LinkedIn Safety Options

Birdie's options contain several settings related to LinkedIn safety. Generally, you should not be doing anything in high volume in a short amount of time. This includes:

• Opening up many different profiles in multiple browser tabs at the same time. Even if done by hand, opening many profiles at the same time makes your actions look like a scraper from LinkedIn's point of view.
• Repeating a simple process as quickly as possible for many repetitions. For example: Opening a profile → Sending a connection request → Closing the browser tab → Opening another profile → Sending a connection request → Etc. Even if done by hand, the repetition can make your actions look like a bot to LinkedIn.
• Related to the example above, LinkedIn also considers sending a high volume of connection requests and/or messages over a short period of time to be bot-like.

We've designed Birdie's Bulk Actions to:

1. Not do anything too quickly.
2. Limit the number of connection requests you can send out per day.
3. Limit the number of messages and InMails you can send out per hour.
4. Limit the number of profiles you can add to your CRM per hour.

There are a couple of settings in Birdie's options to control safety-related behavior.

Changing Birdie's LinkedIn safety options

Open Birdie's options, click on Optional Settings (1), and then LinkedIn Safety (2).

The relevant Birdie options are:

• Average delay between fetching profiles
  • This controls the amount of time Birdie waits between fetching LinkedIn profiles.
  • Higher values are safer.
• Average delay between sending connection requests, messages and InMails
  • This controls the amount of time Birdie waits between sending consecutive connection requests, messages, and InMails.
  • Higher values are safer.
• Maximum number of connection requests per day
  • This controls the maximum number of connection requests you can send every 24 hours when using Birdie's Bulk Actions.
  • Lower values are safer.
  • Even if you remove this limit, you will only be able to send 50 connection requests at a time. This means if you want to send 100 connection requests in 1 day, you need to send them in 2 batches of 50.
• Maximum number of messages and InMails per hour
  • This controls the maximum number of messages and InMails you can send per hour when using Birdie's Bulk Actions.
  • Lower values are safer.
  • Even if you remove this limit, you will only be able to send 50 messages or InMails at a time. This means if you want to send 100 messages in less than an hour, you need to send them in 2 batches of 50.
• Maximum number of profiles you can add to your CRM per hour
  • This controls the maximum number of LinkedIn people profiles you can add to your CRM per hour when using Birdie's Bulk Actions.
  • Lower values are safer.
  • Even if you remove this limit, you will only be able to add 50 profiles at a time. This means if you want to add 100 profiles in less than an hour, you need to add them in 2 batches of 50.

What to do when you've hit your limits

If you are using the Task Runner to perform a bulk action and have run into your safety limits, you can schedule your tasks to load in the background. Birdie will wait until you are within limit and then load your tasks in the Task Runner.