Technical requirements and limitations for each platforms
Character limits
Your posts cannot exceed the maximum allowed content length. Different social networks have different limits and we will tell you if you exceed it. SocialBu also shows you the total number of characters that you can have.
For Instagram
- There is no picture or video attachment with the post
- The number of hashtags is exceeding 30
- You have selected unsupported media
For Twitter
The maximum number of characters in your tweet should be 280. If the character limit exceeds 280, you can get an error while publishing your post. For Twitter thread, you can only add up to 50 tweets in a single thread.
For Facebook
Your Facebook post can be up to 63,206 characters long.
For LinkedIn
Your LinkedIn statuses can be up to 700 characters long on company page posts, and 1,300 characters for statuses on individual accounts.
You can upload PDF, PPT and DOC files.
Media attachment
The maximum file upload size for each file is:
Image
You can select any image given that you do not exceed the size limit. Images are also automatically optimized on selection. It is recommended that you optimize the image before uploading it to SocialBu and ideally should be less than 15MB.
Video
SocialBu allows only one video attachment per post and its size should be equal or less than 1000MB.
Supported File Formats
Social Network | Images | Videos |
jpg, png, bmp, tiff, jpeg | mp4, mov, avi | |
jpg, png, jpeg | mp4, mov, avi | |
jpg, png, jpeg, gif | mp4, mov, avi (not supported for personal profiles) |
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jpg, png, webp, gif, jpeg | mp4, mov, avi |
Number of Attachments
Account | Images | Videos |
80 | 1 | |
10 | 1 | |
9 | 1 | |
4 | 1 |