthrough are not part of this public guide while sign-up is closed.
## Schedule through the LinkedIn API: your app owns the clock
[Share on LinkedIn](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/consumer/integrations/self-serve/share-on-linkedin)
is the self-serve product that grants **`w_member_social`**. The member authorizes your app with OAuth; that permission
lets it create posts as the authenticated **personal profile**. Posting as an organization is a different permission,
**`w_organization_social`**, with a qualifying Page role.
Use the current [Posts API](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/posts-api?view=li-lms-2026-10),
which replaces `ugcPosts`: `POST /rest/posts`, with `Linkedin-Version: 202610` and
`X-Restli-Protocol-Version: 2.0.0`. Its
[post schema](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/post-api-schema?view=li-lms-2026-10)
accepts only **`lifecycleState: "PUBLISHED"` on creation**. It documents `publishedAt` as the time the content was
published, not as a future scheduling instruction. There is no documented future-time scheduling parameter in that
create contract. `DRAFT` appearing in a response-state list is not permission to create a delayed post.
For an API-based scheduler, keep the approved content and intended instant in your own system, then submit the
publish request when due. Your system must handle authorization failures, media processing and uncertain outcomes;
an unanswered request is not proof that nothing published. Don't blindly replay it. A successful create returns
**201** and the post ID in **`x-restli-id`**. Save that result separately from your queue's intended time.
### What a personal profile can post through it
| Content | LinkedIn's documented member-write support |
|---|---|
| Text and links | `commentary` for text; a link card uses `content.article`. The Posts API doesn't scrape the URL to fill its title, description and thumbnail for you |
| One image or video | Upload first through the Images or Videos API, then attach the returned media URN |
| Multiple images | [MultiImage API](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/multiimage-post-api?view=li-lms-2026-10): 2 to 20 images in an organic post |
| Document, including a swipeable PDF | [Documents API](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/documents-api?view=li-lms-2026-10): PDF, PPT, PPTX, DOC or DOCX, up to 100 MB and 300 pages; the authenticated member must own the document |
| Poll | [Poll API](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/poll-post-api?view=li-lms-2026-10): organic polls, 2 to 4 options, open for 1, 3, 7 or 14 days |
| Repost with commentary | Posts API: `reshareContext.parent`, subject to the original post's eligibility and visibility restrictions |
That is **LinkedIn's API surface**, not a claim that every scheduling tool supports every row. In particular, a PDF
document is not the API's advertising-only carousel format, and an `article` link card is not a native newsletter edition.
**Write permission isn't read permission.** Retrieving member posts needs `r_member_social`. LinkedIn's
[Community Management overview](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/community-management-overview?view=li-lms-2026-10)
calls it a closed permission and says it isn't accepting access requests. An ordinary Share on LinkedIn app can't
promise to read a published post back merely because it can create one. Reading the parent before a repost is also a
separate permission problem. See the [personal-profile API guide](/docs/guides/linkedin-api-personal-profile) for
comments, mentions and the other permission boundaries.
## Before you leave a post in any queue
Check the author, the complete text, the media, the intended date and the time zone. If you move a post between tools,
make sure the original queue won't publish it too. Keep the platform's accepted result distinct from a planned slot;
when the tool can't verify the live post, inspect its link yourself rather than treating "scheduled" as "verified".
For a simple post, LinkedIn's own scheduler is the shortest route. Use a broader tool for a real workflow need, and
build your own API queue only if you want to own its operational work. You can check the draft's feed appearance in
the free [LinkedIn post preview](/linkedin-post-preview) without a Flaghand account; it does not schedule or publish.
## Frequently asked questions
### How do I see scheduled posts on LinkedIn?
On desktop, open **Start a post → clock → View all scheduled posts**. In the mobile app, open
**Post → clock → View all**. Select a queued post to preview it. These are LinkedIn's personal-profile controls;
see the [scheduled-post section](#how-to-see-scheduled-posts-on-linkedin) for editing, rescheduling and the Page distinction.
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/how-to-schedule-tiktok-posts.md
# How to schedule TikTok posts
**Start with TikTok Studio on the web.** If your account has the scheduling control, upload the finished video,
choose its settings and a future time, then confirm the schedule. For a shared calendar or a longer queue, consider a
scheduling tool, but check whether it actually publishes or only sends you a reminder or an inbox draft.
TikTok's help pages and developer documentation were checked on October 26, 2026. The instructions below describe
TikTok's documented workflows, not a posting test on a real account. TikTok's sources describe different surfaces;
their timing windows aren't interchangeable.
## Who can schedule in TikTok Studio?
TikTok's [Tools for creators help page](https://support.tiktok.com/en/using-tiktok/creating-videos/creator-tools-on-tiktok)
says TikTok Studio can upload, schedule and edit posts, and that creator tools are available for both Personal and
Business Accounts. It also says features differ between the app and the web, and can depend on region and eligibility.
**Access to Studio doesn't guarantee every account gets the same scheduling control.** Use the browser for these steps;
don't assume a control shown on the web will also appear in the phone app.
There is an important difference in TikTok's sources: its separate
[Video Scheduler walkthrough](https://ads.tiktok.com/business/en/blog/introducing-video-scheduler-now-you-can-plan-tiktoks-in-advance)
specifies a **Business Account** for desktop scheduling. That narrower requirement belongs to that walkthrough; it
isn't proof that all current Studio tools require switching a Personal Account to Business. Check what your account
actually offers before changing its type.
## How far ahead can you schedule a TikTok?
The Video Scheduler walkthrough documents **15 minutes to 10 days ahead**. It also says the scheduling timezone
defaults to your computer's setting. Treat that as the window documented for that scheduler, not a promise about
every account or TikTok surface. TikTok's broader Studio help page does not give a numeric scheduling window.
TikTok's [Web Business Suite help](https://ads.tiktok.com/help/article/navigate-web-business-suite?lang=en), updated
May 2026, lists a Scheduler for Business Accounts but doesn't state its advance window. Its 30-day reporting periods
are analytics, not a scheduling allowance.
You may also see a **30-day** claim. TikTok Shop's US
[shoppable-video guide](https://seller-us.tiktok.com/university/essay?knowledge_id=1929072592013111), dated May 13,
2026, documents **30 minutes to 30 days ahead for TikTok Shop creators' shoppable videos**. That is a separate workflow,
not evidence that every ordinary Studio upload can be scheduled a month ahead. The date picker in your account is the
practical check; don't plan a month of regular posts solely from a Shop tutorial.
## Schedule a video in TikTok's own web tools
These steps follow TikTok's Video Scheduler walkthrough. Labels can differ in today's Studio interface.
1. **Sign in to TikTok on the web and open the upload page in TikTok Studio.** TikTok's walkthrough starts from the
cloud-shaped upload control on its website. Confirm you're in the account that should publish the video.
2. **Upload the finished video and review the post.** Set the caption, hashtags, cover, visibility and interaction
choices offered for that account. Don't confuse uploading a file with confirming a schedule.
3. **Turn on Schedule and choose the date and time.** Check the timezone, including a computer set for travel or a
different location. Use the dates the account's picker actually permits.
4. **Confirm and check that the post appears in the scheduled list.** TikTok's walkthrough says scheduled posts can
be seen alongside drafts on desktop and mobile. A saved draft without a scheduled time isn't a queued publication.
5. **Check the result after the chosen time.** The walkthrough says TikTok sends a push notification when it posts.
Confirm the post is live on the intended account; don't treat an earlier upload confirmation as publication.
**Can you edit a scheduled TikTok?** The Video Scheduler walkthrough says you cannot change the video, caption or
scheduled time after scheduling: delete that scheduled item, make the changes and upload it again. Those are the
walkthrough's documented rules; check the controls on your current surface before relying on an edit being possible.
Cancel the old item before confirming a replacement so both don't publish.
If Schedule is missing, check that you're using the web surface and that the account is eligible for that feature.
TikTok's general Studio availability statement alone isn't a guarantee. Neither saving a draft nor setting a reminder
makes TikTok publish it automatically.
## TikTok reminders versus automatic posting
**A reminder tells you to post; automatic publishing sends the post without another manual Publish step at the due
time.** Choose by the work you want to do then, not just whether a tool puts the video on a calendar. TikTok's
[Video Scheduler walkthrough](https://ads.tiktok.com/business/en/blog/introducing-video-scheduler-now-you-can-plan-tiktoks-in-advance)
and [inbox upload guide](https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/content-posting-api-get-started-upload-content) were
**checked on October 26, 2026**. They describe different outcomes:
| Workflow | What happens | What you still do |
|---|---|---|
| Reminder in your calendar or scheduling tool | You receive an alert to post; the alert itself publishes nothing | Open TikTok, finish the post and tap Publish yourself |
| TikTok's native Video Scheduler | TikTok publishes the video you scheduled | Review before scheduling; check the live result afterwards |
| API inbox upload | Content is delivered to your TikTok inbox, not automatically published | Open the inbox notification, finish editing and publish in TikTok |
| A tool's automatic publishing route | The tool initiates the authorized publication when its own queue says it is due | Confirm that the account, format and publishing route are supported; check the result afterwards |
To schedule **with a reminder**, prepare the video and caption, set an alert in the calendar or tool you use, then open
TikTok and complete the post when it arrives. This is a manual workflow, not a claim that TikTok Studio has a separate
reminder-scheduling feature. An inbox upload can hand off the content, but TikTok explicitly says the creator must open
its notification to continue editing and complete the post; an upload success is not a published-post result.
For **automatic posting**, use an available native scheduling control or a tool with an eligible Direct Post route.
Check which one you selected before leaving it unattended. In TikTok's native scheduler walkthrough, the push
notification says the video **has posted**: it is confirmation after publication, not a reminder asking you to publish.
A tool using Direct Post has its own queue and TikTok's authorization and audit requirements, explained below; a calendar
slot alone doesn't prove that route is available. Neither route guarantees a successful public post at an exact second.
## When a scheduling tool is useful
A separate tool can be a better fit for a team calendar, multiple networks or a queue beyond the native date picker.
TikTok itself describes automatic publishing through Later in a
[partner scheduling walkthrough](https://ads.tiktok.com/business/en-US/blog/how-to-use-content-scheduling-platform)
from July 28, 2022. That's evidence of a partner workflow, not a current comparison of Later's plans or a guarantee
that any tool can publish every TikTok format.
Before choosing a tool, check its current documentation for the exact account and post type you use:
- **Automatic publishing or a handoff?** A reminder asks you to post. An inbox upload asks you to finish in TikTok.
Neither is unattended publication at the promised time.
- **Video or photo post?** Confirm each separately. A video made from images isn't the same format as a swipeable
photo slideshow. Also check whether your chosen sound, effects or other edits require finishing in TikTok.
- **Which clock owns the queue?** Check its timezone, advance window, and what happens when authorization expires or
a post fails. A tool's calendar is not TikTok's own scheduler.
- **Who gives permission?** Review the destination account, post, privacy and commercial disclosures before authorizing
publication. An AI assistant's ability to prepare a post isn't the owner's decision to send it.
For photo slides, the free [TikTok slideshow maker](/tiktok-slideshow-maker) prepares downloadable images in the
browser. **It doesn't schedule or publish.** This guide doesn't repeat its editing or export steps.
## What the Content Posting API changes
TikTok's Content Posting API offers two different routes, not a single scheduling switch:
- **Inbox upload**, with the approved and user-authorized `video.upload` scope, sends content to the creator's TikTok
inbox. TikTok's [upload guide](https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/content-posting-api-get-started-upload-content)
requires the creator to open the notification, finish editing and publish in TikTok. Sending a draft at 9:00 does
not mean it goes public at 9:00.
- **Direct Post**, with the approved and user-authorized `video.publish` scope, publishes from the integration after
the creator's posting choices and consent. TikTok's
[Direct Post guide](https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/content-posting-api-get-started) says unaudited clients are
restricted to private viewing. Its [sharing guidelines](https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/content-sharing-guidelines)
additionally require private posting accounts and `SELF_ONLY` before audit. General app or scope approval is not
the separate Direct Post audit needed to remove those restrictions.
The [Direct Post video request](https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/content-posting-api-reference-direct-post) has no
future publication date/time field. A service using that endpoint needs to keep its own queue and initiate the
approved post when due; TikTok still processes it asynchronously. That is not a reservation in TikTok Studio, nor a
guarantee the post becomes visible at an exact second. Creator-control, consent and audit requirements still apply.
For scopes, photo support, audit requirements and result states, read
[TikTok's Content Posting API, explained](/docs/guides/tiktok-content-posting-api) rather than treating this scheduling
guide as an API implementation recipe.
## Where Flaghand stands
**Flaghand does not currently offer TikTok scheduling.** TikTok inbox drafts are in beta; public Direct Post waits for
TikTok's audit. An inbox result is a handoff, not a published post, and is not a comparison of the live post against
an approved preview. Agents draft, upload, check and request approval; they cannot approve, schedule or post. Only the
owner approves the exact snapshot in Flaghand with their passkey before anything is sent.
Public sign-up is closed. This page therefore includes no Flaghand account-setup or posting steps, and doesn't
promise access to a scheduler that hasn't shipped. The linked API explainer describes current capabilities; the free
slideshow maker works without an account. [Get access to Flaghand](/schedule) goes to the waitlist until sign-up opens.
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/how-to-schedule-x-posts-and-threads.md
# How to schedule X (Twitter) posts and threads
For one ordinary post, start with X's web composer. For a thread, choose a tool that explicitly supports X threads,
not just scheduled posts. For your own application, the X API creates posts when you call it; your application supplies
the clock and the queue.
**Checked on October 26, 2026.** X facts below come from its own help pages and API documentation, linked under
[Sources](#sources). X Help blocked direct retrieval, so its help-page claims were checked against indexed official
text, not a signed-in composer. API and scheduler documentation was read directly. Plan access and controls can change;
uncertainties are named below rather than filled in from third-party tutorials. No real post was scheduled or sent for
this guide.
## Which route should you use?
| Route | Access | Best fit | Check before committing |
|---|---|---|---|
| X's ordinary web composer | An X account; the help text checked does not establish its current free-versus-paid eligibility | One post without another publishing tool | Whether your composer offers the calendar, and whether your post type keeps it available |
| X Pro, formerly TweetDeck | X's current indexed Premium help places X Pro under Premium+ only | A column-based desk, including scheduled image or video posts | Do not assume Basic or the middle Premium tier includes X Pro |
| A scheduling tool | That tool's account and plan; its restrictions can differ from X's | Threads, a queue, multiple networks or team review | Explicit X-thread, poll and media support, not a generic scheduling claim |
| Your own X API integration | A developer app, user authorization and API credits | A publishing feature in software you operate | Durable scheduling, upload expiry, partial threads and uncertain results |
**Do you need X Premium to schedule a post?** Do not confuse X Pro's paid access with the ordinary web calendar.
The X Help text available for this check does not establish a current tier requirement for the ordinary composer, so
we cannot promise universal free-account access. Check for the calendar in your own web composer before buying a plan.
For X Pro, the [Premium tier list](https://help.x.com/en/using-x/x-premium) currently places access under **Premium+**;
older tutorials saying simply “Premium” may be out of date. Recheck that page before paying.
## Schedule one post on X's website
Use the website, not instructions written for the iOS or Android app. This is a web-composer checklist, not a claim
that every account or post type was tested:
1. Open the post composer on X's website and write the post. Check the account, text and any attachments.
2. If the calendar control is available, open it and choose the date and time. Read the displayed time zone rather
than assuming it is your intended audience's zone.
3. Confirm the time, then complete the composer's **Schedule** action. A draft or a date selected without the final
scheduling action is not a scheduled post.
4. Open the composer's scheduled-post list and confirm the saved content and time. If you edit it, check the saved
schedule again.
If the calendar is absent, do not assume a subscription upgrade fixes it. Check the post type first. X's
[Premium how-to](https://help.x.com/en/using-x/x-premium-how-to) explicitly says **longer posts cannot yet be scheduled**.
A paid account's ability to write a longer post is not permission to schedule one.
X's [Media Studio help](https://help.x.com/en/using-x/media-studio-faqs) acknowledges that scheduled posts can be
modified on X.com, but Media Studio is a separate workflow. Likewise, X Ads scheduling instructions are for the Ads
dashboard, not proof of what the ordinary composer supports. This guide does not establish a current maximum advance
window for the ordinary composer.
## Schedule in X Pro
X's [advanced X Pro guide](https://help.x.com/en/using-x/advanced-xpro-features) explicitly documents this workflow:
1. Compose the post in X Pro. If needed, use **Add images or video** to attach the file.
2. Choose **Schedule post**, then select the date and time.
3. Finish the scheduling action and inspect it in a **Scheduled** column. Use that column to review or edit it.
That is evidence for scheduled image and video posts. It is not evidence for every media combination, longer posts,
polls or a whole thread. X Pro access also does not grant API credits or make your own API integration a scheduler;
those are separate products and workflows.
## What changes for threads, polls and media?
### Threads need a reply chain
A thread is not several independent posts set for the same minute. Part 2 must reply to part 1's actual post ID;
part 3 replies to part 2, and so on. X's [thread guide](https://help.x.com/en/using-x/create-a-thread) explains creating
a thread, but the official help text checked here does **not confirm scheduling a complete thread** in either the
ordinary web composer or X Pro. Do not assume the “add another post” button makes the whole chain schedulable.
Use a scheduler that explicitly offers X threads, and review the entire chain as one item. If you only need help
writing one, the free [X thread maker](/x-thread-maker) splits and previews the text without an account. It does not
schedule or publish anything.
### Poll creation is not poll scheduling
X's [poll help](https://help.x.com/en/using-x/x-polls) documents creating polls and says photos cannot be included in
one. The checked native scheduling help does not confirm scheduled polls. A poll button in a composer, or a tool's
ability to schedule text, is not proof that it schedules polls. Verify the exact route before planning a timed vote.
The X API does expose a `poll` object on post creation. A tool can build on that, but it must actually implement it:
Buffer, for example, explicitly says it does not create X polls.
### Media limits belong to the route you use
X Pro explicitly documents scheduled images and video. Third-party tools can have smaller file or duration allowances
than X's own website, and paid longer-video privileges do not automatically carry across to them. Check the tool's
current media rules, wait for the upload to finish, and review the crop, ordering and alt text before scheduling.
For an API integration, do not upload to X weeks ahead and assume the media ID will survive until publication. The
upload response gives `expires_after_secs`; upload close enough to the posting time, finish video processing, then
attach the returned ID. Keeping an original file in your scheduler is different from keeping an unexpired X upload.
## Scheduling tools: two available options and one waitlist
### Buffer: a documented thread scheduler, but no X polls
Buffer's [X guide](https://support.buffer.com/articles/using-xtwitter-with-buffer-nA84XnWtuU) explicitly supports threads
of up to 25 parts on its current Free, Essentials and Team plans. Free allows one scheduled thread at a time per
queue. Its guide says to create the thread on the web; check its current mobile documentation separately rather than
assuming the same controls are in every app.
Its [scheduling guide](https://support.buffer.com/en-us/articles/scheduling-posts-4Qdld7giAZ) describes **New Post**,
selecting the X channel, composing, and **Set Date and Time**, followed by **Schedule Post**. For a thread, its X guide
uses **Start Thread** to add parts. Inspect the saved queue and the channel's time zone afterwards.
Buffer supports photos, GIFs and video, but its X guide explicitly says **no X polls** and limits videos to 140 seconds
and 512 MB. Do not buy X Premium expecting that to extend Buffer's video allowance.
