Question 1

Is autoposting on Telegram against the rules?

Accepted Answer

No. The Telegram Bot API explicitly supports scheduled sendMessage, sendPhoto, and sendMediaGroup calls from a bot that has been added as a channel administrator with posting rights. The rules to respect are the published Bot API rate limits — roughly 30 messages per second across chats and 1 per second per chat — and Telegram's anti-spam ToS, which apply equally to manual and automated posts.

Question 2

How much time does autoposting actually save per editor?

Accepted Answer

For the three-channel, twelve-posts-a-day shape used above, a single editor saves about 4 hours 25 minutes per day, or roughly 17 hours per five-day week, once attention-residue is counted. Smaller workloads save less in absolute hours but proportionally more in fragmented attention; very large workloads save more on the active side and the context-switch overhead becomes constant.

Question 3

Will my Telegram subscribers notice the posts are automated?

Accepted Answer

Not if the autoposting tool sends as the bot administrator (not as a forwarded message). The "Forwarded from" header is what tips subscribers off — sending natively keeps the post indistinguishable from a hand-typed one. The mechanic is covered step by step in Telegram Auto Post Without the Forwarded Tag.

Question 4

Does autoposting hurt engagement on Telegram?

Accepted Answer

Not from the posting mechanism itself. Engagement drops happen when the content gets stale — repeating the same template, scheduling at hours when the audience is asleep, or syndicating identical copy across channels with overlapping subscribers. Autoposting amplifies whatever the editorial baseline is; if the baseline is good, ERR (Engagement Rate per Reach) and view velocity stay flat or improve because consistency replaces variance.

Question 5

Can I mix autoposting and manual posting on the same channel?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The Bot API does not distinguish between scheduled and live sends, so a channel can have a queued morning batch and an editor typing live in the afternoon without any visible seam. The recommended split is "predictable cadence on autoposting, breaking news live" — that captures most of the time savings without sacrificing the immediacy of the live channel.

Question 6

What is the cheapest way to try autoposting before committing?

Accepted Answer

Most autoposting tools — including Autogram — have a free tier sufficient for one channel and a few dozen posts per month. Schedule one full week, measure your weekly editor-time delta, then decide. The math in this article uses production numbers, but every team's mix of writing time vs context switches is slightly different and a one-week trial reflects yours specifically.