At a Glance
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Your Control & Privacy:
Every action is entirely user-initiated. GaggleAMP only tracks or posts what you explicitly authorize. It does not access private messages, friend lists, or any content you haven’t chosen to share. Your login details remain secure, and you can disconnect any account at any time. -
Why Connect?
To complete activities (like posting, liking, or commenting) within GaggleAMP, you need to connect your social networks. This connection allows the platform to perform specific actions on your behalf, track your engagement, and award points based on your activity.
What GaggleAMP Can Do for You
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Perform Activities:
When you complete an activity, GaggleAMP uses the granted permissions to post, like, comment, or share content as you direct. -
Track & Analyze:
The platform gathers engagement data in aggregate to help you and your manager understand the reach and performance of your posts. -
Gamification:
Points and rewards are given based on your approved activities.
Here’s what you need to know about the permissions for your favorite social media networks.
LinkedIn Permissions
GaggleAMP would like to:
- Use your basic profile information, including name, photo, headline, and public profile URL.
- Use your name and photo.
- These two points allow GaggleAMP and your Gaggle Manager to have greater insight into who is a Member of the Gaggle.
- Retrieve your posts, comments, reactions, and other engagement data.
- This is how you are able to complete LinkedIn activities that post new updates as you. GaggleAMP will only share the posts that you select and will only report on engagement data in aggregate.
- Create, modify, and delete comments and reactions on posts on your behalf.
- This is how you are able to complete "Share", "Comment", or "Like" activities on LinkedIn. GaggleAMP will not share anything or engage with a post unless you approve.
- Create, modify, and delete posts, comments, and reactions on your behalf.
- This allows Gaggle to 'React' or 'Comment' on posts as these types of activities are generated.
- Retrieve the number of 1st-degree connections within your network.
- This is used to allow GaggleAMP and your Gaggle Manager to see the total number of connections you have. This gives your Manager insight into the total reach of content to see how large of a group it is seen by.
Please note: Both for X and Linkedin, GaggleAMP exclusively tracks and manages posts and engagements made through its platform without accessing, modifying, or influencing any personal LinkedIn activity outside of GaggleAMP.
Users have full control over their activity, choosing whether to schedule posts, repost content, or engage with others' posts—such as liking, commenting, or sharing—based on the actions they opt to complete within GaggleAMP. The platform only shares posts and interactions that users explicitly schedule or engage with, ensuring that all activity remains entirely user-driven and despite having the ability to delete or unlike, it’s not something GaggleAMP does.
In case you want to connect your business page, you will also allow GaggleAMP to:
- Manage your organizations' pages and retrieve reporting data. This is how GaggleAMP is able to perform activities in regards to your company pages and/or report interactions on your company pages.
- Retrieve your organization’s posts, comments, reactions, and other engagement data. This is how GaggleAMP is able to report on your interactions with your organization's company posts.
- Create, modify, and delete posts, comments, and reactions on your organization’s behalf. This is how you are able to complete "Share", "Comment", or "Like" activities on a LinkedIn company page. GaggleAMP will not share anything or engage with a post unless you decide to.
To learn more about the visibility of your LinkedIn profile data as it applies to third-party applications, please visit the LinkedIn Help Center.
X Permissions
This Application will be able to:
- View posts in your timeline (including protected posts), as well as your Lists and collections.
- When having the Auto-Amp feature enabled, GaggleAMP can recommend posts that are more relevant to your interests, ensuring that you share and interact with content that fits your personal or company brand.
- View your profile information and account settings for X.
- This is what allows you to share content from the Gaggle to your X account.
- See accounts you follow, mute, and block.
- This function helps calculate your total reach of posts on the GaggleAMP analytics and also helps facilitate the ‘Follow’ activity in GaggleAMP.
- Follow and unfollow accounts on your behalf.
- GaggleAMP and your Gaggle Manager use the total number of followers to calculate the total reach of content to see how large of a group it is reaching. Your manager can also make an action available in the Gaggle for you to follow certain new people. It also allows you to perform a ‘Follow’ activity from the GaggleAMP platform.
- Update your profile and account settings.
- GaggleAMP won’t modify your profile and account settings,
- Create and delete posts for yourself and interact with posts created by other users (like, unlike, reply to a post, repost, etc.) on your behalf.
- This allows you to share posts on your timeline and engage with other people’s posts through GaggleAMP. GaggleAMP will only share or engage with posts based on the activities you approve and execute on the platform. The only exception is if Auto-Share on X is enabled, which must be activated by the Member.
- GaggleAMP does not have the ability to remove, unlike, or delete any actions taken on social platforms. Any engagement completed through GaggleAMP remains in place unless manually adjusted by the user on the social platform itself.
- Create, manage, and delete Lists and Collections on your behalf.
- GaggleAMP has an activity to ‘Follow List’ which a Gaggle Manager may serve to a Member when they want them to follow a list on X.
- Mute, block, and report accounts on your behalf.
- GaggleAMP will only interact with the accounts you authorize, meaning any accounts you have muted or blocked will not be considered.
To learn more about third-party apps and log in sessions, visit the X Help Center.
