Built to keep your Instagram account safe
The fear that stops most creators automating is losing the account. Here’s exactly what linkpls does to protect yours.
The safety engine
Every DM and public reply goes through it, on every plan. Here’s what it does when a post takes off.
Paced, never rushed
At most 200 DMs an hour and 1,500 a day, at least 12 seconds apart. Meta’s own limit for DMs to commenters is 750 an hour.
Spikes drain steadily
When a post takes off, sends line up and go out at that pace instead of in one burst. Pause an automation and its queued sends stop too.
Wording that varies
On Pro, the AI writes up to 10 versions of your DM, and each DM goes out as one of them, picked at random. Public replies are picked at random too, on any plan.
Official API, no password
You connect with Instagram’s own login, and every send goes through Meta’s official API. No password, no bots, no scraping.
Example: when 1,200 comments arrive in 10 minutes, far past Meta’s documented limit of 750 DMs an hour, linkpls sends at most 200 an hour, 12 seconds apart. The rest wait in a queue that empties in about six hours.
- Commentkeyword matched
- Checkedonce per person
- Queued12 s apart
- WordedAI version (Pro)
- Sentofficial API
- DMs an hour, at most
- 200
- DMs a day, at most
- 1,500
- between any two DMs
- 12 s
Watch it work. The Delivery card on your dashboard shows what’s waiting to send, who was messaged in the last 24 hours, anything that failed, and how much of this hour’s allowance is used.
How it protects your account
Official API, nothing else
linkpls works through Meta’s Instagram API with Instagram Login. You approve it on Instagram’s own login screen. There’s no password to hand over, no browser bot and no scraping.
Three permissions, all visible
linkpls asks for your profile and posts, your comments, and your messages: what it needs to reply, and nothing else. You can revoke them from Instagram’s settings at any time.
Paced well below the ceiling
For each account: at most 200 DMs an hour and 1,500 a day, at least 12 seconds apart; public replies at most 30 an hour and 150 a day, at least 45 seconds apart. In a burst, each DM and public reply waits its turn: a public reply for up to a day, after which it’s skipped.
Spikes drain, they don’t burst
When a post takes off, sends queue and go out at that steady pace instead of all at once. A send that misses Instagram’s time limits is skipped rather than sent late.
Wording that varies
On Pro, the AI copilot writes up to 10 versions of your DM, and each DM goes out as your own message or one of them, picked at random. Public replies are picked at random from up to 10 you write, on any plan.
No double sends
Each person gets the link once per automation, however many times they comment. If Instagram delivers the same event twice, it still sends once.
Opt-outs are permanent
Anyone whose reply is just STOP, UNSUBSCRIBE or CANCEL gets one confirmation and is never messaged again by any of your automations, even if you delete and reconnect.
Careful retries
A send that fails for a temporary reason is retried up to five times, with growing gaps. When Instagram says a send is refused, linkpls doesn’t keep trying.
An off switch that works
Pausing an automation also stops any of its sends still waiting in the queue.
Your access, protected
Instagram access tokens are stored encrypted (AES-256-GCM) and refreshed automatically before they expire.
Questions
The full detail on Instagram’s own rules is in our guide to Instagram DM limits.
What happens if one of my posts goes viral?
The DMs line up and go out at a steady pace: at most 200 an hour and 1,500 a day, at least 12 seconds apart. So a spike is spread over the next hours instead of sent in one burst, and your dashboard shows how many are waiting. Instagram only allows a DM reply to a comment for 7 days, so anything still waiting after that is skipped rather than sent late.
Why does linkpls vary the wording?
Someone answering by hand doesn’t paste the same sentence hundreds of times, and followers notice when every reply is identical. On Pro, the AI writes up to 10 versions of your DM and each DM picks one at random, and public replies are picked at random from up to 10 you write.
Can Instagram restrict my account for using automation?
No tool can promise Instagram will never act on an account. What linkpls does is follow the rules Meta sets for its official API and send far below the limits Meta documents, which is what keeps accounts out of trouble.
Does linkpls ever post something I didn’t write?
No. It only sends the DMs and public replies you set up. The AI copilot on Pro writes drafts, and nothing is sent until you save or send it.
What happens to my data if I leave?
Remove linkpls from your Instagram settings or send a data deletion request, and your account, automations, conversations, leads and posts are deleted. Opt-outs are kept so people who said STOP stay unmessaged.
Pick the word you’re tired of typing.
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