Take control of your social media conversations! This guide will show you how to customise comment controls on X, LinkedIn, and Instagram directly from the Orlo Composer, allowing you to manage who can engage with your social media content.
Things to consider ✅
- Reply controls can be added to X, LinkedIn, and Instagram
❌ For the other networks reply controls are not supported through the API. We review this regularly and any updates will be added to Orlo
Benefits 🙌
- Prevent spamming or unwanted comments on your social media posts
- By limiting who can reply e.g just followers helps to promote better engagement on your post to and have more valuable conversations
How to add reply controls:
1) Navigate to the 'Compose Post ✒️' button in the top right-hand corner. This will bring down the composer tab.
2) Click on 'Select Accounts' and select your Instagram, X or LinkedIn account from the dropdown menu. You can use the split posting mode to add other channels at the same time if posting across different social media channels.
3) After adding your social accounts, using the split post mode, click on the icon of the social platform for which you wish to enable reply controls. Then, locate the drop-down menu above the text box that defaults to 'Everyone.' From this menu, you can choose who can comment on your post.
Reply control options per channel:
For X, the following options are -
- Everyone - Default choice, anyone can reply
- Accounts you follow - Only accounts you follow can reply
- Verified Accounts - Only accounts that are verified can reply
- Only accounts you mention - Only accounts you mention in your post can reply (If you mention no accounts, this option will prevent any replies)
Please note, regardless of your choice for X, the accounts you mention can always reply
For LinkedIn, the following options are -
- Everyone - Default choice, anyone can comment on your post
- No one - Nobody can comment on your post
For Instagram, the following options are -
- Everyone - Default choice, anyone can comment on your post
- No one - Nobody can comment on your post