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Set up comment-to-DM on Instagram or TikTok in ten steps, with a screenshot for every click – plus the shortcut of asking an AI assistant to build it.

Three of Messenger’s four message tags stopped working in April 2026. What a Messenger chatbot can still send, the windows it lives inside, and the one escape hatch bots are not allowed to use.

TikTok’s LIVE comment tools remove comments, they do not answer them. The one automated message TikTok documents, the two keyword systems people confuse, and what to automate instead.

TikTok Shop buyer chat is a separate product from TikTok DMs, with its own API, its own clocks and its own chat bot. What can be automated there, what cannot, and where DM tools really work.

How TikTok direct messages work: the age limit, who can message whom, message requests and the one-shot rule, the privacy settings, and what translation actually covers.

Public comment replies and DMs you can paste, written in TikTok’s register rather than Instagram’s – with the reason each one works and the versions that read as a bot.

What a TikTok Verified Business Account actually gives you for messaging, what the Business Suite contains, and why the native auto-reply everyone cites cannot be found in TikTok’s own documentation.

A TikTok DM bot is either an inbound chatbot, which is ordinary, or a mass outbound sender, which risks the account. How to tell them apart before you buy one.

TikTok splits messaging permission across two OAuth steps, which is why an account can look connected and still never send a DM. The scopes, the webhooks and the ceilings.

A TikTok comment-to-DM flow sends two messages to two different audiences. How to pick the keyword, write the public reply and the DM, and handle everyone who types something else.