If you post to X through IndieViral, you will see a counter of X posts with links. X is the only network with a counter like that, and this post explains why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, Discord, YouTube and the rest let tools like IndieViral publish freely. X works differently: since it moved its API to pay-per-use pricing, it applies a very high operating cost to every post published through it, and considerably more to posts that contain a link. Replies count as posts too, so a link in a first comment is treated the same as a link in the post itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Offering unlimited X posting would mean raising prices for everyone, including people who rarely post to X. Some schedulers have dropped X altogether for this reason. We would rather keep it, keep our prices stable, and put some fair-use guardrails on X instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The count covers all your X accounts together, and replies and first comments count. Posts without links have a fair-use limit (300 a month on Indie, 600 on Pro) that normal use never comes close to; it exists only to stop runaway automation. We only show it to you when you are near the end of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The counter resets on the first day of each month. You can see it in Social Connections<\/strong>, and the post editor tells you how many you have left before you publish, counting the posts you already have scheduled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can buy packs of 50 extra X posts with links for $10, on any plan. Pack posts are used only after your monthly ones run out, and they never expire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n X says it no longer penalizes posts with links. Even so, posts led by a link tend to get fewer likes and replies than posts led by your own words, images or video: in Buffer’s data for 2025, link posts had the lowest engagement rate of any post type on X. So when you post a trailer or a devlog, open with the thing itself and let the link come second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Every other network keeps working as before, with no limits. If you have questions about any of this, write to us at admin@indieviral.com.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you post to X through IndieViral, you will see a counter of X posts with links. X is the only network with a counter like\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indieviral.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indieviral.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indieviral.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indieviral.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.indieviral.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/www.indieviral.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indieviral.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indieviral.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indieviral.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Need more?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
A tip while we are at it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n