### Typefully: scheduled X publishing and an API
Typefully offers [X scheduling](https://typefully.com/) and an [API](https://typefully.com/docs/api) with a future
`publish_at` time. Its `plan_at` field is different: it plans a date without enabling automatic publication. Review
the current plan and format support before moving a queue; this guide does not certify its poll support or every media
combination. The [Typefully comparison](/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-typefully) covers its agent permissions and where it
may fit better than Flaghand.
### Flaghand: agent drafts, owner approval; sign-up is closed
Flaghand is an option for people whose own AI agent writes the posts. Its API, CLI and MCP let an agent draft, upload,
check and request approval. **No agent token can approve, schedule or post.** The owner approves the exact account,
content and proposed time in Flaghand with a passkey; changing posting content or the time needs a fresh approval.
It supports X threads as one draft, with 2 to 25 parts, and a poll on the opening part only. Polls cannot share that
part with media. Its upload allowance is 50 MB per file, not X's full long-video allowance. The
[drafts and media documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/drafts-and-media) gives the current rules.
After publication, Flaghand reads X posts back and reports limited comparisons, not a guarantee of identical pixels,
media-file bytes or link destinations. [The safety guide](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely) explains that boundary.
**Public sign-up is not open. [Join the Flaghand waitlist](/schedule).** There is no account-setup walkthrough here
that a new reader cannot complete. The account-dependent scheduling recipe remains unpublished until access opens.
## Schedule through the X API
The [create-post endpoint](https://docs.x.com/x-api/posts/create-post) is `POST /2/tweets`. Its documented request body
has no future publication-time field. Your application stores the content and intended time, then calls X when due.
An app-only bearer token cannot publish: use user-context authorization for the account that posts.
For a reliable implementation:
- Store the intended instant with an explicit UTC offset and display its local time zone for review. Decide how a
recurring wall-clock time behaves at daylight-saving changes.
- Keep scheduling state durably; a sleeping browser tab or a process that loses its queue on restart is not enough.
- Upload media near the due time, add alt text and wait for successful processing before attaching it.
- For a thread, save each returned ID before sending the next reply. The API has no single atomic thread transaction:
a failure can leave an opening segment live.
- After an uncertain response, reconcile before retrying. Blindly sending the same opening post again can duplicate it.
- Record success and the live links, or a clear failure that needs attention. A saved draft or accepted queue entry is
not evidence of publication.
X's API is [pay per use](https://docs.x.com/x-api/getting-started/pricing), separately from a scheduling tool's plan.
Each thread part is a post-creation request; polls, uploads, metadata and read-back have their own endpoint behavior.
See [X API pricing](/docs/guides/x-api-pricing) and the
[threads, polls and media API guide](/docs/guides/x-api-threads-polls-media) before estimating costs or implementing the
requests. Buying a consumer subscription is not a substitute for setting up developer access and billing.
## Before you leave a post in the queue
Check the posting account, exact content, thread order, poll choices, attachments, alt text and displayed time zone.
Inspect the saved schedule, not just the draft. After the due time, check the result and open the live link; for a
thread, confirm the replies are actually connected. A scheduler can attempt the right thing and still meet an expired
login, a media-processing failure or a platform refusal.
## Sources
Checked on October 26, 2026. X Help references below were checked through indexed official text because direct
requests were blocked; native account eligibility and UI behavior were not independently exercised. X API, Buffer,
Typefully and Flaghand documentation was read directly. No real posting call, account change or purchase was made.
- X Help: [Premium tiers](https://help.x.com/en/using-x/x-premium),
[Premium how-to and longer-post scheduling](https://help.x.com/en/using-x/x-premium-how-to),
[advanced X Pro features](https://help.x.com/en/using-x/advanced-xpro-features),
[Media Studio](https://help.x.com/en/using-x/media-studio-faqs),
[threads](https://help.x.com/en/using-x/create-a-thread), [polls](https://help.x.com/en/using-x/x-polls)
- X API: [create a post](https://docs.x.com/x-api/posts/create-post),
[media uploads](https://docs.x.com/x-api/media/quickstart/media-upload-chunked),
[pricing](https://docs.x.com/x-api/getting-started/pricing)
- Buffer: [X formats, threads and restrictions](https://support.buffer.com/articles/using-xtwitter-with-buffer-nA84XnWtuU),
[scheduling a post](https://support.buffer.com/en-us/articles/scheduling-posts-4Qdld7giAZ)
- Typefully: [publishing platform](https://typefully.com/), [API](https://typefully.com/docs/api)
- Flaghand: [drafts and media](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/drafts-and-media), [agents](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents)
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely.md
# How to let an AI agent post on social media safely
Letting an agent publish is where mistakes become public: a draft you never saw, a web page that told the agent what
to post, a retry that posts twice, the wrong account, a post that goes out a day late. Keep writing and publishing
apart: the agent writes, and only you can approve publication.
## Nine checks for any tool
Use these whatever tool you pick.
1. **The agent's credential can't publish.** Not "is told not to": can't. The server refuses, whatever the agent
sends.
2. **You approve the exact post.** Text, images, alt text, the account and the time, frozen together. Approving "draft
12" isn't enough if draft 12 can change afterwards.
3. **Posting-content edits void approval.** Changing one word of the post means approving again.
4. **Approving needs you, not a reply in chat.** A "yes" in a chat window can be typed by anyone, or produced by
injected text. A passkey requires device verification (Face ID, Touch ID, a device PIN or a security key), outside the
agent's token. Protect your devices and signed-in sessions too.
5. **The preview matches the platform.** You should approve what your followers will see: the same line breaks,
cropping and link cards.
6. **Retries preserve recorded posts.** Networks fail midway through threads. Retrying unchanged content should use
recorded live post IDs, not start the thread over. Check what happens if you edit a partly published thread.
7. **Late posts fail instead of going out stale.** "Launching in an hour" shouldn't post the next morning.
8. **The live post is checked, with limits stated.** After posting, the tool reads the post back and tells you which
parts it can compare with what you approved.
9. **Official APIs, scoped tokens, a log.** No shared passwords or browser cookies. Each agent gets its own token with
only the access it needs, which you can revoke. Check which actions identify who did them, and which only update a
job's state.
## How Flaghand meets them
| Check | Flaghand |
|---|---|
| 1. Agent can't publish | API tokens can have `read`, `drafts`, `media`, `request-approval`, `cancel`, `connections` and `billing` scopes. None can approve, schedule or post. Those routes require the owner, and approval requires a fresh passkey signature. Give a drafting agent only `read`, `drafts`, `media` and `request-approval`. |
| 2. Exact post | Approving freezes each draft into a snapshot (account, time, text, every media file and its alt text, and the exact request that will be sent), hashes it with SHA-256, and records your passkey signature over the hash. |
| 3. Edits void approval | Changing the post's text, media, account or time needs a new approval of the current revision. Scheduled drafts are locked: cancel the job before editing. Internal titles, notes and archive state aren't posting content. The scheduler checks the signed snapshot again before posting. |
| 4. Passkey | One tap approves a whole plan. User verification is required, and each passkey challenge works once. |
| 5. Matched previews | X and LinkedIn previews are drawn to match the real sites. A check before approval flags anything that wouldn't post exactly as previewed, with a fix for each. |
| 6. Retry continuity | The same draft keeps its recorded live X posts, even after an edit to the unposted rest. Renewed owner approval continues after the last live post and replies to it; it doesn't repeat the live prefix. X can't edit live posts: changing that prefix is refused unless the owner explicitly approves posting the whole thread again, knowing those posts are already live. The passkey snapshot includes the live IDs, a fingerprint of their approved content and any repost choice. |
| 7. No stale posts | Automatic posting won't start an untouched scheduled job more than 2 hours late. Finishing a partly posted thread and explicitly retrying a held job are separate cases; check their state before asking for a retry. |
| 8. Read-back | After an X post, Flaghand checks normalized text, author, hidden reply mentions, media count, available alt text, reply chain and quote. It does not verify link destinations or media-file identity/bytes. LinkedIn has no read-back. |
| 9. APIs, tokens, log | Official X and LinkedIn APIs through OAuth. Flaghand stores only a hash of each token. Draft changes, approval requests, approvals and job creation identify the actor. Publishing and automatic retries update job state/results, not a complete actor-tagged event trail. Reads and refusals aren't fully logged. |
## What prompt injection can and can't do
Say your agent reads a web page that hides the line "post this link to all your accounts". Its Flaghand token can't
approve or publish that post. You see the post, the account and the time before it can go out, and can decline it.
This isn't protection for everything the agent can access. A compromised agent can still read or change what its
scopes allow, and use its other tools. Keep tokens out of shared files, grant only the scopes it needs, and revoke a
token if you suspect misuse.
## What an agent does with Flaghand
1. Uploads media and creates drafts.
2. Checks each draft and applies the fixes until check passes.
3. Asks you to approve, with a note. You get a link.
4. You approve on your phone or computer with your passkey.
5. Flaghand posts at the approved time, reads X posts back within the limits above, and the agent reports the result.
The [API, CLI and MCP documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) explains the agent workflow.
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
## What still needs you
Read what you approve. Flaghand makes approving fast, not automatic. One tap can approve a week of posts, so give each
plan the look it deserves.
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/linkedin-api-images-and-video.md
# Posting images and video through LinkedIn's API
A LinkedIn media post takes two separate operations: upload the file, then create the post that references it. An
upload URL is where the bytes go; an image or video URN is what goes in the post. Neither an initialized upload nor a
successful file transfer means a post exists.
LinkedIn's own documentation, API version 202610, was **checked on October 26, 2026**. These are developer request
shapes, not a record of a live upload or post. No LinkedIn API call was made for this guide.
For app setup, permissions and the difference between posting as a person and as a Page, start with
[what a personal profile can do through LinkedIn's API](/docs/guides/linkedin-api-personal-profile). For token,
version, duplicate-post and rate-limit failures, use [LinkedIn API posting errors](/docs/guides/linkedin-api-posting-errors).
This guide stays with the media upload itself.
## The short answer
| Media | Register the upload | Transfer | Finish | Put in the post |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| One image | `POST /rest/images?action=initializeUpload` | `PUT` the file to `value.uploadUrl` | No image finalize action; processing is asynchronous | `content.media.id`: the returned `urn:li:image:…` |
| 2 to 20 images | Initialize and upload each image separately | One file per returned image upload URL | Each image must be ready | `content.multiImage.images`: the image URNs, with per-image alt text |
| One video | `POST /rest/videos?action=initializeUpload` | `PUT` each instructed byte range to its upload URL; save each `ETag` | `POST /rest/videos?action=finalizeUpload`, then wait for `AVAILABLE` | `content.media.id`: the returned `urn:li:video:…` |
The [Images API](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/images-api?view=li-lms-2026-10)
and [Videos API](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/videos-api?view=li-lms-2026-10)
replace the old Assets API. New registrations use `initializeUpload`, not `registerUpload`; video finalization uses
`finalizeUpload`, not `completeMultiPartUpload`. Don't mix the old `digitalmediaAsset` URNs with the new image/video fields.
## Before the upload: owner and headers
For a personal-profile post, `owner` is `urn:li:person:MEMBER_ID` for the member whose LinkedIn token you have. The
caller must match the media owner. For multi-image posts, every image must belong to the post's author or organization.
Do not substitute another person's ID or an organization ID just because it appears in an example.
The versioned API requests below go to `https://api.linkedin.com` with these headers; JSON requests also need
`Content-Type: application/json`:
```http
Authorization: Bearer
Linkedin-Version: 202610
X-Restli-Protocol-Version: 2.0.0
```
The returned upload URLs have their own transfer rules. They aren't `/rest` JSON endpoints. Keep tokens and signed
upload URLs out of logs, source control and shared examples.
## Upload an image
**1. Initialize.** Send this JSON to `POST /rest/images?action=initializeUpload`:
```json
{
"initializeUploadRequest": {
"owner": "urn:li:person:MEMBER_ID"
}
}
```
A successful initialization returns 200 and a `value` object containing `image` (the image URN), `uploadUrl` and
`uploadUrlExpiresAt` (milliseconds since the Unix epoch). Save the URN separately from the temporary URL.
**2. Transfer the bytes.** Send the image file as the raw body of a `PUT` to the exact returned `uploadUrl`, not as
base64 JSON or a multipart form. The Images API delegates this step to LinkedIn's
[image upload instructions](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/vector-asset-api?view=li-lms-2026-10#upload-the-image),
which require a valid OAuth token in the `Authorization` header and show a successful 201 response. That image-transfer
requirement is different from the video-part transfer below.
**3. Wait for processing.** There is no `images?action=finalizeUpload` step. The Images API doesn't support
`SYNCHRONOUS_UPLOAD`. An upload can be `WAITING_UPLOAD`, `PROCESSING`, `AVAILABLE` or `PROCESSING_FAILED`; the image
must be ready before you use it in a post.
**The status-read trap:** the documented versioned status route is `GET /rest/images/{encoded image URN}`, but
`w_member_social` is write-only for versioned Images API calls. A token with only that permission cannot make that
GET, even for its own upload. The same Images API page explicitly says `w_member_social` is sufficient for legacy
GET calls to `rest/images`. Don't blindly copy a versioned status loop into a member-write integration, or interpret
its 403 as proof that the upload failed. Check which documented read path your app can use; don't claim readiness
when you couldn't observe it.
## Upload and finalize a video
**1. Initialize with the actual file size.** Send this JSON to `POST /rest/videos?action=initializeUpload`. The size
here is illustrative; replace it with the exact number of bytes in your MP4:
```json
{
"initializeUploadRequest": {
"owner": "urn:li:person:MEMBER_ID",
"fileSizeBytes": 6000000,
"uploadCaptions": false,
"uploadThumbnail": false
}
}
```
The 200 response's `value` contains `video`, `uploadToken`, `uploadUrlsExpireAt` and `uploadInstructions`. Each
instruction gives `uploadUrl`, `firstByte` and `lastByte`. One small video can have one instruction; a larger one has
several. Keep the returned `uploadToken` unchanged, including an empty string if that is what LinkedIn returns.
**2. Upload exactly the instructed ranges.** Both endpoints are inclusive: the bytes for one instruction are
`file[firstByte : lastByte + 1]`, and their length is `lastByte - firstByte + 1`. For example, bytes 0 through 4,194,303
contain 4,194,304 bytes. Follow the returned ranges rather than copying a fixed split command from an older example.
For each instruction, `PUT` those raw bytes to its `uploadUrl` with `Content-Type: application/octet-stream`. LinkedIn's
video transfer example uses the signed URL without an OAuth header; don't reuse the image-upload authorization
header here. A successful video-part upload returns 200 and an `ETag` response header. Save that value as the part ID,
without surrounding HTTP quote delimiters if present. It may be a long opaque signed ID, not a simple hash.
Associate each ETag with its instruction's position. If parts upload concurrently, completion order is not the order
to use in finalization. Don't send the whole file to every URL, calculate your own part IDs or lose the response headers.
**3. Finalize after every part succeeds.** Send `POST /rest/videos?action=finalizeUpload` with the original video URN,
the returned upload token and the ETags in **upload-instruction order**. This two-part example uses placeholders:
```json
{
"finalizeUploadRequest": {
"video": "urn:li:video:VIDEO_ID",
"uploadToken": "RETURNED_UPLOAD_TOKEN",
"uploadedPartIds": ["ETAG_FOR_FIRST_RANGE", "ETAG_FOR_SECOND_RANGE"]
}
}
```
A successful finalize returns 200, not a published post. Even a one-part video needs this step.
**4. Check processing.** Read `GET /rest/videos/{encoded video URN}` with the API headers above. Wait while the status
is `WAITING_UPLOAD` or `PROCESSING`; create the post only when it is `AVAILABLE`. On `PROCESSING_FAILED`, inspect
`processingFailureReason`, fix the underlying problem and upload the corrected file. Media availability is not a
read-back of a published post.
**Optional captions and thumbnail.** Set the corresponding initialize flags to true to request `captionsUploadUrl`
and `thumbnailUploadUrl`. The Videos API documents a multipart SRT caption upload with metadata and a separate raw
thumbnail upload. Don't upload them as extra video parts or include their responses among the video-part ETags.
The docs support one English-language caption file per video; with no custom thumbnail, LinkedIn may generate one.
## Create the post, not another upload
The [Posts API](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/posts-api?view=li-lms-2026-10)
uses `POST /rest/posts`. A single ready image goes in `content.media.id`, with optional `altText`. This is the full
single-image request shape; the IDs are placeholders:
```json
{
"author": "urn:li:person:MEMBER_ID",
"commentary": "A look at what we shipped.",
"visibility": "PUBLIC",
"distribution": {
"feedDistribution": "MAIN_FEED",
"targetEntities": [],
"thirdPartyDistributionChannels": []
},
"content": {
"media": {
"id": "urn:li:image:IMAGE_ID",
"altText": "The new publishing screen with a draft beside its preview."
}
},
"lifecycleState": "PUBLISHED",
"isReshareDisabledByAuthor": false
}
```
For a video post, use that envelope but replace `content` with the video content below. `title` is the video's title;
`commentary` remains the post's text:
```json
{
"media": {
"id": "urn:li:video:VIDEO_ID",
"title": "A walkthrough of the new publishing screen"
}
}
```
For several photos, upload every file through the Images API first. The
[MultiImage API](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/multiimage-post-api?view=li-lms-2026-10)
is a Posts API content shape, not a bulk upload endpoint. Replace `content` with:
```json
{
"multiImage": {
"images": [
{ "id": "urn:li:image:FIRST_IMAGE_ID", "altText": "The draft before editing." },
{ "id": "urn:li:image:SECOND_IMAGE_ID", "altText": "The final post preview." }
]
}
}
```
Supply the images in the intended order, with a separate description for each. MultiImage accepts **2 to 20 images**,
not a mixture of images and video, and only non-sponsored posts. It is distinct from the sponsored `carousel` format
and from a swipeable PDF document post.
A successful post creation returns **201 Created** and the post ID in the **`x-restli-id` response header**. Keep that
receipt. Don't retry post creation merely because the body is empty. A successful upload, a successful finalize and
`AVAILABLE` are earlier milestones, not that receipt.
## Sizes and limits from LinkedIn's API docs
| Item | Documented requirement |
|---|---|
| Image format | JPG, GIF or PNG |
| Image pixel count | Less than 36,152,320 pixels: check width × height, not just file bytes |
| Animated GIF | Up to 250 frames |
| Multi-image post | 2 to 20 images; all owned by the author or organization; non-sponsored only |
| Image alt text | Maximum 4,086 characters; LinkedIn recommends less than 120 |
| Video format | MP4 |
| Video duration | 3 seconds to 30 minutes |
| Video file specification | Between 75 KB and 500 MB in the Videos API's high-level non-CTV specifications |
| Video part boundaries | Use every returned inclusive `firstByte` / `lastByte` range |
| Upload URL lifetime | Read `uploadUrlExpiresAt` for images and `uploadUrlsExpireAt` for video; don't hardcode a lifetime |
**A conflict in the video docs:** the same Videos API page's `fileSizeBytes` schema says a maximum of 5 GB, while its
high-level file specifications say 500 MB. This guide uses the explicit 500 MB file specification, not a promise that
5 GB organic videos will work. Confirm the supported size for your use case before depending on the larger schema
value. Native-app limits and advertising recommendations aren't interchangeable with this API contract. The Images
API page specifies a pixel limit, not a universal image-file MB limit.
