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Before you can publish, tailor, or track a post, you connect the accounts you want to post to. Hiveku publishes to every platform directly through its own connections — no third-party scheduler in between. You’ll manage all of this from Marketing > Social > Accounts.
Supported platforms: Facebook Pages, Instagram Business, LinkedIn (personal profiles and company/org Pages), X (Twitter), TikTok, and Google Business Profile.

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Two ways to connect

Every platform connects in one of two ways. You pick per account, and you can switch later just by reconnecting.
  • Connect with Hiveku (one click) — Hiveku owns the OAuth apps, so there’s no per-customer developer setup and no API keys to paste. Sign in to your business account, pick the Page, profile, or location you want, and you’re done.
  • Use your own app (BYOK) — Prefer your own brand on the consent screen and your own API quota? Create a free developer app on the platform (a guided, one-time setup) and Hiveku uses it instead.
Either path produces the same connection, post history, and analytics. Switching between them later is just a reconnect — nothing else changes.

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Connect an account

1

Open the Accounts tab

Go to Marketing > Social > Accounts. Each platform shows a Connect Account button.
2

Pick your path

The connect dialog offers Connect with Hiveku when it’s available for that platform, and a Use your own app option with the exact redirect URI to copy and honest notes on what the platform allows.
3

Authorize in the popup

Complete the platform’s consent screen while logged into the business account you want to post from.
4

Pick what to connect

If the platform hands back more than one thing you manage — several Facebook Pages, Instagram accounts, LinkedIn company Pages, or Google Business locations — Hiveku shows a picker. Check the ones you want; the rest stay available to activate later.

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Per-platform notes

Each platform connects the same way, but each has one thing worth knowing before you post. Open the one you’re wiring up.
What you connect: a Facebook Page (not your personal timeline). Its linked Instagram Business account comes along in the same consent.The gotcha: Page tokens don’t expire, so a Facebook connection generally stays live without periodic reconnects.Full walkthrough: Facebook & Instagram.
What you connect: an Instagram Business account, connected alongside its linked Facebook Page in one Meta consent.The gotcha: every Instagram post requires media — a JPEG image or a video. Text-only posts are rejected. Up to 10 images publish as a single carousel.Full walkthrough: Facebook & Instagram.
What you connect: your personal LinkedIn profile, a company/organization Page, or both.The gotcha: posting to a personal profile is instant, but to post to a company/org Page you must be an admin of that Page. If you don’t administer it, LinkedIn won’t return it in the picker.Full walkthrough: LinkedIn.
What you connect: an X account you post from.The gotcha: X is a Premium feature. X’s API bills per post, so publishing to X requires the Premium plan and is capped at 60 posts per month per account. Posts also enforce the 280-character limit — add a per-platform X override for a shorter version.Full walkthrough: X (Twitter).
What you connect: your TikTok account.The gotcha: TikTok publishes as a draft to your TikTok inbox — you open the TikTok app to pick the audience, set the caption, and post. The Hiveku post shows Publishing until you finalize it, and TikTok allows at most 5 pending drafts per 24 hours.Full walkthrough: TikTok.
What you connect: a Google Business Profile location, for local posts with one photo and an optional link button. If you’ve already connected Google Business Profile for SEO, Hiveku can reuse that connection.The gotcha: leave phone numbers out of the post text — Google rejects posts that include them. Analytics are profile-level only (Google discontinued per-post statistics).Full walkthrough: Google Business Posts.
X (Twitter) is a Premium feature. Because X’s API bills per post, publishing to X requires the Premium plan and is capped at 60 posts per month per account. Everything else about X — 280-character enforcement, per-platform overrides, scheduling — works like any other network.

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Reconnecting

Platforms occasionally revoke or expire a connection — a password change, a token expiry, or a permission that was removed on the platform’s side. When that happens, Hiveku notifies you and the account shows a red status in Marketing > Social > Accounts. Reconnecting is the same popup flow you used the first time. Your post history and analytics are preserved — a reconnect refreshes the credentials without touching anything you’ve already published or scheduled.
Reconnecting is also how you switch a connection between Connect with Hiveku and Use your own app. Pick the other path in the dialog; the account, its history, and its analytics carry straight over.

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What’s Next?

Schedule Social Posts

Compose once, tailor per platform, schedule, and publish end to end.

Social Overview

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Connect Social Accounts

The platform-by-platform connection walkthrough with setup guides.

AI Assistant

The docked assistant that drafts posts, plans weeks, and turns designs into posts.