Every platform limits how much one channel can post in a day. That limit is set by TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, and Facebook independently, not by StreamLadder. Posts from other apps can count towards it too.
Some limits reset at midnight and others count the number of posts you’ve made over a 24 hour sliding window. This means the time until you can post again sometimes depends on when you posted last rather than the specific date.
A few things are true on every platform:
The limit is per account. Two TikTok accounts, for example, will each have their own limit. When @yourstream is full, @yourstream.clips can still post.
StreamLadder shows you the time before you post. Pick a time a channel is still full, and you see which channel and when it can post again. Press Use to move the post to the moment every channel is free.
The limit: for uploads TikTok allows around 15 posts per account within a 24 hour period. TikTok doesn't publish the exact number and it increases depending on the age and size of the account. If you’re using drafts TikTok allows up to 5 pending drafts per account.
When it frees up: each post counts against the limit for 24 hours. If you posted 15 clips you’ll be able to start posting again 24 hours after the first clip was published. If the limit you’ve encountered is for pending drafts; publishing or deleting your drafts on TikTok will free up space to send new ones.
What StreamLadder knows: TikTok tells us whether a channel can post right now, not how many posts it has left. So we count the posts you’ve scheduled and show when the channel should be able to post again.
What helps: spread your posts over the day, or post some of your clips from a second TikTok channel.
The limit: 100 posts per account within 24 hours. Instagram tells StreamLadder that number for your channel, so we always read yours, not a general one.
When it frees up: each post stops counting against the limit 24 hours after it was published.
What StreamLadder knows: exactly how many posts your channel has left. That makes Instagram the one platform where the time we show is always right.
What helps: Instagram can restrict the publishing of videos too soon after another video so it can help to spread posts out over the day.
The limit: YouTube doesn't publish an official limit. New channels usually get somewhere between 10 and 20 uploads a day. Verifying your channel raises it.
When it frees up: at midnight Pacific time (PT).
What StreamLadder knows: nothing until an upload is refused. After that we remember how many posts your channel managed that day, and warn you one post earlier next time.
What helps: verifying your channel in YouTube Studio can help. YouTube also has anti-spam protections if videos are posted too soon after one another so it’s good to spread posts out over the day.
The limit: 50 posts a day for accounts without Premium, and X also blocks you when you post a lot in a short time.
When it frees up: a burst block clears in about 30 minutes. The daily limit counts in half hour blocks.
What StreamLadder knows: nothing until a post is refused.
What helps: leave at least half an hour between posts to the same account. Premium raises the limit.
The limit: 30 posts per Page within a 24 hour window.
When it frees up: 24 hours after a post is published it will no longer count against the limit total.
What StreamLadder knows: nothing until a post is refused. That is why the app says it can't give a time, and suggests one a few hours out that you can change.
What helps: Spread posts out over the day to avoid anti-spam protections.
Open the red post on your calendar. It says which channel hit its limit and when that channel can post again. Press Move to to move the post to that time. Nothing is posted again on its own: a retry into a full channel fails again, and repeated attempts can look like spam to the platform.
Want it out anyway? Download to post manually and post it from the platform's own app.