## Upload errors worth checking first
| Error or state | Check before retrying |
|---|---|
| 403, image or video resource forbidden | Does the caller match the owner? For versioned image status reads, is this the write-only permission issue above? |
| 400 `INVALID_IMAGE_ID`, `INVALID_VIDEO_ID`, `INVALID_URN_ID` or `INVALID_URN_TYPE` | Use the returned image/video URN, not an upload URL, an old Assets API URN or a post ID |
| 400 `EXPIRED_UPLOAD_URL`, or 401 on an expired video upload URL | Inspect the returned expiry and initialize a fresh upload rather than reusing an expired signed URL |
| `WAITING_UPLOAD` / `MEDIA_ASSET_WAITING_UPLOAD` | Confirm all byte ranges succeeded and the video finalize request used every ETag in instruction order |
| `PROCESSING` | Processing is unfinished; a 200 finalize isn't readiness |
| `PROCESSING_FAILED` / `MEDIA_ASSET_PROCESSING_FAILED` | Check format, size and duration; read a video's `processingFailureReason`. LinkedIn also lists internal errors as possible causes |
LinkedIn documents both the expired-URL 401 in its video schema and 400 `EXPIRED_UPLOAD_URL` in its error table; don't
build a handler that recognizes only one. For failures at the final post call, continue with the
[posting-errors guide](/docs/guides/linkedin-api-posting-errors) rather than repeatedly uploading the same file.
## When an agent prepares the media
In Flaghand, an agent uploads media and prepares the post through the API, CLI or MCP server, then checks it and
requests approval. It never approves, schedules or publishes. Only the owner approves the exact snapshot with a
passkey. LinkedIn post read-back is unavailable with Flaghand's current permissions; an available media asset does
not prove the live post matches the preview.
The [drafts and media reference](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/drafts-and-media) describes Flaghand's own request format and upload
limits, which are separate from LinkedIn's limits above. The [agent guide](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) covers the
upload → draft → check → request-approval loop. This article's `/rest` examples are LinkedIn's direct API format,
not calls that a Flaghand agent token can make. [Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/linkedin-api-personal-profile.md
# Posting to LinkedIn through its API: what a personal profile can do
If you're building an agent that posts to someone's own LinkedIn profile, the permission you can add yourself is
`w_member_social`. It covers more than most developers expect: photos, video, documents and polls as well as text. A
few things people expect it to cover need permissions or partner access that aren't available through that self-serve
product.
Every LinkedIn fact here comes from LinkedIn's own documentation (API version 202610), checked on October 25, 2026.
LinkedIn ships a new API version every month, so check the linked page before you build on it.
## The short answer
- **`w_member_social` covers** text with hashtags and company mentions, one photo, 2 to 20 photos, one video, a
document, a poll, a link card, and a repost with your own text.
- **Comments need `w_member_social_feed`**, including the "link in the first comment" habit.
- **Posting as a company page needs `w_organization_social`** and an admin role on the page.
- **Tagging people needs a member's person ID**, which ordinary apps can't look up.
- **Reading posts back needs `r_member_social`**, which LinkedIn isn't granting.
The last four come with LinkedIn's vetted Community Management API, or not at all.
## Getting w_member_social
Add the [Share on LinkedIn](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/consumer/integrations/self-serve/share-on-linkedin)
product to your app in LinkedIn's Developer Portal. It grants `w_member_social`, "required to create a LinkedIn post on
behalf of the authenticated member", as a self-serve product. To fill in the post's `author` you need the member's person ID,
which [Sign In with LinkedIn using OpenID Connect](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/consumer/integrations/self-serve/sign-in-with-linkedin-v2)
gives you: its `profile` scope returns the member's id, name and photo.
The Share on LinkedIn page still shows the older `ugcPosts` endpoint, and lists a limit of 150 requests per member and
100,000 per app each UTC day. New work should use the
[Posts API](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/posts-api?view=li-lms-2026-10)
(`POST /rest/posts`), which replaces `ugcPosts` and lists `w_member_social` for posting as a member. Its calls need the
`Linkedin-Version` (a month, like `202610`) and `X-Restli-Protocol-Version: 2.0.0` headers.
## What w_member_social covers
Each of these pages lists `w_member_social` for posts by a member. In the
[post schema](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/post-api-schema?view=li-lms-2026-10),
`content` holds one of them (`media`, `multiImage`, `poll` or `article`) next to the text.
| Content | LinkedIn API | What LinkedIn's docs say |
|---|---|---|
| Text | [Posts API](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/posts-api?view=li-lms-2026-10) | `commentary` uses the [little text format](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/little-text-format?view=li-lms-2026-10): reserved characters are escaped with a backslash, `#word` is a hashtag |
| Company mentions | Posts API | `@[Exact Name](urn:li:organization:ID)`. The name must match the page's full name, case sensitive, or it posts as plain text |
| One photo | [Images API](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/images-api?view=li-lms-2026-10) | Upload first, then post its image URN. JPG, GIF or PNG under 36,152,320 pixels; alt text up to 4,086 characters |
| 2 to 20 photos | [MultiImage API](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/multiimage-post-api?view=li-lms-2026-10) | Organic posts only; carousels are for ads |
| Video | [Videos API](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/videos-api?view=li-lms-2026-10) | MP4, 3 seconds to 30 minutes, 75 KB to 500 MB, uploaded in the byte ranges LinkedIn returns. Captions and a thumbnail are optional |
| Document | [Documents API](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/documents-api?view=li-lms-2026-10) | PDF, PPT, PPTX, DOC or DOCX, up to 100 MB and 300 pages. The member who posts must own the upload |
| Poll | [Poll API](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/poll-post-api?view=li-lms-2026-10) | A question of up to 140 characters, 2 to 4 options of up to 30 characters, open for 1, 3, 7 or 14 days. It can't be edited, and the author sees who voted for what |
| Link card | Posts API (`article`) | LinkedIn doesn't read the link for you: you send the title, description and a thumbnail uploaded through the Images API |
| Repost with your text | Posts API (`reshareContext.parent`) | The original post's URN goes in `reshareContext.parent`. The author can turn resharing off, and visibility can still block it |
**Image uploads aren't image reads.** LinkedIn's Images API says `w_member_social` is write-only: a token with only
that permission can't make a versioned `GET /rest/images` call, even for an image it just uploaded. The same page says
`w_member_social` is enough for legacy GET calls to `rest/images`.
**Reposts are writes, too.** The Posts API documents `reshareContext.parent` under the same member-write permission;
it doesn't document an extra `w_member_social_feed` requirement for creating the repost. Checking that the original
post exists and is eligible to reshare is a separate read, with the restrictions below.
## What needs other permissions
| What | Permission | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Comments, including a first comment under your own post | `w_member_social_feed` | Community Management API |
| Reactions and likes | `w_member_social_feed` | Community Management API |
| Posting as a company page | `w_organization_social`, with an administrator, content admin or sponsored-content poster role on the page | Community Management API |
| Tagging people | The member's person ID | Only through limited-access APIs |
| Reading the member's posts, or checking a post before reposting it | `r_member_social` | Closed to new requests |
**Comments.** The Posts, Documents and Poll pages still describe `w_member_social` as "post, comment, and like", but the
[Comments API](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/comments-api?view=li-lms-2026-10)
lists `w_member_social_feed` for a member's comments, and LinkedIn's
[Community Management migration guide](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/community-management-api-migration-guide?view=li-lms-2026-10)
moved creating and deleting comments, likes and reactions from `w_member_social` to `w_member_social_feed` in June 2023.
The docs make no exception for your own post. Plan on `w_member_social_feed`.
**Company pages.** Posting as a page needs `w_organization_social`, and works only for pages where the signed-in member
is an administrator, content admin or direct sponsored content poster. Mentioning a company in a member's post doesn't
need it.
**People.** The little text format accepts `@[Name](urn:li:person:ID)`, so the post itself can carry a person mention.
The catch is the ID. LinkedIn's
[Profile API](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/shared/integrations/people/profile-api) says another member's
person ID is "available only via certain limited access APIs", and each ID works only in the app that received it. The
one documented lookup, the
[People Typeahead API](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/posts-atmention-search-api?view=li-lms-2026-10),
is restricted to select developers, and finds only a company page's followers, for the people who manage that page. Without an ID, a
name posts as plain text.
**Reading posts.** Reading a member's posts takes `r_member_social`. LinkedIn's
[Community Management overview](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/community-management-overview?view=li-lms-2026-10)
calls it "a closed permission" and isn't accepting requests. So an app can post for a member but can't read the post
back. Nor can it read someone else's post first, to check that it exists and allows resharing before reposting it.
**Who can get the Community Management API.** Per LinkedIn's
[app review page](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management-app-review?view=li-lms-2026-10),
it's "only available to registered legal organizations for commercial use cases". LinkedIn verifies your business email
address (personal addresses don't pass), your organization and its website, and a super admin of your company's
LinkedIn Page verifies the app. Its Development tier allows 500 calls per app and 100 per member a day, and Standard
tier needs a screen recording of your app reviewed. LinkedIn asks you to request it from a new app that has no other
API products.
## What Flaghand does with LinkedIn
Flaghand is a publishing desk where AI agents draft posts and only the owner can approve them. Its LinkedIn app uses
Share on LinkedIn and Sign In with OpenID Connect (`openid`, `profile`, `w_member_social`) and the Posts API, version
202610. This table describes its merged implementation on October 26, 2026, checked against its public API description;
it doesn't count features in open pull requests.
| | Flaghand today |
|---|---|
| Text with hashtags | Yes |
| Company mentions | Yes. Each `@[Page]` is linked to the page's exact name and organization URN, which you supply; Flaghand doesn't read LinkedIn pages outside its API |
| Photos | 1 to 20, with alt text |
| Video | One MP4. Flaghand's upload currently accepts files up to 50 MB |
| Link card | Yes, with the title, description and image you set. Not with a video |
| Documents | One PDF, uploaded or exported from Flaghand slides. Up to 300 pages; Flaghand's upload currently accepts files up to 50 MB |
| Polls | Yes. A question of up to 140 characters, 2 to 4 options of up to 30, open for 1, 3, 7 or 14 days, with no photo, video, link card or document beside it |
| First comment | No: it needs `w_member_social_feed` |
| Repost with your text | No: Flaghand checks each draft before approval, and can't check the original post without `r_member_social` |
| Posting as a company page | No |
| Tagging people | No. Check flags a person tag and offers to have you post it yourself in LinkedIn, or to change it to a plain name |
| Reading the post back | No. X posts are read back; LinkedIn posts can't be |
Flaghand waits for each photo to finish processing before it posts, and if LinkedIn refuses the upload or the status
check, it doesn't post.
A post carries photos, one video, one PDF or a link card, not a mixture. Check flags supported validation problems before
approval: length, mentions that aren't linked, people tags, video format, size and length, and PDF format and page count.
An agent drafts through Flaghand's API, CLI or MCP server, and its token can't publish: you approve the exact post with
your passkey, and Flaghand posts it at the approved time. The [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) covers the
API and the MCP server, and the [drafts and media reference](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/drafts-and-media) has the full LinkedIn
format. [How to let an AI agent post on social media safely](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely) has nine checks
to run on any tool, this one included. Flaghand is in early access, and sign-up isn't open yet.
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/linkedin-api-posting-errors.md
# LinkedIn API posting errors, explained
When `POST /rest/posts` fails, LinkedIn answers with an HTTP status and a JSON body holding a `message`, a
`serviceErrorCode` and the `status`. The message is usually specific enough to act on, so read it first.
Every LinkedIn fact here comes from LinkedIn's own documentation (API version 202610), checked on October 26, 2026: its
[error handling](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/shared/api-guide/concepts/error-handling),
[Posts API](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/posts-api?view=li-lms-2026-10),
[sign-in flow](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/shared/authentication/authorization-code-flow),
[refresh tokens](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/shared/authentication/programmatic-refresh-tokens),
[rate limits](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/shared/api-guide/concepts/rate-limits),
[versioning](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/versioning?view=li-lms-2026-10),
[Images API](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/images-api?view=li-lms-2026-10),
[Videos API](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/videos-api?view=li-lms-2026-10)
and [Documents API](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/documents-api?view=li-lms-2026-10)
pages, and the error table of the legacy
[UGC Post API](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/ugc-post-api?view=li-lms-2026-10).
LinkedIn ships a new API version every month, so check the linked page before you build on it.
## The short answer
| LinkedIn answers | What it means | What fixes it |
|---|---|---|
| 401, expired or invalid access token | The token is past its 60 days, or wrong | Refresh it if you have a refresh token; otherwise sign the member in again |
| 401, the token has been revoked | The member removed your app on LinkedIn | Sign the member in again |
| 403 `ACCESS_DENIED` | The token lacks the permission, or the member lacks the page role | Add the permission, then get a new token |
| 422, "Content is a duplicate of …" | An identical post was made recently | Wait 10 minutes, or change the text |
| 422 `UNPROCESSABLE_ENTITY` | The request is well-formed, but its values don't fit together | Read the message and fix the field it names |
| 400 `MISSING_FIELD`, `FIELD_LENGTH_TOO_LONG` and similar | A field is missing, too long or the wrong type | Fix the field the message names |
| 426 | The `Linkedin-Version` header names a retired version | Send a current version |
| 429 | A daily limit | Wait for the reset at midnight UTC |
| Media status `WAITING_UPLOAD` or `PROCESSING` | The file isn't ready yet | Wait until it's `AVAILABLE`, then post |
| Media status `PROCESSING_FAILED` | LinkedIn couldn't process the file | Fix the file and upload it again |
| 500, 503 or 504 | A problem on LinkedIn's side | Check the profile for the post, then retry |
## 401: expired, invalid or revoked tokens
LinkedIn's error handling page lists the 401s:
| Message | What fixes it |
|---|---|
| Unknown authentication schema | Send `Authorization: Bearer ` |
| Empty OAuth2 access token (`EMPTY_ACCESS_TOKEN` in the Posts API) | The header is missing or empty: send the token |
| Invalid access token | Get a correct token through the sign-in flow |
| Expired access token | Refresh the token |
| The token has been revoked | The member revoked your app in their LinkedIn settings, so they sign in again |
How long tokens last:
- **Access tokens last 60 days.** `expires_in` gives the seconds left (5,184,000 for a new token). LinkedIn doesn't issue
longer-lived ones.
- **Refresh tokens are for approved partners.** LinkedIn offers programmatic refresh tokens to approved Marketing
Developer Platform partners. One lasts a year from the first sign-in, and each refresh gives a new 60-day access token
without restarting that year. When it ends, the member signs in again.
- **Without a refresh token**, as with the self-serve Share on LinkedIn product, you renew by sending the member through
sign-in again. LinkedIn skips the consent screen when the member is still signed in to linkedin.com and their current
token hasn't expired, so renew before day 60.
- **New scopes end old tokens.** Requesting a different set of permissions than the member granted before invalidates
every earlier access token.
- **Some token failures are 500s.** LinkedIn says a failure while it verifies the token returns 500, not 401.
## 403: missing permissions
`ACCESS_DENIED` means the token doesn't carry the permission the call needs, or the member doesn't have the role it
needs. LinkedIn's Posts API names the permissions: `w_member_social` to post as the member, `w_organization_social` to
post as a company page, which also takes the member's role on that page. Check, in order:
- **The app has the product.** `w_member_social` comes with the self-serve Share on LinkedIn product;
`w_organization_social` with the vetted Community Management API
([what each permission covers](/docs/guides/linkedin-api-personal-profile)).
- **The member granted it.** A permission has to be in the sign-in request. If you added it after the member signed in,
sign them in again for a token that has it. LinkedIn's checklist asks whether your app changed the scope when it
requested the token.
- **The author is the member.** Post as `urn:li:person:{id}` for the member whose token you use. Their photos, videos and
documents must belong to them too: LinkedIn checks that the caller matches the media's owner.
- **The call isn't a read.** LinkedIn's Images API says `w_member_social` is write-only: a token with only that
permission can't make versioned `GET /rest/images` calls and gets 403 "Accessing this image resource is forbidden".
The Documents API's equivalent is `DOCUMENT_FORBIDDEN`.
LinkedIn also says some restricted APIs answer 404 rather than 403.
## 400 and 422: content errors
The Posts API's error table:
| Status | Code | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | `MISSING_FIELD` | A required field, such as `author`, `visibility`, `distribution` or `lifecycleState`, is missing |
| 400 | `INVALID_VALUE_FOR_FIELD` | A value isn't allowed, such as an unknown `visibility`, `feedDistribution` or `lifecycleState` |
| 400 | `FIELD_LENGTH_TOO_LONG` | `commentary` or another text field is too long |
| 400 | `INVALID_VALUE_BLANK_FIELD` | A required text field is empty |
| 400 | `INVALID_URN_TYPE` or `INVALID_URN_ID` | A URN, often `author` or `content.media.id`, is the wrong type or malformed |
| 409 | `CONFLICT` | A write conflict: retry |
| 422 | `UNPROCESSABLE_ENTITY` | Well-formed, but the values don't fit together |
**Duplicates.** LinkedIn documents the duplicate refusal in its legacy UGC Post API's error table: 422 "Content is a
duplicate of {share or UGC URN}", meaning an exact duplicate of a recently created post. Wait 10 minutes for the
restriction to end, or change the content. The newer Posts API's table lists only the general 422. The same UGC table
lists 422 "Error validating the post", whose message gives the reason, such as a missing or too-long field.
## Media upload states
Photos, videos and documents are uploaded before the post, and each has a status. Post only once it's `AVAILABLE`:
| Status | What it means | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| `WAITING_UPLOAD` | LinkedIn is waiting for the file, or for its upload to finish | Finish the upload; a video also needs its finalize call |
| `PROCESSING` | LinkedIn is still preparing it | Check again later, and don't post yet |
| `AVAILABLE` | It's ready | Post it |
| `PROCESSING_FAILED` | A file too large, an unsupported format or an error on LinkedIn's side | Fix the file and upload it again; a video's `processingFailureReason` says why |
- **Upload URLs expire.** Each upload URL comes with an expiry. Video upload URLs typically last 30 days from the start of
the upload; uploading to an expired one answers 401, and the Videos API also lists 400 `EXPIRED_UPLOAD_URL`.
- **Video parts.** Upload each part to the URLs LinkedIn returns, keep each part's `ETag` response header, then finalize
with the `uploadToken` and those IDs in order.
- **Posting too soon.** A post whose video is still waiting, or failed, is refused with 400 `MEDIA_ASSET_WAITING_UPLOAD`
or `MEDIA_ASSET_PROCESSING_FAILED`.
LinkedIn's limits for each kind:
| Media | LinkedIn's limit |
|---|---|
| Photos | JPG, GIF or PNG, under 36,152,320 pixels; GIFs up to 250 frames |
| Video | MP4, 3 seconds to 30 minutes, 75 KB to 500 MB |
| Documents | PDF, PPT, PPTX, DOC or DOCX, up to 100 MB and 300 pages |
## 429: rate limits
LinkedIn counts calls per 24 hours, resetting at midnight UTC, with one limit for your app and one for each member
using it. It doesn't publish the standard limits: your app's Analytics tab in the Developer Portal shows them for each
endpoint you've called. Its [Share on LinkedIn guide](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/consumer/integrations/self-serve/share-on-linkedin)
lists 150 requests per member and 100,000 per app each UTC day for its legacy `/v2/ugcPosts` flow; it doesn't establish
those as the current `/rest/posts` or media endpoint quotas. The 429's message can read "Resource level throttle limit
for calls to this resource is reached."