Facebook and Instagram Permissions
Facebook Profiles
Facebook requires that you authorize your account first by granting it access to:
- Your name and profile picture, email address, timeline posts, or friends list. This allows GaggleAMP to display your Facebook profile, compare the posts you shared from GaggleAMP and your feed, and estimate your shared content’s potential reach.
Instagram Pages
If an Instagram activity appears on your feed, and if you’re using the desktop version, you will see this message inviting you to complete the activity through your GaggleAMP Mobile App for Apple or Android once you click on it.
On your mobile device, tap to complete the Instagram activity. GaggleAMP will open the Instagram app, allowing you to perform the activity directly.
Learn more about the data you share with third-party apps on the Facebook Help Center or Instagram Help Center.
TikTok Permissions
TikTok requires you to authorize your account to allow a connection with GaggleAMP.
Note: Just like the other social media network connections, GaggleAMP cannot and will not ever post content on your behalf without permission. In fact, TikTok further enforces this notion by allowing GaggleAMP to go no further than 'Staging' the Activity's Video to your account. To finalize the share to your network, you can move the video from 'Staged' to 'Shared' via the TikTok mobile app.
By authorizing the connection, GaggleAMP would like to:
- Read your profile info (avatar, display name). This allows GaggleAMP to read which profile has posted a TikTok video sent from GaggleAMP
- Read your public videos on TikTok. This allows GaggleAMP to identify if you have posted a video sent from GaggleAMP.
- Publish videos to Tiktok. This allows GaggleAMP to 'stage' a video on TikTok.
To learn more about the data you share with third-party apps, visit TikTok Account and Privacy Settings or the TikTok Privacy Policy.
GaggleAMP can help you become an employee influencer on TikTok. Learn more at Creating an Activity on GaggleAMP to Help Employees Become TikTok Influencers.
Frequently Asked Questions:
“It seems like I am granting a lot of access to my social media profiles to use GaggleAMP. Can you explain in simpler terms what GaggleAMP cannot see on my social media networks?”
Absolutely! First and foremost, your social media networks are just that — your social media networks. When you permit GaggleAMP the ability to act on your behalf within a social platform, GaggleAMP serves as an authorized intermediary between your expressed intention to take action and the execution of that action. For example, when you click a GaggleAMP Activity's "Like on LinkedIn" button, GaggleAMP will officially register your "Like" on the appropriate LinkedIn post.
GaggleAMP cannot, will not, and does not:
- See, engage with, or look at any content on your social networks we did not post that is not public (e.g. Twitter is public — anyone can see your Tweets, but Facebook is not public)
- See your friends list
- See what you post on your private social networks
- Engage as you or see what you express in a private Channel like you would find on Facebook or LinkedIn
- Have no access to your private conversations or direct messages
- Impersonate you in any way
GaggleAMP will pull in performance details on an Activity in aggregate, meaning if ten people in the organization all share the same Activity, we will report an aggregate number of people reached, interactions on the post, etc. Your employer cannot pin-point this back to you and your network.
"I am concerned about my employer seeing my social media networks. Can they see what I do on social media?"
We can certainly understand that concern. GaggleAMP is a platform that is being purchased by your company and managed by a coworker, or possibly even yourself. By granting access to your social media accounts for GaggleAMP to post on your behalf, you still must opt-in to every Activity. This means you have full control over what is posted to your social media networks and when.
Further:
- Your Gaggle Manager only sees in aggregate the performance of the Activities completed (or rejected)
- While your Gaggle Manager can see if you have a network connected or expired, they cannot log in as you
- GaggleAMP cannot look at any of your private social media activities, and your Gaggle Manager cannot use GaggleAMP to do so either
- Your company cannot use GaggleAMP to see the pages you follow, what groups you interact with, the friends you follow, or the content you post to a private network via the GaggleAMP platform
- Your Gaggle Manager cannot log in as you
- No password information is ever shared with your employer
"If I am connecting my social media network to GaggleAMP, am I sharing my password or login credentials to you or my employer?"
No, you are not. You never actually provide your password to GaggleAMP, that’s all handled entirely within the social media platform. The authorization to act on your behalf is maintained via secret tokens only known to GaggleAMP and the social platform. Your employer cannot use GaggleAMP to access your login credential or social media networks.
"I previously connected a social media account to GaggleAMP but I no longer want GaggleAMP to post on the account’s behalf. Can I remove the connection?"
You sure can! Simply click your avatar icon in the upper right corner of the GaggleAMP platform, click ‘Account Settings,' and select ‘Networks and Integrations’ on the pop-up window. To remove authorization to a particular social media account, simply click ‘remove.’ Should you choose to re-add it at a later time, you can do so from this same location.
"I clicked the 'Send to TikTok' activity in GaggleAMP but my video was never posted on TikTok. Why is that?"
Once you have executed an activity on GaggleAMP, or "clicked the send to TikTok button," there is still one additional step that needs to be completed inside the TikTok app. This button simply stages the content in TikTok and the final action, to post the video, needs to be completed from the TikTok app. Here you will need to review the notifications in your TikTok inbox and locate the video activity from GaggleAMP to post.
If you need help finding this step, visit our knowledge base article on completing the TikTok Video activity.
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