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API Limitations per Social Network


API Limitations


As an official partner of Meta, Google, and X, Metricool works closely with all major social media platforms to provide the most comprehensive set of features available. However, certain features may not be accessible due to platform restrictions. Social networks sometimes choose not to make specific functionalities available through their APIs, which means third-party tools, including Metricool, are unable to offer them.


Here is a summary of platform-specific limitations. Click on each platform to see all the details.


🌐 Platforms Overview


Social Network

Publishing Limitations

Inbox Limitations

Reporting Limitations

Facebook

Carousel ads, tagging users/products, adding 'feelings', polls

Reply to pages, like pages, comment reactions

Listening for brand mentions

Instagram

Edit posts, tag private accounts, GIFs, Story add-ons

Hide ad comments, like comments, tag photos

Story poll/slider results, Highlights sync

Threads

GIFs in posts, polls

X (Twitter)

Mixed media, thumbnail customization

Pin posts, add reactions

Demographic data

Bluesky

Quote posts, direct messages, polls

LinkedIn

Articles, author customization, event posts, non-EN-US mentions

Sync private messages, follow/unfollow

View all published posts

Pinterest

Rich Pins, private boards, Story Pins

TikTok

Overlay text, filters

Manage DMs, dislike/remove dislikes

Audience demographic data

YouTube

Community posts, Shorts thumbnails

Pin/hide comments, like/unlike comments

Google Business Profile

Edit CTAs, add multiple images/videos

Flag content, sync reviews with images

View Google listings


📱 Platform-Specific Details


Facebook


Publishing:


  • Edit published posts
  • Publish an ad format (e.g., carousel ad)
  • Post carousels with more than 10 slides
  • Tag users in photos
  • Tag products
  • Add 'feelings' to a post
  • Create a poll
  • Share links to Facebook events, groups, or videos


Inbox:


  • Reply to a Facebook page
  • Like a Facebook page
  • Add reactions to comments
  • Report comments


Instagram


Connect:


  • Add a personal profile


Publishing:


  • Edit published posts
  • Tag private accounts in images or videos
  • Add collaborators with private accounts or age restrictions
  • Publish animated GIFs
  • Use more than 30 hashtags in a post
  • Add Story add-ons (e.g., tickets, swipe-up links, GIFs, locations, hashtags, product tagging)
  • Publish Stories using a Creator account
  • Add more than 10 images to a carousel post
  • Post Trial Reels


Inbox:


  • Hide ad comments
  • Manage comments on inactive or updated ads
  • Engage with Dynamic Ad comments (reply, like, hide, delete)
  • Like comments
  • Comment on tagged photos
  • Sync sponsored posts and re-shared Stories


Reports:


  • View Story poll/slider results
  • Sync Story Highlights


Threads


Publishing:


  • Edit published posts
  • Add animated GIFs to posts
  • Create polls


X (Twitter)


Publishing:


  • Post across multiple accounts
  • Add mixed media in a single tweet
  • Customize thumbnails


Inbox:


  • Pin to profile
  • Add reactions


Reports:


  • Access demographic data


Bluesky


Publishing:


  • Edit published posts
  • Quote Posts.
  • Send direct Messages.
  • Create polls.


LinkedIn


Publishing:


  • Edit published posts
  • Publish LinkedIn articles
  • Customize author name
  • Publish event-type posts
  • Mention accounts that do not have a profile in EN-US language


Inbox:


  • Sync private messages from a user page
  • Follow/unfollow users


Reports:


  • View all published posts over a given period


Pinterest


Publishing:


  • Edit published posts
  • *Publishing Rich Pins, which include extra information like product details or recipes.
  • Managing private boards.
  • Create Story Pins.


TikTok


Publishing:


  • Edit published posts
  • Add overlay text
  • Add voiceovers
  • Apply filters


Inbox:


  • Manage direct messages
  • Dislike or remove dislikes
  • Block users
  • Engage with live or story content
  • Mention users


Reports:


  • Access demographic data (e.g., followers' age range)


YouTube


Publishing:


  • Edit published posts
  • Publish community posts
  • Add custom thumbnails to Shorts


Inbox:


  • Like, unlike, or heart comments
  • Pin comments
  • Hide users from the channel


Google Business Profile


Publishing:


  • Edit published posts
  • Edit CTA
  • Add photos to profiles
  • Publish multiple images or videos
  • Delete published posts


Inbox:


  • Flag inappropriate content
  • Sync reviews with images
  • Access detailed user information
  • View Google listings
  • Like/dislike reviews


Updated on: 04/06/2025

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