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How Many People Can You Follow on TikTok?
TikTok, the video social media app and a competitor to Instagram, has its own set of follow limits. As with most other platforms, this is in place to prevent abuse.
When you exceed the limits of following on TikTok, your account could easily get in trouble.
In this post, we will discuss what you should know about following limits for TikTok so that you don’t ruin your account too easily!
Related: What to do when you’re shadowbanned on TikTok
You’re Following Too Fast
When you see this message start to show, this should be a sign that you’ve exceeded the limits of following and need to stop following.
You see, when you keep going beyond the limits frequently, it is likely that TikTok may start shadowbanning your videos and thus reduce your audience reach, which in turn will cripple your growth on the platform.
PS: here’s a tool to check if you’re shadowbanned.
We’ll talk about the follow limits shortly but before we do, I’d like to show you how you can avoid reaching these limits by automating your follow activities.
Limit Reached You Are Unable to Follow
When you follow too many people on TikTok in a single day, you’re likely to encounter a pop-up error that says “limit reached you are unable to follow“.
When this happens, you should wait for 24hr before attempting to follow again.
It’s recommended to avoid reaching these limits because it might easily lead to unpleasant shadowbans.
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Does the Follow Unfollow Method Work on TikTok?
The follow-unfollow method, in my experience, works way better than on Instagram.
With the current follow limits on TikTok, if you target users in the same niche as yourself you should be able to gain a follow ratio of between 35% on the lower side and 65% on the higher side.
The key to the follow-unfollow method is to ensure your account sticks to a specific niche, is properly set up with an attractive profile image and you’re posting interesting and engaging videos.
In order to understand the limits for following on TikTok, we’re going to look at the two different methods of following:
- using automation to follow on TikTok and
- following manually on TikTok
Depending on which method you prefer, I’d really recommend that you at least try both because some accounts will gain more by following manually while others seem to do much better when automated.
Let’s start by automating our follow actions on TikTok.
Using Automation to Avoid Exceeding TikTok’s Follow Limit
Fueltok TikTok Auto-Follow Tool
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I’ve been using FuelTok for a couple of months now, and it’s currently my favorite automation tool for TikTok. You can auto-follow, auto-unfollow, auto-like, and even auto-view videos of fellow TikTok users in the same niche as yourself.
It also has a neat little feature where you can exchange engagement with other users also using this tool.
For instance, when you post a new video, this tool will detect that you’ve posted within 30 minutes and send you about 50 likes and a lot more views just to boost your video.
Ever since I’ve grown a handful of TikTok accounts into their tens of thousands before selling them at a profit.
The reason Fueltok works so well is that they have an inbuilt system of warming accounts, whether new or aged.
When you load your account on Fueltok and start automating, the system will warm your account for about 2 days by mimicking a normal user’s activities before gradually increasing the pace at which it follows other users.
The tool also offers 3 levels of speed for how quickly you want it to follow:
- Slow
- Medium
- Fast
All three have been set not to exceed the following limit, so, it’s safe to pick any of them.
Fueltok is offering a free 7-day trial of this tool. It really is the best in the market at the time of writing this article.
TikTok Follow Limit When Following Manually
When manually following on TikTok, there are two limits to consider: the daily follow limit, as well as the hourly follow limit. My approach towards these limits is to spread them out almost equally throughout the day.
Let’s begin with the daily limits.
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TikTok Daily Follow Limit
How Many People Can You Follow on TikTok per Day?
You can safely follow up to 200 users per day on TikTok.
However, the current TikTik follow limits largely depend on the age of the account. Newer accounts tend to reach pretty fast while aged ones tend to do more will much fewer follow blocks.
For instance, we noticed on TikTok accounts that we created and started following on the same day, we could only do about 140 follows per day before the follow blocks began popping up.
TikTok Follow Limit per Hour
How Many People Can You Follow on TikTok per Hour?
As mentioned earlier, the best practice when manually performing follow actions on TikTok is to spread them out evenly.
Let’s say you only have 8hrs/day to perform all actions on your TikTok. This comes down to about 25 follows per hour.
There’s one more follow limit to keep in mind: You can only perform up to 15 follow actions in one session.
With this in mind, you can do 10 follow actions in one session and then rest for 10 – 15 minutes before embarking on the next session until you reach 25 follow actions for the hour.
How Many TikTok Accounts Can You Have in 2023?
In 2023, you are allowed to have up to 3 TikTok accounts on the same device.
This is a change from the previous limit of 5. While some people may see this as a bad thing, it actually helps reduce the amount of spam on the platform.
The only way to have more than the limit of TikTok accounts is by having additional devices and using proxies.
However, this is not recommended for complete newbies as it can lead to your accounts being suspended.
TikTok 10k Follow Limit
Can You Follow More Than 10k on TikTok?
There are a lot of unsubstantiated claims published about the maximum number of users you can follow on TikTok. Most people will tell you that you can only follow up to 2000 users and that if you wish to follow more, you’d have to unfollow some.
In our own experiments, we’ve had accounts that were at one time following more than 9k followers (we used an automation tool to follow this much).
From what I’ve been able to gather from private marketing forums that I’m a member of, you can actually follow up to 10K users.
Do I think it’s a great idea to follow that many users?
Not really.
I think (particularly) if you’re running a niche TikTok account, you should only follow accounts in the same niche as your own. The fewer you follow the easier it’s going to be to keep up with their content and interact with them.
This helps TokTik to know to who to show your content.
What Happens When You Get to 10k Followers on TikTok?
I don’t believe it’s beneficial to anyone to be following 10k users on TikTok. When you follow up to 10k use on TikTok, you won’t be able to follow anyone else unless you unfollow some.
Unfollowing that many users will obviously take time, especially because there are unfollow limits for TikTok that you’ll need to observe.
Nonetheless, there are automation tools for TikTok that you can use to gradually unfollow.
What to Do When You Hit Follow Blocks on TikTok
A good practice when you start getting follow blocks on TikTok is to wait between 1 – 2 hours before attempting to start following.
How Many TikTok Accounts Can You Have?
