Facebook Friend Messaging Limits?

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Hi Warrior Forum,

I'm new here. I have a question about facebook messaging limits. I have over 4700 friends I have hand-scraped and friended on facebook in the fitness niche for a Kickstarter I am going to launch in a few weeks. I want to send each friend a personalized message with a bot I have on the day I launch. Each message will be slightly unique with the friends first name (but no spun text).

I am wondering what the rules are on how many messages I can send before it starts to look fishy to facebook and I do not want to risk getting blocked or flagged since it has taken me so long to gather these friends. I can set the bot to send a message every 5,4,3,2, or 1 minute apart.

Please let me know what you think is the best approach.

Thank you!
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  • Profile picture of the author laurencewins
    To me that sounds like spam and Facebook would penalise you but I don't know how.
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  • Profile picture of the author alr510011
    If I am already personal friends with the people I am messaging and I have had the accounts for over half a year and have made posts and been active you still think I will be flagged?
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  • Profile picture of the author FreedomBlogger
    There is no specific number as the answer to your main question - you should know when Facebook is saying you are doing too much, too fast.

    I think the best approach would be to genuinely approach people on Facebook

    I wish you the best success!

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  • Profile picture of the author JoeFerguson
    Not sure how closely they monitor personal messages like that but if you're sending them all at the same time in mass then I would guess you'd more likely get in trouble.

    A better idea would be making a FB page and trying to obtain the same amount of users. Then you could use posts to direct them to your kickstarter and even boost or sponsor your posts to get more eyes on them.
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    • Profile picture of the author alr510011
      Hopefully spreading each message apart by 4-5 minutes will keep me under the radar. I was banking on the fact that since they are private individual messages with friends, facebook wouldn't be so suspicious.

      The page strategy would be my second angle for driving traffic but I was hoping to do the individual personalized messages first to get the word out first.

      I don't know the conversion rate but I feel like a personalized message with the persons name sent through the facebook messanger would have a better conversion rate than wall postings. What do you think?

      Thanks,
      Adam
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      • Profile picture of the author JohnnyPlan
        Originally Posted by alr510011 View Post

        I was banking on the fact that since they are private individual messages with friends, facebook wouldn't be so suspicious.
        Of all things, Facebook would be more suspicious if you are spamming personal messages. They can spy on your content and have scripts set up to determine if the same message is being sent to more than one person. Why would they not? Also, how well do you know any of these people, such as have you actually tried to PM any before or just now plan to start with the 'ad campaign'?
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  • Profile picture of the author sathiswebsite1986
    Same thing just happened to me...I have no idea why they would "Warn" us...they're our friends aren't they?
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  • Profile picture of the author alr510011
    I haven't begun the messaging yet so I haven't been warned but what type of frequency or time intervals were you using between messages that set the warning off? And how many people were you trying to message at a time?
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  • Profile picture of the author xflavor
    I have found that You can message up to 250 people at once.
    More detail: https://www.facebook.com/help/131313586947248
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  • Profile picture of the author alr510011
    hmm I think this is just for groups. I am focusing on current friends that aren't in a group of mine.
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  • Profile picture of the author reg0903
    Bro i suggest to convert your account to business account trust me you will earn money if know how to monetize your friends... Once you account convert to a business page you can send message to your friend 5,000 day one by one without even getting block or ban...

    you can send mass messages using business page unlike personal account. If you apply my suggestion i am pretty you can earn money...
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    • Profile picture of the author alr510011
      Originally Posted by reg0903 View Post

      Bro i suggest to convert your account to business account trust me you will earn money if know how to monetize your friends... Once you account convert to a business page you can send message to your friend 5,000 day one by one without even getting block or ban...

      you can send mass messages using business page unlike personal account. If you apply my suggestion i am pretty you can earn money...
      Can you please elaborate? I am very interested in this approach. Can I change my personal account into a business account?

      And with business accounts you can send mass private messages to everybody so the message shows up in their messenger inbox?

      Thank you for the help!
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  • Profile picture of the author alr510011
    Just did some research on this. You cannot message people through your facebook business page unless they have messaged you first so I do not think this will work.
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  • When the facebook said to you that you have done too many than wait for some time because from your original thread it seems like the spam and the facebook will panlise you.

