Social Media Scheduling for Political Campaigns in 2026 [Updated Guide]
BulkPublish is a social media scheduler for political campaigns, candidates and elected officials. A campaign posts a lot, quickly, from several people, and nothing can go out that the campaign has not signed off. BulkPublish holds every draft for approval, groups the candidate’s, the party’s and each local branch’s accounts into sets, and lets the campaign calendar be queued in batches. It makes no claim about election or political advertising law, so checking posts against those rules stays with your own team.
Updated October 2026. The limits, post types and integrations below are read from the app itself every time this site is built.
The networks this audience uses most
These are the networks this page is about, with what BulkPublish can publish to each and the caption length it checks before a post is queued. Every one has a guide of its own.
| Network | What you can post | Caption limit |
|---|---|---|
| Post, Reel, and Story | 63,206 characters | |
| X / Twitter | Tweet | 280 characters |
| Feed Photo, Feed Video, Reel, Story, and Carousel | 2,200 characters | |
| TikTok | Video and Photo Slideshow | 2,200 characters |
| YouTube | Video and Short | 5,000 characters |
| Telegram | Post | 4,096 characters |
That is where this kind of work usually goes, but it is not the limit. BulkPublish publishes to 15 networks in total, and one post can go to every one you have connected in the same click. The rest are:
What this workflow needs
What a fast-moving campaign needs from a scheduler:
- Post approvals. A post can wait for a second pair of eyes. Whoever signs off approves or rejects it, and only an approved post reaches the queue.
- Recurring schedules. Set a slot once, daily, weekly or monthly, and posts go out on it without anybody opening the app that morning.
- Bulk publishing. Paste or upload a batch and the whole set is created at once, each post checked against its own network before it is queued.
- Channel sets. Group the accounts that belong together and publish to the whole group in one click, rather than picking accounts one at a time.
Working with AI agents
For a campaign this means an assistant can draft the day’s posts from the briefing, and every one waits until the campaign approves it.
BulkPublish runs a hosted MCP server, so an AI assistant can do this work with you instead of you copying its answer into another tab. It exposes 20 tools over OAuth: an agent can see your channels, draft a post, put it in the queue, publish it and read the numbers back afterwards. Nothing to install, no API key to paste.
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Claude -
ChatGPT -
Grok -
Grok Bot -
Muse -
Manus -
Cue -
Cursor -
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Codex CLI -
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Windsurf -
VS Code -
Cline -
Warp -
OpenClaw -
Hermes
Every assistant we support has a setup guide of its own.
Getting started
- Create an account. The free plan does not ask for a card.
- Connect the channels in the table above. Each one is a normal sign-in on that network’s own site, and you can disconnect it whenever you like.
- Set the slots you want to post on, or bring a batch in and give each post its own time.
- Look at the queue the next morning. Anything a network refused says so in that network’s own words, and can be sent again.
Common questions
Does BulkPublish handle political ad disclosure?
No. BulkPublish publishes organic posts and makes no claim about election or advertising law. Each network’s own rules also apply.
Can every post need approval?
Yes. A post can be held for approval and only reaches the queue once somebody signs it off.
Can local branches have their own accounts?
Each branch’s accounts can be a channel set, so a local post goes only there and a national message goes to all of them.
Can we post to Telegram?
Yes. Telegram is one of the networks, alongside Facebook, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.
Is there a free plan?
Yes, and it does not ask for a card. The pricing page lists what each plan connects and how much it posts.
Can an AI assistant post for me?
Yes. The hosted MCP server lets an assistant draft, schedule, publish and read your analytics over OAuth, with nothing to install and no key to paste.
Still stuck? The Help Center walks through it step by step.
Other audiences
BulkPublish has a page for each of these too.
Try it
Create an account, connect your channels, and your first post can be scheduled a couple of minutes later. Free plan, no card, cancel whenever you like.