- **Wait for the reset,** and cut repeated calls.
- **A share limit.** The legacy UGC Post table also lists 429 "UGC action was blocked because a share limit has been
reached": the author hit a daily limit on posts.
- **Protective 429s.** LinkedIn sometimes returns a 429 to protect its systems; it clears by itself.
- **Alerts.** Developer admins get an email when the app passes 75% of a limit, about one to two hours late.
## 426: an old API version
The versioned `/rest` API needs a `Linkedin-Version: YYYYMM` header. LinkedIn releases a version every month and
supports each for at least a year. A retired version gets 426, and a request without the header gets an error too.
Version 202511 is retired on November 16, 2026. Move the header to a current version, then check what changed since.
## 500, 503 and 504
These are LinkedIn's side: retry with backoff. If 500s keep coming, LinkedIn asks for the request, the response headers
(`x-li-uuid`, `x-li-fabric` and `x-li-request-id`) and your app's client ID in a support request. Before you retry
creating a post, look at the profile: an error answer doesn't prove the post wasn't made.
## Posting through Flaghand
Flaghand's check stops several of these before anyone approves a post: text over 3,000 characters counted the way
LinkedIn's post box counts, more than 20 photos, alt text over 4,086 characters, a video that isn't a single MP4 of 75 KB
to 500 MB and 3 seconds to 30 minutes, a PDF over 300 pages, a company tag without its page's exact name and ID, and a
login that runs out before the post time ([draft rules](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/drafts-and-media)). Flaghand's uploads take
files up to 50 MB.
After the owner approves it:
- **Media waits for `AVAILABLE`.** Flaghand uploads a video or PDF, checks it each minute while LinkedIn processes it,
and posts only once it's `AVAILABLE`. `PROCESSING_FAILED` ends the job without a post.
- **The job shows LinkedIn's answer,** such as `LinkedIn returned HTTP 422:` followed by LinkedIn's message.
- **A 429 fails visibly, without changing the approved time.** It won't be sent again automatically. Choose a new time
after LinkedIn allows requests again and request approval. Flaghand shows a valid reset hint when LinkedIn supplies
one, but it isn't a guarantee of capacity.
- **A 5xx on the post itself isn't resent,** since LinkedIn may have made it. The job asks you to look on the profile
and approve it again only if the post isn't there.
- **A 401 holds the job.** The owner reconnects LinkedIn in Settings, then retries the post in the desk. LinkedIn
logins last 60 days, and the desk flags one a week before it ends.
- **No read-back.** Flaghand can't read LinkedIn posts back, so "posted" means LinkedIn accepted it.
Flaghand's own API answers with its own [error codes](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/errors).
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/social-media-approval-workflow.md
# A social media approval workflow for clients and teams
A social media approval workflow answers three questions: which version is ready, who can authorize it, and what
happens after they say yes. The useful sequence is **draft → review → change → approve → schedule**. A comment that
says “looks good” is not enough if someone can change the post or publish it without the required decision.
For client approval for social posts, keep the copy, media, account, proposed time and feedback together in one review
item. The client should not have to reconstruct the final post from a document, an image folder and a chat thread.
**Checked on October 26, 2026.** The Planable, Later, Hootsuite and Agorapulse descriptions below come from each
vendor's own pages, linked in its section and read on October 26, 2026. This is a public-document guide, not a
hands-on trial. Plans, permissions and editing behavior change; verify the settings in the workspace you will use.
## The five steps
### 1. Draft the complete post
The writer prepares the actual text, media, alt text, destination account and proposed date and time, including the
timezone. An X thread is one review item with all its parts in order. A LinkedIn version is a separate post: approving
an X caption does not automatically approve a rewrite for another network.
Name the authoring account explicitly. “LinkedIn” is not enough when the client has both a personal profile and a
company Page. Include anything someone must do by hand, such as finishing a post in the native app.
### 2. Review what the audience will see
An internal reviewer checks facts, links, spelling, mentions, image crops, accessibility and brand voice. The client
or accountable brand owner checks the message, offer, account and timing. Add a specialist reviewer when the post
actually needs their expertise, rather than routing every ordinary update through every department.
Give concrete feedback on the post itself: “Replace the old launch date in the second image,” not “Please revisit.”
A comment is feedback; approval is a separate decision on the current version.
### 3. Make changes and return the new version
The writer resolves the feedback, keeps the discussion attached to the post and sends the revised version back for
review. If reviewers disagree, the person accountable for the message resolves it before publication.
Decide what your workflow does when approved text, media, account or time changes. If the requirement is approval of
the exact post, the changed version needs a new decision. A product's Approved label does not establish that rule:
some tools let authorized editors change an approved post without restarting the workflow.
### 4. Approve the version, not just the idea
The authorized reviewer approves the final copy, every thread part, media, destination and proposed time. Keep the
reviewer's identity and the decision with that version. For sequential review, an internal sign-off moves the post to
the client; it is not permission to publish before the client stage finishes.
Check whether a tool requires any one approver, every assigned approver or completion of each stage. Also check who
can override the decision. A client review link is useful, but it does not by itself prove publication is blocked.
### 5. Schedule the approved post and follow the result
The authorized publisher or the tool's configured automation schedules only the approved version. Some workflows
schedule automatically at final approval when a time is already set; there is no separate scheduling click.
If approval misses the proposed time, inspect the tool's status before choosing a new time. Do not assume the post
was canceled or that it will never publish late. After publication, record the live link and any failure or mismatch.
A successful approval is not a successful post.
## Who approves what?
Roles can belong to the same person in a small team. The distinction is responsibility, not a requirement to buy more
seats or add more review stages.
| Role | Responsible for | Decision |
|---|---|---|
| Writer or agency producer | Complete draft, assets, platform versions and revisions | Ready for review, not final publishing permission |
| Internal reviewer | Accuracy, voice, links, formatting and accessibility | Internal sign-off or specific changes |
| Client or accountable brand owner | Message, offer, destination account and timing | Final client approval of the current version |
| Specialist, when needed | The particular claim or issue within their remit | Clearance of that issue, not an assumed sign-off on everything |
| Publisher or scheduler | Correct approved version, account, time and live outcome | Release only after the required decisions |
| AI drafting agent | Drafts, uploads, checks and proposed times | Requests approval; does not make the owner's publishing decision |
Before choosing a tool, answer: can the writer publish directly, can an approver edit, can an administrator approve
for someone else, and do edits restart review? Those answers matter more than the number of approval buttons.
## How the common tools do it
### Planable: required and staged approval
Planable's [content approvals guide](https://planable.io/guides/content-approvals-in-planable/) distinguishes No approval,
Optional, Required and Multi-level approval. Optional review does not block publishing. Required, on Pro and
Enterprise, blocks scheduling and publishing until at least one person approves. Multi-level, on Enterprise, moves
through configured stages in order before scheduling is allowed.
Its optional content lock prevents changes after approval until the post is unapproved. Its automatic-scheduling
setting can schedule a dated post when approval completes. Configure those settings to match the version and timing
rule you agreed with the client; do not assume they are enabled.
For roles, client collaboration, plans and agent access, read [Flaghand vs Planable for approval
workflows](/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-planable). Planable is a stronger fit than Flaghand for staged client and legal
review; the full comparison is there rather than repeated here.
### Later: collaboration with publishing exceptions
Later's [approval-workflow page](https://later.com/social-media-approval-workflow/) describes team review and sharing
posts with external reviewers for feedback without a Later account. Collaboration and approval tools start with
Growth. That is useful for gathering client feedback, but not the same as a mandatory gate on every publication.
Its role FAQ says Members cannot approve, yet “their scheduled posts publish regardless of approval status.” It also
says Reviewers' “Publish Without Approval permission can’t be disabled.” If every post needs client sign-off, inspect
those role exceptions before treating a requested review as protection against publication.
### Hootsuite: permission-based approval routing
Hootsuite's [approval setup](https://help.hootsuite.com/s/article/set-up-approvals) documents approval workflows on
Advanced and Enterprise. Limited or Responder permissions, and relevant custom permissions, require approval.
Custom workflows can route reviews sequentially or in parallel; the parallel flow requires every approver to approve.
Its [review instructions](https://help.hootsuite.com/s/article/approve-posts) let authorized reviewers edit, approve
or reject a post. Authors can revise rejected content and resubmit. Once approvals are complete, a post publishes or
stays scheduled as appropriate. If it still needs approval at its publishing time, it goes to the expired queue
instead of publishing.
For clients, distinguish that internal routing from Hootsuite's
[external-approval record](https://help.hootsuite.com/s/article/manage-external-approvals): on Enterprise, a teammate
with Document external approvals permission can mark an external sign-off and enter a note. That article describes
recording a decision obtained elsewhere, not a client clicking a review link in Hootsuite. Do not assume those are
the same workflow.
### Agorapulse: assigned reviewers and shared client calendars
Agorapulse's [submission guide](https://support.agorapulse.com/en/articles/8773562-how-to-send-a-post-for-approval)
lets a post go to internal reviewers or external reviewers connected through a Shared Calendar. Its Everyone must
approve option requires all assigned reviewers. A post lacking the required approval does not publish at its planned
time; the guide warns that approval within five minutes afterward may still let the system retrieve and publish it.
Its [workflow guide](https://support.agorapulse.com/en/articles/10346598-how-to-manage-post-approval-workflows)
places single-step approvals on Professional and Advanced, and multi-step workflows on Custom. Stages can include
internal and external reviewers; an external stage uses reviewers from the same Shared Calendar and cannot mix them
with internal reviewers. Each stage can require all assigned approvals.
The [reviewer guide](https://support.agorapulse.com/en/articles/10353571-how-to-review-a-post-as-an-approver)
explains that external reviewers approve posts assigned to them; requesting changes puts the post in Rejected status
and prevents publication. Owners, Managers and profile Admins can approve for assignees, validating the active stage
in a workflow. The workflow guide also documents an important revision exception: an authorized editor can unlock and
edit a completed post, and it remains Approved. If sign-off must cover the final version, account for that explicitly.
## Approving an AI agent's drafts
Give an agent the writer's job, not the client's decision. It should prepare the post, check it, apply feedback and
request approval for the current version. A proposed time is not a scheduled job. “The AI checked it” is not client
approval, and a prompt telling an agent not to publish is not a server-enforced permission boundary.
Flaghand is built for a person and their agents, not as a replacement for a multi-stage agency review system. The
agent can draft, upload media, check and request approval through the API or MCP. **No API token scope can approve,
schedule or post.** A workspace owner reviews the exact account, content, media and time inside Flaghand and approves
with their passkey. One tap can approve a whole plan. Posting-content changes need a new approval; a successful check
alone authorizes nothing.
Keep the agent's request inside the product's approval flow. If the owner sends it back, the agent reads the note,
revises, checks again and requests approval again. It never approves, schedules, posts or starts a waiting job.
After publication, report the live link and the available verification: Flaghand has limited X read-back, but no
LinkedIn read-back. Neither media processing nor a successful API response proves the live post matches the preview.
For the permission, version-lock and retry checklist, use
[How to let an AI agent post safely](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely). The
[approval contract](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/approvals) gives the exact owner/agent boundary without repeating it here.
## A workflow to agree with your client
Write down the answers alongside the first plan:
- Which account and platform does each post use, and who publishes it?
- Who reviews internally, and who gives the client's final decision?
- Does any one reviewer suffice, must everyone approve, or are stages sequential?
- What changes need reapproval, and does the configured tool enforce that?
- What happens if the review is late, rejected or changed after approval?
- Where will the live link and any publishing failure be recorded?
Choose a collaboration tool for the client review structure you actually need. Choose Flaghand when the central
requirement is that an AI agent prepares posts but cannot authorize publication. Public sign-up isn't open yet;
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule) is the current entry point.
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/social-media-image-sizes.md
# Social media image sizes for X, LinkedIn and TikTok
Make post photos **1080 × 1350 (4:5)** for X and LinkedIn, and **1080 × 1920 (9:16)** for TikTok. For profiles, use
a **1500 × 500** header and a **400 × 400** photo on X, a **1584 × 396** background and a **400 × 400** photo on
LinkedIn, and a square photo on TikTok, which has no banner. The rest of this page has each network's limits, and
what each feed cuts off.
Each network's own help pages and developer docs were **checked on October 26, 2026**. They're linked beside the
claims and under [Sources](#sources). Where a network doesn't document how its feed crops, this page says so and
gives what Flaghand measured on the live site instead, with the date. X's Help Center answered our check with a bot
challenge, so nothing here is quoted from it. X's limits come from its developer docs.
## The sizes at a glance
| | X | LinkedIn | TikTok |
|---|---|---|---|
| Post photo | 1080 × 1350 (4:5) | 1080 × 1350 (4:5) | 1080 × 1920 (9:16) |
| Photos in one post | Up to 4 | Up to 20 | Up to 35 |
| Photo files | JPG, PNG, GIF or WEBP, up to 5 MB | Up to 5 MB; JPG, PNG or GIF through the API | JPEG or WebP, up to 1080p and 20 MB, through the API |
| Documents | None | PDF, PPT, PPTX, DOC or DOCX, up to 100 MB and 300 pages | None; photo posts instead |
| Profile photo | 400 × 400, shown as a circle | 400 × 400 to 7680 × 4320, PNG or JPG, up to 8 MB | At least 20 × 20, shown as a circle |
| Banner | 1500 × 500 (3:1) | 1584 × 396 (4:1); a Page's cover is 1512 × 256 | None |
The post photo shapes, X's two profile sizes and TikTok's 9:16 are this page's picks, from what each feed draws
(below). Every other number is the network's own.
The free [image size checker](/image-size-checker) draws your own photos, banner and profile photo the way X and
LinkedIn lay them out, on desktop and on a phone, and says what's cut. Nothing is uploaded.
## X
### Post photos
- **Up to 4 photos, 1 animated GIF or 1 video** in a post
([X's media docs](https://docs.x.com/x-api/media/introduction)).
- **JPG, PNG, GIF or WEBP, up to 5 MB.** An animated GIF can be 15 MB. X's
[media best practices](https://docs.x.com/x-api/media/quickstart/best-practices) add that a GIF does best at
1280 × 1080 or smaller and 350 frames or fewer.
- **Alt text** is up to 1,000 characters
([media metadata](https://docs.x.com/x-api/media/create-media-metadata)).
- X has no document posts. Several photos in one post are its carousel.
### How X crops photos in the timeline
X's docs don't say how the timeline crops. This is what x.com drew when Flaghand measured it for its previews, the
same layout the image size checker draws:
- **One photo is shown whole**, at its own shape across the column. A photo taller than the column allows is shown
narrower, not cut.
- **Two photos** sit side by side, each whole, when they fit the row at about 200 px tall on desktop. Otherwise, and
for 3 or 4 photos, the set scrolls sideways at one height.
- **In a set, square and taller photos keep their shape.** A photo wider than 20:17 (about 1.18:1) can lose its sides.
So a 4:5 or square photo is never cut, alone or in a set. Check yours in the
[image size checker](/image-size-checker#use=post).
### Profile photo and header
X's developer docs don't list profile photo or header sizes, and its Help Center didn't load for our check. What x.com draws, measured on October 25, 2026 at 600 px (desktop) and 390 px (an iPhone's width):
- **The header spans the profile column at 3:1.** A 1500 × 500 image is 3:1 at 2.5 times the 600 px desktop column.
- **The profile photo is a circle** up to 136 px across, 16 px from the left, its centre on the header's bottom edge.
It covers part of the header's bottom left, so keep text and faces out of that corner.
- **Use 400 × 400 for the photo**, and keep what matters away from its corners, which the circle hides.
The checker's [profile view](/image-size-checker#use=profile) shows your header and photo together on desktop and on a
phone.
## LinkedIn
### Post photos
From LinkedIn's help page [Share photos on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a527229):
- **Up to 20 photos** in a post, and **5 MB** a photo.
- **At least 552 × 276**; LinkedIn recommends 1080 px wide.
- **3:1 to 4:5.** A photo wider than 3:1 is centred and cropped to fit.
- A post has a link or photos, not both. Photos can't be resized or edited after posting.
LinkedIn's [Images API](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/images-api?view=li-lms-2026-10)
takes **JPG, GIF and PNG** under 36,152,320 pixels, a GIF up to 250 frames, and alt text up to 4,086 characters
(LinkedIn recommends under 120). Its
[MultiImage API](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/multiimage-post-api?view=li-lms-2026-10)
takes 2 to 20 images.
### How LinkedIn crops in the feed
- **One photo** shows across the post at its own shape, never taller than 4:5. A taller photo is shown whole in a
4:5 box, with bars at its sides. That's the 4:5 limit in LinkedIn's help, as Flaghand's measured preview draws it.
- **Several photos:** LinkedIn's help, last updated two years ago, describes a grid. Two photos sit side by side,
keeping their shapes. With 3 or more, the first photo sets the layout: a landscape one goes on top with the rest
below, and a portrait or square one goes on the left with the rest stacked beside it. The whole set is at most 4:5,
and photos in the bottom row can be cropped.
- **What Flaghand measured on linkedin.com** for its previews, and the checker draws, is different: several photos
scroll sideways as frames of one size, each photo cut to fill its frame.
Either way, a photo alone is the only one sure to be shown whole. See yours in the
[image size checker](/image-size-checker#use=post) or the [LinkedIn post preview](/linkedin-post-preview).
### Documents: LinkedIn's carousels
A swipeable LinkedIn carousel is a document post: one file whose pages people swipe through. From LinkedIn's
[document help](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a518909) and its
[document FAQ](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a523054):
- **PDF, PPT, PPTX, DOC or DOCX**, up to **100 MB** and **300 pages**. LinkedIn suggests converting to PDF for the best
quality.
- **One document a post**, with a title. You can edit the title and the post's text later, not the file.
- **Every page the same size.** A PDF with pages of different sizes must be fit to one size, and a layered PDF
flattened. Videos and animations show as still images.
- People who can see the post can download the document as a PDF.
LinkedIn's help gives no page size. Its photo rules stop at 4:5, so 1080 × 1350 pages match the tallest shape it
shows a photo. The [Documents API](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/documents-api?view=li-lms-2026-10)
has the same file types and limits.
### Profile photo and background
From LinkedIn's help page
[Photo won't upload to your profile](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a549049):
- **Profile photo:** between 400 × 400 and 7680 × 4320.
- **Background photo:** 1584 × 396 is recommended.
- **PNG or JPG, up to 8 MB.** LinkedIn's help says it doesn't take GIFs.
LinkedIn shows the background at 4:1 across the top of the profile, with the round profile photo over its left side.
On an iPhone the photo covers most of the background's height there. Those positions come from LinkedIn's own
screenshots of its apps. Keep the background's text to its right and centre. Try both in the checker's
[profile view](/image-size-checker#use=profile).
**LinkedIn Pages** have their own sizes
([Page image specifications](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a563309), updated two months ago): a
**400 × 400** logo (at least 268 × 268) and a **1512 × 256** cover, PNG or JPEG, up to **3 MB**. The cover can be
trimmed to fit the screen, so keep key details away from its edges, especially the lower right. The logo is shown on
light and dark backgrounds, and a transparent one on white. The checker draws personal profiles, not Pages.
