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If you have been trying to follow other TikTok users, but haven’t had any luck, then this is the post for you.
There are a number of reasons why one might not be able to follow others on TikTok.
To help solve your problem, we compiled different reasons that may explain why you can’t seem to get it done!
TikTok following issues
There’s been a recurring issue with the follow action on TikTok that a lot of our readers have been voicing recently. This situation goes like this: you follow a few people but when you check back in a few minutes, the number of people you’re following has gone back to its previous number and you’re not following the last people you just followed.
This happens without even giving you an error.
There are a number of reasons why TikTok may be preventing you from following, and we’re going to look at the two most common reasons in this short article.
1. You’ve reached the following limit
This is a frequent occurrence for people doing the follow/unfollow strategy for growing a following on TikTok. We previously discussed the following limits on TikTok and have also discussed the unfollow limits and ways through which you can bypass TikTok’s action limits.
To give it a summary, you shouldn’t be performing too many actions that a normal user wouldn’t. Keeping your follow and unfollow limits per day at below 200 is what’s considered acceptable, but that too may change in the future, just like it did on other popular platforms like Instagram.
In the end, you want to keep a balanced strategy of posting viral-worthy content with the right hashtag strategy while actively engaging with other users on the platform.
2. You’ve just placed a link in your TikTok bio
This is the most common reason we’ve seen recently for TikTok preventing you from following without showing any error.
You see when you put a link in your bio and immediately start following other users, TikTok’s algorithms see it as an attempt at spamming the platform so that you can drive traffic to your link. The danger with this is, it could also easily lead to a shadowban, which may take weeks to recover from even if you corrected the issue.
What has worked for us when this happens is to immediately remove the link from our TikTok bio and allow the account to rest for half an hour before attempting to follow once again. Luckily, in our case, we’re yet to suffer any shadowbans, but I attribute that to the fact that we recognized the issue fairly quickly and were able to take measures to mitigate any further risk to our account.
What to do now
In the first instance, the only thing you’ll need to keep in mind moving forward is that there are limits for following on TikTok. In order to be able to follow once again, you’re going to need to start very slowly before you can start hitting the limits.
Luckily for you, there’s a tool you can use for free for 7 days just warm up your account so that you can continue performing the normal follow actions. Once your account is properly set up on this tool, it will spend the 1st 3 days warming up your account and the remaining 4 days performing the following actions at normal speeds.
After the 7-day trial has elapsed, you can choose whether to upgrade your trial or not.
This same strategy can also be applied in the second case, whereby, after removing the link from your bio, you could warm up your account on this tool and put back the link after a few days.
Related: Is the TikTok Creator Fund worth it?