    Thank you
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  • Profile picture of the author garysvpa
    Originally Posted by alr510011 View Post

    Hi Warrior Forum,

    I'm new here. I have a question about facebook messaging limits. I have over 4700 friends I have hand-scraped and friended on facebook in the fitness niche for a Kickstarter I am going to launch in a few weeks. I want to send each friend a personalized message with a bot I have on the day I launch. Each message will be slightly unique with the friends first name (but no spun text).

    I am wondering what the rules are on how many messages I can send before it starts to look fishy to facebook and I do not want to risk getting blocked or flagged since it has taken me so long to gather these friends. I can set the bot to send a message every 5,4,3,2, or 1 minute apart.

    Please let me know what you think is the best approach.

    Thank you!
    According to Facebook:

    1.) You can message up to 250 people at once.
    2.) If you've been blocked from sending messages on Facebook, it may be because you sent a lot of messages recently or people reported your messages as unwelcome.
    3.) If you're blocked from sending messages, you may also be temporarily blocked from sending friend requests.
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  • Profile picture of the author reg0903
    Okay... for example you have personal account with 5k real targeted friends and you wanted to monetize your friend via private messaging.

    Let me explain.

    If you willing to convert your personal account to a business page you agree that all of your friends will convert to likes...

    ex. 5k friends will convert 5k likes.
    once these people convert to like you can continue to send a private messages, remember once you send all text messages without link you can send to all of your friends without getting any trouble but you'll face 3x captcha manual solving once you lapse to 100 messages. Once you already solve 3x captcha facebook will not show any captcha anymore...

    All message are all inbox because they already connected to you before.. all people connected to you is all your friends so the message you've send to them are inbox.

    that's a promise, but if you send people unconnected to you the message will go to other folder,

    want to Learn more? Please leave a private message
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  • Profile picture of the author caretaker
    If i were you i would leave at least 20 mins.. between each post, other wise it would'nt
    seem natural.
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  • Profile picture of the author JoelDean
    Originally Posted by alr510011 View Post

    Hi Warrior Forum,

    I'm new here. I have a question about facebook messaging limits. I have over 4700 friends I have hand-scraped and friended on facebook in the fitness niche for a Kickstarter I am going to launch in a few weeks. I want to send each friend a personalized message with a bot I have on the day I launch. Each message will be slightly unique with the friends first name (but no spun text).

    I am wondering what the rules are on how many messages I can send before it starts to look fishy to facebook and I do not want to risk getting blocked or flagged since it has taken me so long to gather these friends. I can set the bot to send a message every 5,4,3,2, or 1 minute apart.

    Please let me know what you think is the best approach.

    Thank you!
    This wouldn't work anymore if done on a single account. But if you have dozens of accounts it is doable.
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  • Profile picture of the author johncalkovich
    It's not a bug - FB only restricts the quantity of companion appeals you can make in a day (once more, no one truly comprehends what the "day by day" farthest point is, guessing to the point that the utmost is for a 24 hour period is likewise not correct). They do this to keep individuals from misusing the framework - spammers, individuals simply utilizing FB to publicize, and so forth. I ran into the cutoff a few times when beginning up on FB - when you experience and include hundred secondary school cohorts, a hundred+ companions and collaborators from school/work, and so on it doesn't take long to hit that utmost in a day. Sort of baffling, yet most individuals don't pursue into it much they get their records setup.
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  • Profile picture of the author wawanjogja
    looks like a spam, should be human activity, like there post, share, etc, then play your bot with random time
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  • Profile picture of the author Buckie34
    A trick on Facebook messaging. When your message box is up start with "a". Enter it and one everyone of your friends with that letter will be there, just keep entering until no one is left, then "b" and "c" and so on. You can get all 4700 in one message. Well it is only one message but I have no idea what Facebook does.Plus to enter all of them will take a bit.

    You can open a yahoo account and from there you can import all your Facebook friends and then you have their emails address which you can upload into Excel and have the whole database at your fingertips!
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  • Profile picture of the author chakazullle
    you need time delay beetween the messages
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  • Profile picture of the author Christian Grey
    Send 10 requests daily and you wont have a problems. Also keep in mind that you delete the requests which didn't accepted you.
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