## TikTok
### Photo posts: TikTok's carousels
TikTok's Help Center has no article on photo sizes; its search found none on October 26. The limits below are from
TikTok's developer docs for its Content Posting API, which is how apps post for you:
- **Up to 35 photos** in a post
([photo post reference](https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/content-posting-api-reference-photo-post)).
- **JPEG or WebP, up to 1080p and 20 MB each**
([media transfer guide](https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/content-posting-api-media-transfer-guide)). A PNG has
to be converted first.
### How TikTok shows photos
TikTok's docs don't say. What Flaghand measured, logged out on tiktok.com on October 24, 2026:
- **The desktop feed is a 9:16 card** on black. A photo of another shape gets black bars rather than being cut.
Opened on its own page, the card takes the photos' shape instead.
- **In TikTok's phone layout** (its mobile site at an iPhone's 390 px), a photo spans the screen's width at its own
shape: a 2:3 photo is 390 × 585, and a 9:16 one fills 390 × 693.
- **The caption, @handle and buttons sit over the photo**: the buttons up the right edge, the text at the bottom
left. Keep words and faces out of those areas.
So **1080 × 1920** is the size to make: the feed's own 9:16 shape, at the largest size 1080p allows. The free
[TikTok slideshow maker](/tiktok-slideshow-maker) puts text on photos and saves each slide at 1080 × 1920 as a PNG,
ready to post from your phone. Convert them to JPEG or WebP if an app will post them through the API.
### Profile photo
TikTok's [help page on adding a profile photo](https://www.tiktok.com/support/faq_detail?id=7581821549855038008) says a
photo must be at least 20 × 20 pixels, and that you crop it after choosing it. A profile video replaces the photo. TikTok
shows the photo as a circle. It gives no recommended size, so the same 400 × 400 square you use elsewhere works.
TikTok profiles have no banner.
## Ads use their own specs
Paid posts follow each network's ad specs, not the organic sizes above:
- **LinkedIn single image ads**
([LinkedIn's ad specs](https://www.linkedin.com/help/lms/answer/a426534)): JPG, PNG or GIF up to 5 MB, at
1200 × 628 (1.91:1), 1200 × 1200 (1:1) or 720 × 900 (4:5). Vertical images serve only on mobile.
- **TikTok carousel ads**
([TikTok's ad specs](https://ads.tiktok.com/help/article/specifications-for-carousel-ads)): a standard carousel takes
2 to 35 images, JPG or PNG, at 1200 × 628, 640 × 640 or 720 × 1280.
- **X ad card images** ([X's Ads API docs](https://docs.x.com/x-ads-api/creatives)): at least 800 px wide and up to
3 MB, as BMP, JPEG or PNG, at 1:1 or 1.91:1 for a website card. X's business site, which has its other ad specs,
didn't load for our check.
## What Flaghand adds
Flaghand is a publishing desk where your AI agent drafts posts and you approve them. It shows each X and LinkedIn post
the way the feed lays it out, with the same renderers as the image size checker, and its check before approval flags
anything that wouldn't post exactly as previewed, media counts and sizes included. It takes JPEG, PNG, WebP and GIF
photos, and PDF documents for LinkedIn, up to 50 MB. A document's pages are previewed before you approve it.
No agent token can approve, schedule or post: you approve the exact post in the desk with a passkey. Flaghand doesn't
offer TikTok scheduling yet. Every media field is in Flaghand's
[drafts and media docs](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/drafts-and-media). Sign-up isn't open yet: [get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
## Sources
All read on October 26, 2026. X's Help Center and business site answered with a bot check, which wasn't bypassed.
- X: [media](https://docs.x.com/x-api/media/introduction),
[media best practices](https://docs.x.com/x-api/media/quickstart/best-practices),
[media metadata (alt text)](https://docs.x.com/x-api/media/create-media-metadata),
[Ads API creatives](https://docs.x.com/x-ads-api/creatives)
- LinkedIn Help: [share photos](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a527229),
[profile photo upload](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a549049),
[documents](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a518909),
[document FAQ](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a523054),
[Page images](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a563309),
[single image ads](https://www.linkedin.com/help/lms/answer/a426534)
- LinkedIn API, version 202610:
[Images](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/images-api?view=li-lms-2026-10),
[MultiImage](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/multiimage-post-api?view=li-lms-2026-10),
[Documents](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/documents-api?view=li-lms-2026-10)
- TikTok: [adding a profile photo](https://www.tiktok.com/support/faq_detail?id=7581821549855038008),
[photo post reference](https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/content-posting-api-reference-photo-post),
[media transfer guide](https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/content-posting-api-media-transfer-guide),
[carousel ad specs](https://ads.tiktok.com/help/article/specifications-for-carousel-ads)
- Flaghand's measurements: x.com's profile on October 25, 2026, tiktok.com's feed and phone layout on October 24,
2026, and the X and LinkedIn post layouts its previews and the image size checker draw.
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/tiktok-content-posting-api.md
# TikTok's Content Posting API, explained
TikTok's Content Posting API has two routes to a finished post. **Upload** sends a draft to the creator's TikTok
inbox; they finish and publish it in the app. **Direct Post** publishes from your integration without that in-app
step. An upload is not a published post, and permission to test Direct Post is not permission to publish publicly.
TikTok's developer documentation was checked on October 26, 2026. The linked pages are the source for TikTok's rules
below; the final section separately describes Flaghand's merged implementation on that date.
## Inbox upload or Direct Post?
Both need a registered TikTok developer app, approval for the relevant scope, and the creator's authorization of
that scope. The scope names say `video`, but they cover photos too.
| | Inbox upload | Direct Post |
|---|---|---|
| User-granted scope | `video.upload` | `video.publish` |
| Video initialization | `POST /v2/post/publish/inbox/video/init/` | `POST /v2/post/publish/video/init/` |
| Photo initialization | `POST /v2/post/publish/content/init/` with `post_mode: "MEDIA_UPLOAD"` and `media_type: "PHOTO"` | The same endpoint with `post_mode: "DIRECT_POST"` and `media_type: "PHOTO"` |
| Creator's final step | Open the inbox notification, edit and publish in TikTok | Choose posting settings and consent in the integration before it sends the post |
| Result to distinguish | `SEND_TO_USER_INBOX`: delivered for the creator to finish | `PUBLISH_COMPLETE`: publication finished, not necessarily public visibility |
TikTok's [upload guide](https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/content-posting-api-get-started-upload-content) and
[Direct Post guide](https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/content-posting-api-get-started) document these as different
flows, not two names for automatic publishing.
For video, `FILE_UPLOAD` means sending bytes with `PUT` to the returned upload URL. `PULL_FROM_URL` means TikTok
fetches a hosted video. Photos use `PULL_FROM_URL` only. The
[sharing guidelines](https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/content-sharing-guidelines) require URL pull for media already
on your server; file upload is for video on the user's device. Hosted media needs an ownership-verified domain or URL
prefix. An initialization response's `publish_id` identifies the attempt; it isn't proof that the post is live.
Follow it with `POST /v2/post/publish/status/fetch/`. TikTok's
[status reference](https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/content-posting-api-reference-get-video-status) distinguishes
processing, inbox delivery, publication and failure. For an inbox upload, `PUBLISH_COMPLETE` means the creator went on
to publish in TikTok. The status field `publicaly_available_post_id` supplies IDs only after public publication and
moderation, not for private posts.
## What an unaudited app can do
TikTok's [Direct Post guidelines](https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/content-sharing-guidelines) impose three
restrictions before the client passes its audit:
- **At most 5 posting users within a 24-hour window.** That's users, not 5 posts per user.
- **Each posting account must be private at posting time.** Choosing Only me on a public account isn't enough.
- **Every Direct Post must use `SELF_ONLY`**, TikTok's Only me visibility.
These are Direct Post restrictions. They don't turn the separate inbox-upload flow into a private published post:
that flow hands a draft to its creator, who makes the final choices in TikTok. Inbox upload still needs its own app
and user authorization and is subject to the upload limits below.
Removing Direct Post's private-only restriction requires a TikTok audit. Passing an audit doesn't remove the
creator's privacy settings or TikTok's posting limits. Nor does it automatically make old Only me posts public:
TikTok says the creator must make the account public, then change each post's visibility to Everyone.
## What the audit asks of your integration
The [Content Sharing Guidelines](https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/content-sharing-guidelines) are the Direct Post
integration checklist, not just a media-format reference:
- **A product for a broad audience of creators.** A private utility for accounts you or your team manage isn't an
acceptable use case. Neither is copying arbitrary content from other platforms to TikTok. Creators should publish
their own original work.
- **An account-aware posting screen.** Show the destination nickname, a media preview and editable text. Fetch current
creator info, let the creator choose visibility with no default, and respect their available interaction settings.
- **Creator control and consent.** Comments, Duet and Stitch start off; unavailable controls are disabled. Photos have
comments, not Duet or Stitch. Explain processing time and obtain express consent before sending media to TikTok.
- **Commercial disclosure.** The disclosure toggle starts off. If enabled, the creator chooses their own brand,
third-party branded content, or both. Show the appropriate Promotional content or Paid partnership notice; branded
content cannot use private visibility. Include TikTok's Music Usage Confirmation and, where required, Branded
Content Policy declaration before the publishing control.
- **No promotional additions to the media.** Don't insert your app's watermark, logo or promotional text into the
creator's post. Report the eventual result, not just a successful upload request.
TikTok's separate [app review guidelines](https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/app-review-guidelines) also ask for a
finished product, a publicly accessible website with working Privacy Policy and Terms links, correct web redirect
configuration, and an explanation of every requested product and scope. The submission includes 1 to 5 end-to-end
demo videos, each no larger than 50 MB, showing the actual integration and its user actions. For an app not previously
approved, the recording must demonstrate the integration using the Developer Portal sandbox. General app review and
the Direct Post audit aren't interchangeable; requesting a scope or submitting a recording isn't audit approval.
## Photo posts: what the API accepts
A photo slideshow is a `PHOTO` request, not a video assembled from images. TikTok's
[photo reference](https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/content-posting-api-reference-photo-post) supports both
`MEDIA_UPLOAD` and `DIRECT_POST`. Inbox photo upload requires TikTok app version 31.8 or later.
| Photo-post field | TikTok's documented constraint |
|---|---|
| `photo_images` | Up to 35 image URLs, in order |
| Image bytes | WebP or JPEG, up to 20 MB per image |
| Resolution | The media guide says "Maximum 1080p"; it doesn't specify a universal width-by-height pair |
| `title` | Up to 90 |
| `description` | Up to 4,000 |
| `photo_cover_index` | Required, zero-based: 0 selects the first image |
| Transfer | `PULL_FROM_URL` only, from an ownership-verified domain or URL prefix |
TikTok describes the title and description lengths as "UTF-16 runes"; don't assume a visible emoji always counts as
one. The [media transfer guide](https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/content-posting-api-media-transfer-guide) supplies
the image format, size and resolution rules. It requires HTTPS without redirects and a URL that stays accessible
while TikTok downloads. A PNG accepted by your own app must be converted to a supported format before TikTok pulls it.
The API doesn't make every format accepted by TikTok's phone picker an accepted API format.
## creator_info: ask the account, don't guess
Before rendering the Direct Post screen, call
[`POST /v2/post/publish/creator_info/query/`](https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/content-posting-api-reference-query-creator-info)
with the user's `video.publish` token. Use a fresh response each time the screen opens, not a shared set of settings
for every account.
It returns the creator's username, nickname and avatar, `privacy_level_options`, `comment_disabled`, `duet_disabled`,
`stitch_disabled`, and `max_video_post_duration_sec`. Populate visibility from that returned list, with nothing
preselected. Disable interactions TikTok disallows, and reject a video longer than the returned duration. Photo-only
integrations can ignore Duet, Stitch and the video-duration field. The example's 300 seconds isn't a universal limit.
Check `error.code`, even for HTTP 200: only `ok` is success. Creator-info errors can mean the creator cannot post,
has reached their daily allowance, or the client has reached its active-creator cap. There is no numeric
remaining-posts counter or quota-reset timestamp in this response.
## Posting limits are not request-rate limits
These are TikTok's documented limits, not extra limits added by Flaghand:
| Limit | What TikTok documents |
|---|---|
| Unaudited Direct Post users | Up to 5 users within 24 hours |
| Active Direct Post creators per client | A 24-hour cap based on the estimate submitted for audit; no single universal number |
| Direct Posts per creator | Typically around 15 posts within 24 hours, variable by creator and shared across all Direct Post clients |
| Pending inbox shares | At most 5 pending shares within any 24-hour period, per the upload-video reference; not a completed-post allowance |
| Video initialization, either flow | 6 requests per minute per user access token |
| Photo initialization | 6 requests per minute per user access token |
| Creator-info query | 20 requests per minute per user access token |
| Status fetch | 30 requests per 60 seconds per user access token |
Sources: [sharing guidelines](https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/content-sharing-guidelines),
[upload-video reference](https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/content-posting-api-reference-upload-video),
[Direct Post video reference](https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/content-posting-api-reference-direct-post),
[photo reference](https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/content-posting-api-reference-photo-post), and the creator-info
and status references above. The photo reference also lists `spam_risk_too_many_pending_share`, but describes its
five-pending-share limit in terms of videos; it doesn't publish a separate photo allowance.
Don't promise every creator 15 posts, interpret 6 requests per minute as 6 allowed posts, or treat a second app as a
fresh creator allowance. Handle `spam_risk_too_many_posts`, `reached_active_user_cap`,
`spam_risk_too_many_pending_share` and `rate_limit_exceeded` as different conditions. Keep the attempt's publish ID
and check its status before considering a resend: a lost response doesn't prove TikTok received nothing.
## What Flaghand does today
As of October 26, 2026, **Flaghand's TikTok inbox drafts are in beta. Public Direct Post waits for TikTok's audit.**
This describes merged code and the [published API](https://app.flaghand.com/api/v1/openapi.json), not proposed features
or open pull requests. Private Direct Post testing remains subject to the unaudited restrictions above; it isn't
public publishing access or a promise of audit approval.
- **Prepare photos or video.** The API, CLI and MCP accept `tiktok_photo` and `tiktok_video` drafts. Photo posts can
use uploaded images or a slideshow drawn by Flaghand's shared renderer. The free
[TikTok slideshow maker](/tiktok-slideshow-maker) exports images; it doesn't publish to TikTok.
- **Send to the inbox, with the owner's approval.** `post_mode: "inbox"` requests this route; it isn't the draft's
default. The agent drafts, uploads, checks and requests approval. Only the owner approves the exact snapshot in
Flaghand with their passkey before Flaghand sends anything. The creator then finishes and publishes in TikTok.
- **Report the handoff honestly.** An `inbox` job means delivered to the TikTok inbox, not published. A `processing`
job isn't finished. Flaghand follows TikTok's status; that is not a comparison of a live TikTok post against the
approved preview.
- **Keep public Direct Post separate.** The merged implementation has owner-selected privacy and interactions,
disclosure, consent and fresh creator-info checks. Its configured audit posture is still `unaudited`: private
accounts and `SELF_ONLY` only. It doesn't offer public Direct Post before the audit, or TikTok scheduling.
[Flaghand and TikTok](/tiktok) explains the connection, permissions and data handling. The
[TikTok API reference](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/tiktok) and [slideshow reference](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/slideshows) document the merged
formats. Agent tokens cannot approve, schedule or post; the [agent guide](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) explains that boundary.
Flaghand is in early access. [Get access](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/x-api-and-mcp-servers-for-ai-agents.md
# Posting to X from an AI agent: the APIs and MCP servers, compared
An AI agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor or your own) can reach X through X's own API, X's own MCP server, or
the API or MCP server of a tool that posts for you: Typefully, Buffer, Postiz or Flaghand. They differ in what the
agent can do and, above all, in whether a person sees the post before it goes live.
Checked on October 25, 2026, from each product's own pages, linked under [Sources](#sources). Prices and features
change, so check those pages before you choose.
## The short answer
- **X's API, used directly**, charges per call without another scheduler's subscription. You build the rest. The
agent's token posts the moment it calls. There are no drafts, no scheduling and no approval unless you build them.
- **X's MCP server** at `api.x.com/mcp` searches and reads X, manages bookmarks and publishes Articles. Its page lists
no tool that creates a post. X's open-source xmcp, which you run yourself, does.
- **Typefully, Buffer and Postiz** give the agent drafts, a queue, threads and media on many networks, and Typefully and
Buffer have free plans. The credential you give the agent can publish, unless you set it up as a separate user
without publish rights (Typefully Business, Buffer Team).
- **Flaghand** is for an agent that writes your posts while nothing goes out until you approve the exact post with your
passkey. No agent credential can publish, on any plan.
## What the agent can do
| | Drafts | Schedule | Post at once | Threads | Media |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| X API | No | No | Yes | Reply to each part in turn | Up to 4 photos, 1 GIF or 1 video |
| X MCP, hosted | Articles only | No | Articles only | No | Not listed |
| xmcp, self-hosted | No | No | Yes | Reply to each part in turn | Upload tools |
| Typefully | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Buffer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Postiz | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, media on every part | Yes |
| Flaghand | Yes | Proposes a time; you approve it | No | Yes, one draft | Up to 4 per post, with alt text |
## Who decides, how it signs in, what it costs
| | A person approves before it posts? | How the agent signs in | Public price |
|---|---|---|---|
| X API | No | Your own X developer app, then OAuth for the account | Pay per use: $0.015 a post, $0.200 with a link |
| X MCP, hosted | No | X's `xurl` bridge with your own X app's keys | Pay per use, on your app |
| xmcp, self-hosted | No | Your own X app's keys, in your `.env` | Pay per use, on your app |
| Typefully | Only if the agent's user can't publish (Business plan) | OAuth or API key; the key has its creator's access | Free; Creator $99 a year; Business from $18 a month per social set, billed yearly |
| Buffer | Only for a Needs Approval member (Team plan) | OAuth or API key; reaches your whole account | Free; Essentials from $6, Team from $12 a month per channel |
| Postiz | No: approval is a conversation, not a state | API key, in a header or the URL, or OAuth token | $29 to $99 a month; 7-day trial; open source to self-host |
| Flaghand | Always, by the owner's passkey | OAuth (Claude, ChatGPT) or a draft-only API token | Early access; sign-up isn't open yet |
## X's API, used directly
An agent posts with `POST /2/tweets` using a user token: OAuth 2.0 with the `tweet.write` scope (plus `tweet.read` and
`users.read`) or OAuth 1.0a. The post goes live at once. A thread is several calls, each a reply to the post before
it. Media is uploaded first (`media.write`), then attached: up to 4 photos, 1 animated GIF or 1 video.
X's API reference has no draft or schedule call for posts (Articles have drafts). Scheduled posts live in X's separate
Ads API, for ads accounts. Nothing asks a person first: whoever holds the token can post.
You need your own developer app, and each account authorizes it. X bills pay per use from credits you buy: $0.015 a
post and $0.200 for a post with a link, $0.005 to add alt text.
**Where it's better:** no added scheduler subscription, every feature X's API has (polls, reply settings, Communities,
search, analytics), and no other company holding your account's token. For light use, a competitor's free plan can cost
less than paying X directly.
## X's MCP server
X hosts an MCP server at `https://api.x.com/mcp`. Its page lists what the model can do: fetch posts and who liked,
reposted or quoted them, search posts, users and news, read timelines and mentions, manage bookmarks, get trends, and
"create draft Articles and publish them". It lists no tool that creates a post, and the OAuth scopes the server lists
don't include `tweet.write`, which X's create-post endpoint requires.
To sign in as you, you run X's `xurl mcp` bridge on your machine with your own X app's client ID and secret; it logs in
once in your browser and refreshes the token. An app-only bearer token works without the bridge, for reads only. X's
troubleshooting table has you move the app to pay per use.
X's open-source [xmcp](https://github.com/xdevplatform/xmcp), which you run yourself in Python, turns X's API into
tools, including `createPosts`, media upload and `deletePosts`. `X_API_TOOL_ALLOWLIST` chooses which tools load. Like
the API, it posts at once. Your MCP client may ask you before a tool runs; X doesn't.
**Where it's better:** far more reading than any tool here: full-archive search, timelines, trends, news and
bookmarks, for an agent that researches before it writes.
## Typefully
Typefully's API and MCP server (`https://mcp.typefully.com/mcp`, OAuth or API key) create drafts and threads, upload
media, schedule, and publish: `"publish_at": "now"` publishes at once. There's an Agent Skill for coding agents, and
webhooks.
API keys "inherit the same permissions as the user who created them". Creating a draft needs write access; scheduling
or publishing needs publish access. Free and Creator have one user, so the agent's key can publish. On Business, a key
made by a separate Write-role user can't. `plan_at` puts a draft on the calendar, where it "never auto-publishes until
confirmed".
**Where it's better:** a free plan with the API and MCP (10 posts a month, 1 social set), X, LinkedIn, Threads,
Bluesky, Mastodon and Substack, X analytics and AI writing. More in
[Flaghand vs Typefully](/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-typefully).
## Buffer
Buffer's MCP server (`https://mcp.buffer.com/mcp`, OAuth) has `create_post`, which "schedules or publishes a post":
to the queue, at a set time, next, or now (`shareNow`), or as a draft. X threads go in `metadata.twitter.thread`, and
each part can carry media. The API key "acts on behalf of your account only" and reaches every organization and channel
in it. Buffer's own advice is to "leave the approval prompts on": your AI app's prompts are the check.
On the Team plan, posts by a Needs Approval member "will always be saved as drafts awaiting approval", including
through the API and the MCP server. The account owner or a Full Access member approves them into the queue. Connect the
agent as that member and Buffer's server holds its posts for you.
**Where it's better:** a free plan with the API (3 channels, 10 scheduled posts per channel, 3,000 requests a month),
far more networks (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest and more), and a team approval role on Team.
## Postiz
Postiz's MCP server (`https://mcp.postiz.com/mcp`) has 13 tools; `schedulePostTool` schedules, drafts or publishes at
once. The API takes `type` `now`, `schedule` or `draft`. X threads carry images on every part. It signs in with an API
key, as a bearer token or in the URL, or with an OAuth token that doesn't expire.
Postiz's preview links collect comments, but in its own words "approval is a conversation, not a state: there is no
'approved' flag that blocks publishing".
**Where it's better:** open source (AGPL-3.0) to self-host without plan limits, 34 platforms, AI images and video, and
unlimited posts on every paid plan. More in [Flaghand vs Postiz](/docs/guides/flaghand-vs-postiz).
## Flaghand
An agent drafts X posts and threads (a thread is one draft, up to 25 posts), uploads images and video with alt text,
checks each draft and proposes a time. One call, `POST …/posts`, drafts, checks and requests approval for a whole
plan. Agents connect to Flaghand's MCP server at `/mcp` by OAuth (Claude, ChatGPT) or with a workspace API token.
No token scope can approve, schedule or post, on any plan. Those routes refuse every token and accept only an owner of
the workspace, signed in with a passkey. Apps that connect by OAuth get a draft-only token: `read`, `drafts`, `media`
and `request-approval`.
Approving freezes each post into a snapshot (the account, the time, the text, every media file and its alt text, and
the exact request), hashed with SHA-256 and signed with your passkey. Any change needs a new approval, and the
scheduler checks the signed snapshot again right before posting. Afterwards Flaghand reads each X post back and
compares it with what you approved: normalized text, author, hidden reply mentions, media count, available alt text,
reply chain and quote. It doesn't verify link destinations or the media files themselves. Flaghand prepays X's API, so
you don't buy X credits.
**Where it does less:** X and LinkedIn personal profiles only, no free plan, no AI writing of its own (your agent
writes), and it's in early access: sign-up isn't open yet. An agent can't post anything urgent without you.
## Which to pick
- Your agent researches X (search, trends, bookmarks): **X's MCP server**.
- You're building your own product and want every X feature at cost: **X's API**.
- You want many networks and a writer's tools, and you're happy for the agent to publish: **Typefully**, **Buffer** or
**Postiz**. Typefully and Buffer also offer free plans; Postiz's hosted plans are paid.
- Your agent writes the posts and you want the server to refuse anything you haven't approved: **Flaghand**, or a
Needs Approval member on **Buffer Team**.
[How to let an AI agent post on social media safely](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely) has nine checks to run
on any of these. Flaghand's [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) covers its API and MCP server.
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
## Sources
All read on October 25, 2026.
- X: [MCP servers](https://docs.x.com/tools/mcp), [create post](https://docs.x.com/x-api/posts/create-post),
[pricing](https://docs.x.com/x-api/getting-started/pricing), [xmcp](https://github.com/xdevplatform/xmcp)
- Typefully: [pricing](https://typefully.com/pricing), [API reference](https://typefully.com/docs/api),
[AI agents](https://typefully.com/ai-agents)
- Buffer: [pricing](https://buffer.com/pricing), [MCP server](https://developers.buffer.com/guides/integrations/mcp.html),
[API keys](https://developers.buffer.com/guides/authentication.html),
[approvals](https://support.buffer.com/articles/managing-and-approving-draft-posts-57li7M8tDA)
- Postiz: [pricing](https://postiz.com/pricing), [MCP](https://docs.postiz.com/mcp/introduction),
[approvals](https://docs.postiz.com/general/approvals), [plans](https://docs.postiz.com/cloud/plans)
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/x-api-oauth-2-pkce.md
# X API OAuth 2.0 with PKCE, explained
To post for someone through X's API, your app needs a **user access token** for their account. OAuth 2.0's
authorization-code flow with PKCE gets that token after they authorize your app. An app-only bearer token cannot post
for a user, even though both tokens are sent in an `Authorization: Bearer …` header.
Checked on October 26, 2026 against X's own documentation, linked under [Sources](#sources), and Flaghand's current
implementation. No live X API calls were made. The examples below are request shapes, not captured credentials or
responses; don't paste real tokens, authorization codes or client secrets into shared logs.
## Pick the right client type
Enable OAuth 2.0 in your app's X Developer Console settings and register the callback URL before starting.
| Your app | Client type | At the token endpoint |
|---|---|---|
| Native app or browser-only single-page app | Public: it cannot keep a client secret | Send `client_id` in the form body; no client secret |
| Web app with a backend that can protect credentials | Confidential | Authenticate with HTTP Basic using the OAuth 2.0 Client ID and Client Secret |
PKCE is still used by a confidential client. It proves the token exchange belongs to the same authorization attempt;
the client secret authenticates the app itself. Never embed that secret in browser JavaScript or a mobile binary.
Use the **OAuth 2.0** client credentials, not the OAuth 1.0a API Key and API Key Secret.
## Ask for the scopes posting actually needs
X's [authentication mapping](https://docs.x.com/fundamentals/authentication/guides/v2-authentication-mapping) lists
`tweet.read tweet.write users.read` for `POST /2/tweets`. Add refresh and upload access for a publishing app:
| Scope | What it is for |
|---|---|
| `tweet.read` | Reading posts; also in X's required scope set for creating a post |
| `tweet.write` | Creating and deleting posts on the user's behalf |
| `users.read` | Reading account identity; also required for creating a post |
| `offline.access` | Receiving a refresh token, so the app can renew access without another consent screen |
| `media.write` | Uploading media through X's v2 media API |
A text-posting app that needs to stay connected therefore requests `tweet.read tweet.write users.read offline.access`.
Include `media.write` if it uploads images or video. Requesting a scope is not the same as receiving it: inspect the
returned `scope` and store what was granted. If you add a scope later, the user must authorize the expanded request;
refreshing an old grant doesn't add permissions.
## The flow, in five steps
### 1. Make a verifier, its S256 challenge, and state
For each authorization attempt, generate a new cryptographically random **code verifier** and a separate random
**state**. Keep both tied to that attempt until the callback. The verifier stays with the app; its SHA-256 hash, encoded
as base64url without padding, goes to X as `code_challenge`.
This Node.js example constructs the authorization URL without calling X:
```js
import { randomBytes, createHash } from 'node:crypto';
const verifier = randomBytes(48).toString('base64url');
const state = randomBytes(24).toString('base64url');
const challenge = createHash('sha256').update(verifier).digest('base64url');
const params = new URLSearchParams({
response_type: 'code',
client_id: 'YOUR_OAUTH2_CLIENT_ID',
redirect_uri: 'https://example.com/oauth/x/callback',
scope: 'tweet.read tweet.write users.read offline.access media.write',
state,
code_challenge: challenge,
code_challenge_method: 'S256',
});
const authorizationUrl = 'https://x.com/i/oauth2/authorize?' + params;
// Save verifier and state securely for this attempt, then redirect the user's browser.
```
A verifier is 43 to 128 unreserved characters; this example makes 64. `base64url` is not ordinary Base64: no `+`, `/`
or trailing `=`. X's guide also shows `plain`; use `S256` rather than copying its static example challenges.
### 2. The user authorizes the app at X
Open `authorizationUrl` in their browser. X shows the requested permissions. The user may accept or decline; declining
is not a successful connection. PKCE isn't permission to skip this consent.
### 3. Check the callback before exchanging its code
After acceptance, X redirects to the registered callback with `code` and `state`. Match `state` to the saved attempt
before using the code, and retrieve **that attempt's** verifier. Don't use one global verifier that concurrent logins
can overwrite. Handle an error response without trying to redeem it as a code.
The `redirect_uri` must exactly match a registered callback. Use the same value in the authorization URL and token
exchange: scheme, host, port, path, query and trailing slash matter. `localhost` and `127.0.0.1` aren't interchangeable.
Encode each parameter once; use a URL/form encoder rather than concatenating unescaped values.
### 4. Exchange the code promptly
Send a form-encoded `POST` to `https://api.x.com/2/oauth2/token`. X documents a **30-second** code-redemption window.
The code is not a reusable credential: exchange it once, rather than replaying the callback.
For a **public client**, the request body contains:
```text
grant_type=authorization_code
client_id=YOUR_OAUTH2_CLIENT_ID
code=CODE_FROM_CALLBACK
redirect_uri=https://example.com/oauth/x/callback
code_verifier=THE_SAVED_VERIFIER
```
These lines list fields, not a literal wire body. Serialize them with `URLSearchParams` (joined by `&` and correctly
percent-encoded), and set `Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded`; don't send JSON.
For a **confidential client**, send the same grant, code, redirect and verifier, authenticated with
`Authorization: Basic BASE64_OF_CLIENT_ID_COLON_CLIENT_SECRET`. X says `client_id` isn't needed in the body when the
valid Basic header supplies it. Basic here is ordinary Base64, not the base64url used for PKCE.
Store the returned `access_token`, `expires_in`, granted `scope` and, when issued, `refresh_token` securely. Calculate
an expiry from `expires_in`; don't infer lifetime from a token's appearance. The user access token then goes in the
Bearer header on API requests. [Threads, polls and media](/docs/guides/x-api-threads-polls-media) shows the posting
request shapes, and [X API pricing](/docs/guides/x-api-pricing) explains their costs.
### 5. Refresh and replace, not refresh and forget
X's user access tokens normally last **two hours**. `offline.access` gets you a refresh token; it does **not** make the
access token permanent. Renew through the same token endpoint, form-encoded:
```text
grant_type=refresh_token
refresh_token=THE_CURRENT_REFRESH_TOKEN
```
A public client adds `client_id`; a confidential client uses its Basic header. No authorization code or PKCE verifier
is part of this refresh request.
**Refresh tokens rotate. Save the newest refresh token alongside the new access token and expiry before using the
new pair.** X's token-exchange documentation describes refresh tokens as single-use, and its Ads MCP guide explicitly
says to save each replacement. Don't let two workers refresh the same user's grant independently: coordinate the
refresh and make credential replacement atomic in your store. An old worker must not overwrite a newer pair.
The PKCE overview doesn't give a refresh-token lifetime. X's separate OAuth 1.0a-to-2.0 migration guide says about six
months for the tokens it issues; don't turn that into a guaranteed lifetime for every PKCE grant. Revocation can end
access sooner. If refresh is rejected, check the error and stored generation; a revoked or unusable grant needs fresh
user authorization, not an endless retry of the old refresh token.
## Common errors: what to check first
X's token-exchange documentation names `invalid_request`, `unauthorized_client` and `invalid_client`, but that error
table covers the separate OAuth 1.0a migration grant. It is not a promise that every PKCE failure has the same HTTP
status or wording. For PKCE, check the fields in X's authorization and user-token guides:
| Symptom | First checks |
|---|---|
| `invalid_request` | Correct endpoint and `grant_type`; form encoding, not JSON; required fields present. Authorization needs `response_type=code`, scope, state, challenge and method. Code exchange needs `code`, the original `redirect_uri` and `code_verifier`. A public client also needs `client_id`. |
| `unauthorized_client` or `invalid_client` | OAuth 2.0 is enabled on this app; credentials belong to that app; Client ID isn't an OAuth 1.0a API Key. Public client: body `client_id`, no invented secret. Confidential client: valid Basic header with its Client ID and Client Secret. |
| Redirect URI mismatch | The registered callback, authorization `redirect_uri` and exchange `redirect_uri` are identical, including any trailing slash. Check production versus development host and single percent-encoding. Don't replace the URI with an unregistered one to get past the check. |
| Expired/reused code or a verifier rejection, sometimes reported as `invalid_grant` | Redeem within the documented 30 seconds; use the original verifier, not its hash; hash it to reproduce the original challenge. Start a fresh authorization attempt if the code is no longer usable. |
| No `refresh_token` | The user authorized `offline.access` on this grant, not just on a later URL you haven't opened. |
| API call fails after token exchange | Use the user token, not an app-only bearer token; check granted scopes, expiry and the endpoint's access requirements. OAuth success alone doesn't prove an API call is permitted or funded. |
For diagnostics, keep the error name, status and parameter **names**, not client secrets, token values, the full callback
query or token response. Never paste credentials into an online Base64 decoder.
## How Flaghand uses it: two different OAuth connections
Flaghand's X connection uses S256 PKCE with a per-attempt verifier and state, a confidential-client Basic token
exchange, and `tweet.read tweet.write users.read media.write offline.access list.read`. `list.read` is extra to the
posting recipe above. It calculates expiry from X's `expires_in`, saves the replacement refresh token when X returns
one, and encrypts the stored platform credentials. This was checked against the implementation, not a new live login;
it is not a claim that public onboarding is open.
**An agent connecting to Flaghand is a different flow.** Flaghand is the authorization server for that MCP connection,
not X. It also uses S256, but issues a Flaghand workspace token limited to `read`, `drafts`, `media` and
`request-approval`; those tokens don't expire and have no refresh grant. They are revocable and cannot be used directly
against X. The owner-facing X connection holds X's tokens separately.
An X `tweet.write` grant gives an app technical posting power. It does not express approval of a particular draft.
Flaghand puts that decision above OAuth: an agent drafts, checks and requests approval; only the owner approves the
exact snapshot with a passkey. No agent token can approve, schedule or post. Read the
[agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents) and [approval boundary](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely).
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
## Sources
All checked on October 26, 2026. No live X API calls were made.
- X: [authorization code with PKCE](https://docs.x.com/fundamentals/authentication/oauth-2-0/authorization-code)
— app types, scopes, exact callbacks, code-redemption window and access-token lifetime.
- X: [OAuth 2.0 user access tokens](https://docs.x.com/fundamentals/authentication/oauth-2-0/user-access-token)
— public/confidential token exchange, Basic authentication, state, refresh and revocation.
- X: [v2 authentication mapping](https://docs.x.com/fundamentals/authentication/guides/v2-authentication-mapping)
— the three scopes for `POST /2/tweets`.
- X: [upload media](https://docs.x.com/x-api/media/upload-media) — the v2 upload's `media.write` requirement.
- X: [OAuth 1.0a token exchange](https://docs.x.com/fundamentals/authentication/oauth-2-0/oauth-1-0a-token-exchange)
— separate migration flow, single-use refresh tokens and its error table, not a PKCE-specific error contract.
- X: [Ads MCP](https://docs.x.com/x-ads-api/mcp) — another documented use of the same token endpoint, explicitly
requiring replacement of rotating refresh tokens; its Ads scopes are not this guide's posting scopes.
- [RFC 7636, sections 4.1–4.3](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7636.html#section-4.1) — verifier and S256 encoding.
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/x-api-posting-errors.md
# X API posting errors, explained
When `POST /2/tweets` fails, X answers with an HTTP status and a JSON body whose `detail` names the problem. The status
tells you the kind of failure; the detail tells you which one. Many posting failures are a 403, and the fix depends on
its detail.
Every X fact here comes from X's own documentation, checked on October 26, 2026: its
[response codes](https://docs.x.com/x-api/fundamentals/response-codes-and-errors),
[rate limits](https://docs.x.com/x-api/fundamentals/rate-limits),
[create post reference](https://docs.x.com/x-api/posts/create-post),
[manage posts guide](https://docs.x.com/x-api/posts/manage-tweets/integrate),
[OAuth 2.0 reference](https://docs.x.com/resources/fundamentals/authentication/oauth-2-0/authorization-code),
[pricing](https://docs.x.com/x-api/getting-started/pricing), the media
[introduction](https://docs.x.com/x-api/media/introduction),
[best practices](https://docs.x.com/x-api/media/quickstart/best-practices) and
[chunked upload](https://docs.x.com/x-api/media/quickstart/media-upload-chunked) pages, and X's
[changelog](https://docs.x.com/changelog). Where X's docs don't cover an error, this guide says so.
## The short answer
| X answers | What it means | What fixes it |
|---|---|---|
| 401 Unauthorized | The token is missing, wrong, expired or revoked | Refresh the token, or have the person sign in again |
| 403, "duplicate content" | The account already posted this text | Change the text; sending it again won't work |
| 403, "not permitted to perform this action" | X won't take this post from this app for this account | Check the app's access and the token's scopes, then the reply and quote rules |
| A refused reply | The post's author didn't mention or quote your account | Reply by hand in X, or make it a post of its own |
| A refused quote | Quote posts need X's Enterprise plan | Quote it by hand in X, or post it without the quote |
| 403, "video longer than N minutes" | The video is over the posting account's limit | Trim it to 20 minutes, or 125 with X Premium |
| 429 Too Many Requests | A rate limit or usage cap | Wait until `x-rate-limit-reset`, then retry |
| Media state `failed` | X couldn't process the file | Re-encode it to X's requirements and upload it again |
| 500, 502, 503 or 504 | A problem on X's side | Check the post didn't go out, then retry with backoff |
## 401: the token
X's response codes page puts a 401 down to invalid or missing credentials. Check, in order:
- **A user token.** Posting acts as a person, so the create post reference accepts only user tokens: OAuth 2.0 with the
`tweet.write`, `tweet.read` and `users.read` scopes, or an OAuth 1.0a user access token. An app-only Bearer token
can't post. Uploading media with OAuth 2.0 also needs `media.write`.
- **The header.** Send `Authorization: Bearer ` for OAuth 2.0.
- **Regenerated credentials.** If you regenerated the app's keys or tokens in the Developer Console, use the new ones.
- **An expired access token.** An OAuth 2.0 user access token lasts two hours. Ask for the `offline.access` scope at
sign-in and X also issues a refresh token: trade it at `POST https://api.x.com/2/oauth2/token` with
`grant_type=refresh_token` for a new access token, without asking the person again. Without `offline.access` there's
no refresh token, and the person signs in again. `offline.access` lasts until they revoke your app.
## 403: read the detail
A 403 means X knows who you are but refused the action. The response codes page lists the usual reasons: the app
doesn't have access to the endpoint, the endpoint needs enrollment or approval (problem type `client-forbidden`, "App
not enrolled or lacks required access"), the token lacks a scope, or the resource is private or protected. For a post,
the `detail` tells you which case you're in.
### "You are not allowed to create a Tweet with duplicate content."
X refuses a post whose text repeats one the account already posted. X's error reference doesn't list this detail, and X
doesn't publish how far back it looks.
- **Change the text.** Sending the same request again gets the same answer.
- **Look for a double send.** If an earlier attempt timed out or got a 5xx, it may have posted. Read the account's
latest posts before you send it again.
- **Vary repeats.** A weekly reminder needs different text each week.
### "You are not permitted to perform this action."
This is X's general refusal for a post, and X's error reference doesn't explain it either. Work through the causes X
does document:
1. **The app's setup.** X's manage posts guide requires a developer App inside a Project in the Developer Console.
2. **Scopes.** The token must carry `tweet.write`. Scopes are granted at sign-in, so after you add one, have the person
sign in again for a token that has it.
3. **A reply or a quote.** Self-serve access refuses most of them; see below.
4. **More than one cashtag.** On self-serve access, a post may carry one cashtag (such as `$TICKER`); X rejects more.
5. **Credits or the spending limit.** See below.
### Replies to other accounts
Since February 23, 2026, self-serve (pay-per-use) apps can reply only when the original post's author has summoned the
replying account: mentioned it in that post, or quoted one of its posts. X rejects any other reply. X says the change
targets automated, low-quality replies, and that Enterprise access isn't affected. Its docs don't give the error body.
- Reply by hand in X, or make the reply a post of its own.
- X also says further restrictions apply to mentioning or quoting accounts through the API, without listing them.
### Quote posts
X's create post reference now opens with a warning: quote-posting with `quote_tweet_id` requires an Enterprise plan and
isn't available on self-serve (pay-per-use) tiers. X's changelog entry of April 16, 2026 lists quote posts, with
following and likes, as removed from all self-serve tiers. Its docs don't give the error body.
- Quote the post by hand in X, or post without the quote.
### "This user is not allowed to post a video longer than N minutes."
The video uploaded, but it's longer than the posting account may post. X checks again when you attach a `media_id`,
against the posting account's status rather than your API plan: 20 minutes and 8 GB by default, 125 minutes and 16 GB
for X Premium or verified accounts. Trim the video, or post it from an account with the longer limit.
### Credits and the spending limit
On pay-per-use, X blocks requests once the credit balance runs out (it can dip slightly below zero first), or once the
billing cycle's spending limit is reached, until you add credits or the next cycle starts. X's pricing page says so but
doesn't publish the response. Flaghand recognizes two answers seen in practice: a 402 with `CreditsDepleted`, and a 403
whose detail says the account "has reached its billing cycle spend cap"
([how Flaghand handles them](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/x-ops)). Add credits, or raise the spending limit in the Developer Console.
[What each call costs](/docs/guides/x-api-pricing).
## 429: too many requests
X's response codes page gives 429 for "Rate limit or usage cap exceeded", with problem types `rate-limit-exceeded` and
`usage-capped`. Every response carries `x-rate-limit-limit`, `x-rate-limit-remaining` and `x-rate-limit-reset` (a Unix
time). Wait until the reset, then retry; X recommends exponential backoff for 429s.
The posting limits in X's rate limits table:
| Endpoint | Per user | Per app |
|---|---|---|
| `POST /2/tweets`: each post, reply and thread part | 100 per 15 minutes | 10,000 per 24 hours |
| `POST /2/media/upload/initialize`, `/append` and `/finalize` | 1,875 per 15 minutes | 180,000 per 24 hours |
| `GET /2/media/upload`: processing status | 1,000 per 15 minutes | 100,000 per 24 hours |
| `POST /2/media/metadata`: alt text | 500 per 15 minutes | 50,000 per 24 hours |
- **X's pages disagree.** Its manage posts guide gives 200 requests per 15 minutes per user and 300 posts and reposts
per 3 hours, while still saying v2 can't upload media. Those older figures aren't verified current pay-per-use limits;
use the current rate table and the response headers, not a promise that either page establishes your app's capacity.
- **Check the bucket's scope.** The rate table labels user limits for user tokens and app limits for app-only Bearer
tokens, but also lists app limits for writes that require user tokens. That leaves aggregation across user tokens
unclear. The older manage posts guide also says user limits span apps; verify your app's actual allowance.
- **Limits and billing are separate.** You can stay within the limits and still spend credits, or hit a limit at no cost.
## Media: upload, processing and size
Media goes up before the post: initialize, append the file in segments, finalize, then check its status if finalize
returns `processing_info`. Each step can fail on its own:
- **Segments too large.** Keep each appended segment at 5 MB or less; X's maximum is 8 MB. Segments count from 0.
- **Processing.** The state moves from `pending` to `in_progress`, then `succeeded` or `failed`. Wait `check_after_secs`
between status checks, and attach the `media_id` only after `succeeded`.
- **A failed video.** Check it against X's requirements: H.264 video (High Profile recommended), AAC-LC audio (not
HE-AAC) in mono or stereo, 60 fps or less, YUV 4:2:0, progressive scan, no open GOP, square pixels, an aspect ratio
between 1:3 and 3:1, and 32x32 to 1280x1024 pixels.
- **The category.** `media_category` (`tweet_image`, `tweet_gif` or `tweet_video`) decides which limits apply. A large
animated GIF needs chunked upload with `tweet_gif`.
- **An expired upload.** The upload session expires after `expires_after_secs` (86,400 seconds, a day, in X's example).
Upload close to posting time.
X's limits, checked at upload and again when the post is created:
| Media | X's limit |
|---|---|
| Photo: JPG, PNG, GIF or WEBP | 5 MB |
| Animated GIF | 15 MB. X recommends at most 1280x1080, 350 frames and 300 million pixels in all |
| Video, most accounts | 0.5 seconds to 20 minutes, up to 8 GB |
| Video, X Premium or verified | Up to 125 minutes and 16 GB |
| Alt text | 1,000 characters |
| Per post | Up to 4 photos, 1 animated GIF or 1 video |
An upload that succeeded doesn't guarantee the post: `POST /2/tweets` checks the limits again, which is where the
video-length 403 comes from.
## 500, 502, 503 and 504
These are X's side: wait and retry with backoff, and check X's [API status](https://developer.x.com/status). Before you
retry a post, read the account's latest posts. If the first attempt went out, the retry can come back as duplicate
content.
## Posting through Flaghand
Flaghand's check catches several of these before anyone approves a post: text over the account's limit (280 weighted
characters, or 25,000 when X reports a Basic, Premium or PremiumPlus subscription), more than 4 media, a video mixed with
photos, a photo over 5 MB or a GIF over 15 MB, alt text over 1,000 characters, and any quote post, even of your own post.
For a quote it offers to post it yourself in X or drop the quote; for a thread, you can post the opening quote yourself
and let Flaghand post the rest under it ([draft rules](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/drafts-and-media)).
When X refuses an approved post anyway:
- **The job shows X's status.** Its error reads like `X returned HTTP 403: The request couldn't be completed.`
Flaghand doesn't store X's error body, because it can echo the post's content.
- **A 429 fails visibly, without changing the approved time.** It won't be sent again automatically. Any earlier thread
parts remain live; choose a new time after the platform allows requests again and request approval. Flaghand shows a
valid reset hint when X supplies one, but it isn't a guarantee of capacity. A refused read-back check doesn't resend
an accepted post.
- **Other retryable errors, including 5xx, are tried again** two minutes later, up to three tries in all. A thread picks
up after its last saved live post, not from the start.
- **A 401 holds the job.** The owner reconnects X in Settings, then retries the post in the desk. X logins otherwise
renew themselves.
- **Running out of credits holds the job too.** Flaghand prepays X's API, so you don't buy X credits; once they're
topped up, the owner retries the held post in the desk.
- **Any other 403 fails the job.** Fix the draft and approve it again.
Flaghand's own API answers with its own [error codes](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/errors).
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/x-api-pricing.md
# X API pricing, explained for people who post
X's pay-per-use API has no required monthly subscription. You buy credits in X's Developer Console, and usage is paid
from them. A plain post costs a cent and a half; a post with a link costs 20 cents.
Every price here comes from X's own [pricing page](https://docs.x.com/x-api/getting-started/pricing) and its
[delete-post reference](https://docs.x.com/x-api/posts/delete-post), checked on October 25, 2026. X says its prices can
change and that the Developer Console always shows the current ones, so check there before you budget.
## What each action costs
| What you do | X bills it as | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Post without a link | Post: Create | $0.015 a post |
| Post with a link | Post: Create (with URL) | $0.200 a post |
| Add alt text to an image | Media Metadata | $0.005 a request |
| Upload an image or video | Not in X's table | Not listed |
| Read a post, such as checking it went out | Posts: Read | $0.005 a post |
| Look up an account, such as an @mention | User: Read | $0.010 an account |
| Delete a post | Content: Manage | $0.005 a request |
- **A link costs more than 13 plain posts.** X's table doesn't say what counts as a URL, so plan as if any link in the
text does.
- **A thread is one post per part.** A five-part thread of plain text costs $0.075. Put a link in one part and that part
costs $0.200, so the thread costs $0.260.
- **Media uploads have no listed price.** X's table has no row for uploading images or video, so the totals below leave
it out.
- **Reads normally count once a day.** X deduplicates a post or an account within each UTC day, resetting at midnight.
It calls this a soft guarantee: an outage or another edge case can cause another charge.
- **Owned Reads cost $0.001 a resource on eligible endpoints.** Your authenticated account must own the developer app,
and the endpoint must be on X's list, such as `GET /2/users/{id}/tweets`. A read of an individual post by ID isn't on
that list; don't assume every read of your own post gets the discount.
- X also lists Post: Create (summoned) at $0.010 without saying on that page which posts it covers. The totals below
don't use it.
## What a month of posting costs
A 30-day month, one account, each post its own request:
| Posts a day | Text only | Every post has a link | With alt text and one read-back |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (30 a month) | $0.45 | $6.00 | $0.75 |
| 3 (90 a month) | $1.35 | $18.00 | $2.25 |
| 10 (300 a month) | $4.50 | $60.00 | $7.50 |
The last column is a post without a link, alt text on one image, and one read of the post afterwards: $0.025 a post.
These are usage estimates from the listed rates, excluding any media-upload charge and any other calls your app makes.
They don't assume free credits or an Owned Reads discount.
Links set the bill. Three posts a day with a link in one of them costs $6.90 a month, and $6.00 of that is the links.
## Keeping the bill in check
- **Set a spending limit** in the Developer Console. Once it's reached, X blocks every request, posts included, until
the next billing cycle.
- **Watch the balance.** Credits are taken as you go. A balance can dip slightly below zero, and then X blocks requests
until you add credits.
- **Promotional credits aren't a lower rate.** X offers eligible accounts a one-time $20 after their first purchase
with a qualifying saved card, and a match of their first successful auto-recharge up to $50. These offers have card
and account conditions; promotional credits expire after three months
([X's free credits page](https://docs.x.com/x-api/getting-started/free-credits)). Neither offer is used in the totals.
## Posting through Flaghand
You don't buy X credits to post through Flaghand: Flaghand prepays X's API. If those credits ever run out, your approved
posts are held, not lost, and you retry them from the desk once they're topped up
([X credits and spend](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/x-ops)). After each X post, Flaghand reads it back and compares it with what you
approved ([how that works](/docs/guides/let-an-ai-agent-post-safely)).
[Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/x-api-rate-limits.md
# X API rate limits for posting, explained
A `429 Too Many Requests` from the X API means a rate limit or usage cap was reached. For posting, X's current rate-limit
table lists **100 requests per 15 minutes per user** and **10,000 per 24 hours per app** for `POST /2/tweets`. Those are
request windows, not a monthly posting subscription or a promise that every app can publish that many posts.
Checked on October 26, 2026 against X's own [rate-limit reference](https://docs.x.com/x-api/fundamentals/rate-limits),
[manage-posts guide](https://docs.x.com/x-api/posts/manage-tweets/integrate),
[create-post reference](https://docs.x.com/x-api/posts/create-post),
[response codes](https://docs.x.com/x-api/fundamentals/response-codes-and-errors) and
[pricing documentation](https://docs.x.com/x-api/getting-started/pricing). The pages disagree on one posting limit;
that difference is called out below. Check your app's [Developer Console](https://console.x.com) and actual response
headers before planning a burst.
## Pay-per-use, Enterprise and the old plan names
X's current pricing page describes **pay-per-use, with no required subscription**: credits pay for usage. Its current
rate-limit reference publishes one endpoint table, not separate Free, Basic and Pro posting tables. Enterprise customers
have custom rate limits.
If you found an old Twitter API Free, Basic or Pro quota, don't treat it as today's pay-per-use allowance. These current
pages don't establish a current posting quota for each old tier or the terms of a particular legacy account. Check the
plan and limits shown for that app in the Console. An X Premium account subscription is not an API request allowance.
Three different constraints can stop a post:
- **Endpoint rate limits:** how many requests a user or app can make within a window.
- **Usage caps:** a separate allowance, which can also produce a 429. The endpoint's short-window reset may not clear it.
- **Billing:** credits and a billing-cycle spending limit. Having credits doesn't remove a rate limit, and waiting for a
rate window doesn't refill a balance.
For costs and credit behavior, use [X API pricing, explained](/docs/guides/x-api-pricing). The numbers below are request
limits, not prices or monthly plan entitlements.
## Posting limits: per user and per app
These are the figures in X's rate-limit reference on the checked date:
| Endpoint | Per user | Per app |
|---|---|---|
| `POST /2/tweets`: a post, reply or thread part | 100 per 15 minutes | 10,000 per 24 hours |
| `DELETE /2/tweets/:id` | 50 per 15 minutes | Not listed |
**Per user** means the account represented by the user token. The manage-posts guide says its user allowance applies
across any developer App: two tools posting for the same account don't each get a fresh user allowance. **Per app** is
the app-level column, not 10,000 for each connected person. A new access token is not a new person or a new allowance.
There is an authentication wrinkle in X's documentation: the general rate-limit page labels per-app limits as applying
to app-only bearer tokens, but the create-post reference requires **user authorization**. An app-only bearer token cannot
publish a post. The per-app column is not another way to authenticate; confirm the counters that apply to your app in
the Console rather than assuming one response header describes every applicable allowance.
### Why another X page says 200, not 100
The manage-posts guide still states **200 posting requests per 15 minutes per user**, plus **300 requests per 3 hours**
combining post creation and reposts. The central rate-limit table instead says **100 per 15 minutes** for creation.
Neither page explains that discrepancy or gives a plan mapping that resolves it.
Don't build around the larger number. Use 100 per 15 minutes as the conservative published reference, account for the
separately documented 300-per-three-hour allowance, and monitor the actual counters. Staying under one window doesn't
prove the others have room. Enterprise's custom terms may differ; this table is not its contract.
### Threads and media have more than one request
A five-part thread needs five `POST /2/tweets` requests: the root and four replies. It is not one write because your UI
shows one review item. A retry should continue from the first unsent part, not recreate the root.
Media endpoints have their own counters. X's table lists:
| Endpoint | Per user | Per app |
|---|---|---|
| `POST /2/media/upload`: one-step upload | 500 per 15 minutes | 50,000 per 24 hours |
| `POST /2/media/upload/initialize` | 1,875 per 15 minutes | 180,000 per 24 hours |
| `POST /2/media/upload/:id/append` | 1,875 per 15 minutes | 180,000 per 24 hours |
| `POST /2/media/upload/:id/finalize` | 1,875 per 15 minutes | 180,000 per 24 hours |
| `GET /2/media/upload`: processing status | 1,000 per 15 minutes | 100,000 per 24 hours |
| `POST /2/media/metadata`: alt text | 500 per 15 minutes | 50,000 per 24 hours |
Each appended segment is a request to the append endpoint; status polling consumes the status endpoint's allowance.
A successful upload doesn't prove there is room to create the post. For the upload sequence and payloads, see
[threads, polls and media with the X API v2](/docs/guides/x-api-threads-polls-media).
## Reading a Twitter API 429 and its reset headers
X's response-code reference describes 429 as **rate limit or usage cap exceeded**, with problem types
`rate-limit-exceeded` and `usage-capped`. Its rate-limit page also shows an error body with code `88` and message
`Rate limit exceeded`. Don't require that one body shape to recognize every 429; read the HTTP status and the returned
problem details.
| Response header | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| `x-rate-limit-limit` | Maximum requests in the reported window |
| `x-rate-limit-remaining` | Requests left in that window |
| `x-rate-limit-reset` | Unix timestamp, in **seconds**, when that window resets |
Read these headers on successful responses too. When remaining reaches zero, wait for that window's reset instead of
sending another write just to discover it is exhausted. The reset is an absolute time, not a number of seconds to sleep.
In JavaScript, convert it to milliseconds before comparing it with `Date.now()`.
If your clock is 90 seconds before the reported reset, wait at least those 90 seconds; don't retry once a second.
That is an illustrative calculation, not a fixed X retry delay. A reset for one reported counter is not proof that a
longer user, app or usage allowance has reset too.
## How to back off without duplicating a post
X recommends waiting until `x-rate-limit-reset` and using exponential backoff if needed. In your own integration:
1. **Keep the rejected work queued.** Record the status, endpoint, account, reset and problem type, without logging
credentials or private post content. Coordinate workers using the same applicable counter, rather than having every
worker retry independently.
2. **Honor a valid future reset first.** Wait until it has passed. Add a little randomized delay so a whole queue doesn't
wake at the exact same instant; jitter should never move the retry before the reset.
3. **If the reset is missing, invalid or already past and 429 continues, back off progressively.** Increase the delay
between attempts exponentially, with jitter, instead of immediately looping. Re-read the headers on each response.
These are integration recommendations, not a claim that X specifies one universal delay sequence.
4. **Distinguish a usage cap from a short-window limit.** For `usage-capped`, inspect the Console's usage allowance and
reset period. Repeating a request after a 15-minute boundary won't fix a different exhausted allowance. For credits
or spending, follow the [pricing guide](/docs/guides/x-api-pricing), not a rate-limit retry loop.
5. **Retry only the unsent operation.** Preserve successful post IDs and a thread's reply chain. A timeout or 5xx is not
the same as a definite 429 refusal: if X may have accepted a write before the connection failed, reconcile the outcome
before sending it again. Don't rotate accounts, apps or tokens to get around a limit.
Spread legitimate queued work through the window and use the remaining count as feedback. Don't assume windows reset
at midnight or on a fixed wall-clock quarter hour; use the timestamp X returns. Reconnecting an account fixes some
sign-in failures, not exhausted rate counters.
## Posting through Flaghand
The backoff steps above are advice for an integration you build, not a claim that Flaghand implements that exact retry
policy. Flaghand's current retry and held-job behavior, plus the separate 401, 403, credit and media failures, are in
[X API posting errors, explained](/docs/guides/x-api-posting-errors). Waiting for a reset doesn't approve a new post or
automatically restart a held job.
In Flaghand, an agent drafts, checks and requests approval; only the owner can approve the exact plan with a passkey.
No API-token scope lets an agent approve, schedule or post. [Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/x-api-threads-polls-media.md
# Threads, polls and media with the X API v2
All three go through one endpoint, `POST /2/tweets`, with a token for the account that posts. A thread is a chain of
replies, a poll is a field on the post, and an image or video is uploaded first and attached by its ID.
Each request here was checked on October 26, 2026 against X's published
[OpenAPI spec](https://api.x.com/2/openapi.json) (version 2.172) and its docs, linked under [Sources](#sources). None
was sent: real calls cost money. Prices are from X's [pricing page](https://docs.x.com/x-api/getting-started/pricing),
checked the same day. X can change both, so check them before you build on them.
## Before you start
- **A user token for the posting account.** Posting needs OAuth 2.0 with `tweet.read`, `tweet.write` and `users.read`,
or OAuth 1.0a user context. Uploads also need `media.write`. An app-only bearer token can't post. The examples use
`$USER_ACCESS_TOKEN`, as X's own do.
- **Credits.** X's API is pay per use: you buy credits in X's Developer Console, and each call is paid from them.
## A thread: each part replies to the one before
X's API has no thread call. Post the first part, keep the `id` X returns, then post each next part as a reply to the
part before it.
```sh
# Part 1
curl -X POST "https://api.x.com/2/tweets" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $USER_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"text": "We shipped weekly charts today. Here is what changed."}'
# {"data": {"id": "1880000000000000001", "text": "We shipped weekly charts today. …"}}
# Part 2, a reply to part 1
curl -X POST "https://api.x.com/2/tweets" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $USER_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"text": "Charts now cover any week you pick.",
"reply": {"in_reply_to_tweet_id": "1880000000000000001"}}'
# Part 3 replies to part 2's id, and so on.
```
- **Each part is its own request**, billed as a post: $0.015, or $0.200 for a part with a link. Five plain parts cost
$0.075; a link in one of them makes it $0.260.
- **A failure halfway leaves the first parts live.** Keep each `id` as it comes back and carry on from the last live
part. Starting again from the top posts part 1 twice.
- **Leaving accounts out of a reply.** `reply.exclude_reply_user_ids` takes the user IDs to leave out. X's spec also
lists `reply.auto_populate_reply_metadata`, but says it's dropped before the post is made.
## A poll: one field on the post
```sh
curl -X POST "https://api.x.com/2/tweets" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $USER_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"text": "What should we build next?",
"poll": {"options": ["Better charts", "More exports"], "duration_minutes": 1440},
"reply_settings": "following"}'
```
- **2 to 4 options**, each 1 to 25 characters, in the order they show.
- **`duration_minutes` from 5 to 10,080** (7 days). 1,440 is one day.
- **Who can reply** is `reply_settings` on the post: `following`, `mentionedUsers`, `subscribers` or `verified`. Leave
it out for everyone. X's spec accepts `reply_settings` inside `poll` too, but drops it there, so set it on the post.
- **A poll costs the same as a post**: $0.015, or $0.200 if its text has a link.
- **To read it back**, ask for the poll by name. Each post read costs $0.005.
```sh
curl -G "https://api.x.com/2/tweets" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $USER_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
-d ids=1880000000000000003 -d expansions=attachments.poll_ids \
-d poll.fields=options,duration_minutes
```
## An image or video: upload, then attach
Upload the file first, then put the `id` X returns in `media.media_ids`. A post takes up to 4 photos, 1 animated GIF
or 1 video.
Video, and any large file, goes through X's chunked upload: start it, send the file in pieces, finish it, and wait while
X processes it.
```sh
# 1. Start: the file's type, its exact size in bytes, and what it's for
curl -X POST "https://api.x.com/2/media/upload/initialize" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $USER_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"media_type": "video/mp4", "total_bytes": 10485760,
"media_category": "tweet_video"}'
# {"data": {"id": "1880028106020515840", "expires_after_secs": 86400, …}}
# 2. Send pieces of 5 MB or less (4 MB here), numbered from 0
split -b 4194304 clip.mp4 part_
curl -X POST "https://api.x.com/2/media/upload/1880028106020515840/append" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $USER_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
-F "segment_index=0" -F "media=@part_aa"
# Then segment_index=1 with part_ab, and so on.
# 3. Finish. If the answer has processing_info, check until it says succeeded
curl -X POST "https://api.x.com/2/media/upload/1880028106020515840/finalize" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $USER_ACCESS_TOKEN"
curl -G "https://api.x.com/2/media/upload" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $USER_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
-d command=STATUS -d media_id=1880028106020515840
# 4. Post it
curl -X POST "https://api.x.com/2/tweets" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $USER_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"text": "Weekly charts, in 40 seconds.",
"media": {"media_ids": ["1880028106020515840"]}}'
```
A small image can go up in one request instead. Give it alt text before you post it:
```sh
curl -X POST "https://api.x.com/2/media/upload" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $USER_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
-F "media=@chart.png" -F "media_category=tweet_image"
# {"data": {"id": "1880028106020515841", …}}
curl -X POST "https://api.x.com/2/media/metadata" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $USER_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"id": "1880028106020515841",
"metadata": {"alt_text": {"text": "Bar chart of weekly views, up 40%"}}}'
```
- **Size limits.** Images 5 MB, animated GIFs 15 MB, video up to 20 minutes and 8 GB (125 minutes and 16 GB for an X
Premium or verified account). X checks size and length again when you post, against the posting account, so an
upload that worked can still be refused with a 403.
- **Not the old command style.** Don't send `command=INIT`, `APPEND` or `FINALIZE` to `/2/media/upload`: that was
X's previous upload protocol. `command=STATUS` is only for the status check.
- **Upload close to posting time.** The upload expires after `expires_after_secs`: 86,400 seconds, a day, in X's
example.
- **Alt text** is one `POST /2/media/metadata` per file, up to 1,000 characters.
- **Uploads have no listed price.** X's pricing table doesn't list the upload calls, so their cost is unknown, not
free. Alt text is billed as Media Metadata, $0.005 a request.
## What each call costs
| Call | X bills it as | Price |
|---|---|---|
| `POST /2/tweets`: a post, a thread part or a poll | Post: Create | $0.015 a request |
| `POST /2/tweets` with a link in the text | Post: Create (with URL) | $0.200 a request |
| `/2/media/upload`: one-step, initialize, append, finalize, status | Not in X's table | Not listed |
| `POST /2/media/metadata`: alt text | Media Metadata | $0.005 a request |
| `GET /2/tweets`: reading posts back | Posts: Read | $0.005 a post |
A three-part thread with an image and alt text on part 1, a link in part 3, and one read-back of all three parts costs
$0.250, plus whatever X charges for the upload: $0.030 for parts 1 and 2, $0.200 for part 3, $0.005 for the alt text
and $0.015 to read the three back. X charges a read of the same post once per UTC day, which it calls a soft guarantee.
[X API pricing, explained](/docs/guides/x-api-pricing) has monthly totals.
## What Flaghand adds
Flaghand is a publishing desk where your agent drafts and the owner approves. The agent sends Flaghand the content, not
the X calls: a thread is one draft of 2 to 25 posts, a poll is the same `poll` object, and media is uploaded to
Flaghand once, with its alt text.
```sh
curl -X POST "https://app.flaghand.com/api/v1/workspaces/$WS/drafts" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"kind": "x_thread", "connection_id": "con_…",
"post_at": "2026-11-02T16:30:00.000Z", "body": {"posts": [
{"text": "What should we build next?", "poll": {
"options": ["Better charts", "More exports"], "duration_minutes": 1440}},
{"text": "Here is the chart we have now.", "media": [
{"media_id": "med_…", "alt": "Bar chart of weekly views"}]}]}}'
```
The agent then checks the draft and asks the owner to approve it. From there:
- **The owner approves the exact post.** No agent token can approve, schedule or post. The owner approves in the desk
with a passkey, and the approval freezes the account, time, text, poll, reply setting, media and alt text into a
snapshot hashed with SHA-256. Any change needs a new approval, and the scheduler checks the snapshot again right
before posting.
- **The preview matches what posts.** The desk shows the thread, the poll (unvoted) and the media the way X lays them
out. The check before approval flags anything that wouldn't post exactly as previewed: X's character count, media
counts, sizes and alt-text lengths, the poll's rules, and whether the account's login lasts to the post time. It
also returns the exact request it would send to X.
- **Flaghand makes the X calls.** At the approved time it uploads the media through X's chunked endpoints, adds the alt
text and posts the thread as a reply chain. If a part fails, a retry carries on after the last live part. Replies
under the account's own posts leave out the accounts the part above mentions, which X would otherwise add as hidden
mentions.
- **It reads each post back.** After posting, Flaghand compares the live posts with what you approved: normalized text,
author, reply chain, hidden reply mentions, media count, available alt text, the poll's choices, order and duration,
and the opening post's reply setting. It doesn't verify link destinations or the media files themselves.
- **No X credits to buy.** Flaghand prepays X's API.
**Where it does less:** files up to 50 MB, so no long videos; X and LinkedIn personal profiles only; and it's in early
access, so sign-up isn't open yet. Every field is in Flaghand's [drafts and media docs](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/drafts-and-media)
and [agent documentation](https://app.flaghand.com/docs/agents). [Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
## Sources
All read on October 26, 2026. No X API call was made for this guide.
- X's [OpenAPI spec](https://api.x.com/2/openapi.json), version 2.172
- Posts: [create post](https://docs.x.com/x-api/posts/create-post),
[manage posts quickstart](https://docs.x.com/x-api/posts/manage-tweets/quickstart),
[get posts by IDs](https://docs.x.com/x-api/posts/get-posts-by-ids)
- Media: [media upload](https://docs.x.com/x-api/media/introduction),
[chunked upload](https://docs.x.com/x-api/media/quickstart/media-upload-chunked),
[one-step upload](https://docs.x.com/x-api/media/upload-media),
[alt text](https://docs.x.com/x-api/media/create-media-metadata)
- Prices: [pricing](https://docs.x.com/x-api/getting-started/pricing)
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)
---
Source: https://flaghand.com/docs/guides/x-linkedin-character-limits.md
# X (Twitter) and LinkedIn character limits, explained
X (formerly Twitter) allows **280 weighted characters** in a standard post. LinkedIn's post limit is **3,000**, but it
counts text differently. Neither number tells you how much someone sees in their feed before expanding the post.
Try the [X character counter](/x-character-counter) or [LinkedIn character counter](/linkedin-character-counter) on your
final text; the differences below explain why a word processor's count may disagree.
Checked on October 26, 2026 against the platforms' own documentation, linked under [Sources](#sources). The examples
below were also checked against Flaghand's free counters and the scheduler's posting checks. Platform documentation
and measured preview behavior are called out separately.
## The limits at a glance
| Where you write | Limit | What that means |
|---|---|---|
| X standard post | 280 weighted characters | A recognized link uses 23; emoji and most Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters use 2. |
| X longer post with an eligible paid subscription | Up to 25,000 | Longer posts are a Premium feature, including Basic. Eligibility belongs to the posting account. |
| LinkedIn post | 3,000 | Spaces, line breaks and the full URL count. Most emoji use more than one unit. |
| LinkedIn comment | No verified general maximum in the checked docs | Ordinary-post Help and API docs give no number; group-specific Help pages disagree. |
| LinkedIn profile headline | Up to 220 | LinkedIn's own profile-writing guidance gives this number; it is not the post allowance. |
Flaghand's [X character counter](/x-character-counter) checks the standard 280 budget. The
[LinkedIn character counter](/linkedin-character-counter) checks posts, not comment or profile-headline limits.
Neither free tool verifies an account's paid subscription.
## X: why 280 does not mean 280 visible symbols
X documents the rules in [Counting characters](https://docs.x.com/fundamentals/counting-characters) and its
[twitter-text library](https://github.com/twitter/twitter-text):
- **Ordinary Latin letters, spaces and line breaks usually weigh 1.** Other scripts have their own Unicode ranges;
this is not simply ASCII versus everything else.
- **Most Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters weigh 2.** A plain post of 140 such characters fills 280, before
spaces, punctuation or links.
- **A recognized emoji sequence weighs 2**, even when several Unicode code points form one skin-toned emoji, flag or
joined family.
- **Every recognized URL weighs 23**, whether it is shorter or longer than that. This is X's `t.co` treatment;
manually shortening an already recognized link does not buy more room. Surrounding spaces still count.
- **X normalizes text to NFC before counting.** A decomposed `e` plus combining acute accent becomes the same `é`
for this count. A word processor's character count can disagree.
Hashtags and manually typed `@handles` use their text's weight; they are not free. Automatically included reply
mentions are a separate X rule, not a reason to omit an `@handle` you typed from the count.
`twitter-text` explains the underlying model, but a particular library release is not a guarantee of today's X
composer behavior. Flaghand shares its X counting code between the free counter and the desk's checks, following
the current composer rules rather than treating JavaScript's string length as X's count.
## Premium and longer X posts
[About X Premium](https://help.x.com/en/using-x/x-premium) lists longer posts up to **25,000 characters**, with
longer posts included in Basic, Premium and Premium+. That does not turn every account's post limit into 25,000, or
make a free counter's negative “left of 280” result proof that a paid account cannot post it.
For a single longer post, Flaghand checks the connected account's subscription type from X and applies a **25,000
weighted-character** ceiling when X confirms `Basic`, `Premium` or `PremiumPlus`. An editable blue badge in a preview
is not that confirmation. X's [API changelog](https://docs.x.com/changelog) announced long-form writes on August 9,
2024 and an increase from 4,000 to 25,000 on August 20, 2024. Those entries establish API support, not an entitlement
guarantee for every app and account.
Longer-post eligibility and how much the timeline shows are different things. A post over 280 weighted characters
shows in the timeline only up to the last space or line break within its first 280, then **Show more**. That is
Flaghand's measurement of x.com, not an X document; the [X character counter](/x-character-counter) shows where the
cut falls.
## LinkedIn: the post budget is not X's weighting
[LinkedIn's post-versus-article Help page](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a522483/differences-between-posting-updates-and-publishing?lang=en) documents a **3,000-character
post** allowance. Flaghand's counter and scheduler count the plain text as
posted in **UTF-16 code units**, matching the composer behavior covered by its counting fixtures:
- An ordinary Latin letter, a space, a line break or a basic Chinese, Japanese or Korean character counts 1.
- A common emoji such as `😀` counts 2. A skin tone, flag or joined family can use more.
- A URL counts its **full typed length** toward the post budget, even when the feed displays a shortened link.
- Mathematical Unicode bold or italic letters often count 2 each. They are different characters, not rich-text
formatting; the [LinkedIn formatting guide](/docs/guides/formatting-a-linkedin-post) explains the accessibility and
search trade-offs, as well as spacing, mentions and links.
The 3,000 allowance is LinkedIn's published rule. The UTF-16 explanation and the examples here describe the counting
behavior Flaghand implements and tests; they are not a claim that LinkedIn's help page specifies its Unicode algorithm.
## Comments and headlines have separate rules
LinkedIn's [ordinary-post commenting Help page](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a524166/commenting-on-updates-and-comments?lang=en) and current
[Comments API reference](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/comments-api?view=li-lms-2026-10)
do not specify a numeric comment-text maximum. Its group-specific Help pages disagree:
[General limits for LinkedIn groups](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a544801?lang=en) lists **1,250 for
comments**, while [Add comments to group conversations](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1651958?lang=en)
says **1,000**. Neither is a verified general limit for ordinary feed comments or the API. Check the actual comment
field's feedback rather than borrowing the post's 3,000 allowance or treating a group number as universal.
For a **personal profile headline**, LinkedIn's own
[profile-writing guidance](https://business.linkedin.com/sell/resources/effective-sales-profile) says headlines can be
**up to 220 characters**. That is the headline under your name, not a post, article title or ad headline. Its
[headline Help page](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a542926/editing-your-professional-headline?lang=en)
explains how to edit it but does not state a number. Flaghand's free post counter does not validate either comments
or profile headlines.
## What the same text counts
Each row is just the text inside the code marks; the marks do not count.
| Text | X | LinkedIn |
|---|---|---|
| `A` | 1 | 1 |
| `漢` | 2 | 1 |
| `😀` | 2 | 2 |
| `👍🏽` | 2 | 4 |
| `👨👩👧👦` | 2 | 11 |
Links make the difference especially clear:
- `https://example.com`: **23 on X, 19 on LinkedIn**.
- `https://example.com/a/long/path`: **23 on X, 31 on LinkedIn**.
One more edge case: visually identical accents need not have the same LinkedIn count. The single character `é`
counts 1; an `e` followed by a combining acute accent counts 2. X normalizes both to a weight of 1.
## How much appears before “see more”?
**It is not a fixed character allowance.** The post can fit its platform's posting limit while part of it is hidden
in the feed. Width, line breaks, glyph widths and the particular feed view affect what appears.
The LinkedIn Help and API pages checked here do not promise one universal “first 140” or “first 210 characters” cutoff. In
Flaghand's measured LinkedIn feed renderer, a **552 px** desktop card starts with a three-line clamp, dropping
trailing empty lines from that preview. A blank third line can therefore leave only two visible lines. A narrower
phone card wraps the same words sooner. This is a measured preview model, not a LinkedIn API contract.
Use the [LinkedIn character counter](/linkedin-character-counter) to shade what falls behind the fold, then open the
[LinkedIn post previewer](/linkedin-post-preview) to check the actual desktop and phone layouts. The
[formatting guide](/docs/guides/formatting-a-linkedin-post) covers the 552 px behavior in more detail.
## Before publishing
Count the final text after adding links, emoji and styled letters. Then inspect its opening at the width readers
will use. In the hosted desk, an agent can draft, check and request approval; only the owner approves the exact
snapshot with a passkey. No agent token can approve, schedule or post. [Get access to Flaghand](/schedule).
## Sources
Platform pages checked on October 26, 2026.
- X: [Counting characters](https://docs.x.com/fundamentals/counting-characters) and the platform-owned
[twitter-text library](https://github.com/twitter/twitter-text).
- X longer posts: [About X Premium](https://help.x.com/en/using-x/x-premium) and the
[API changelog](https://docs.x.com/changelog) (August 9 and 20, 2024 entries).
- LinkedIn posts: [Differences between posting updates and publishing articles](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a522483/differences-between-posting-updates-and-publishing?lang=en).
- LinkedIn comments: [Comment on posts and reply to a comment](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a524166/commenting-on-updates-and-comments?lang=en)
and the [Comments API](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/marketing/community-management/shares/comments-api?view=li-lms-2026-10).
Conflicting, group-specific numbers: [General limits for LinkedIn groups](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a544801?lang=en)
and [Add comments to group conversations](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1651958?lang=en).
- LinkedIn headline: [LinkedIn's profile-writing guidance](https://business.linkedin.com/sell/resources/effective-sales-profile)
and [Edit your headline](https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a542926/editing-your-professional-headline?lang=en).
[All guides](/docs/guides.md)