r/socialmedia
Social Media
Founded May 2008 · Public — anyone can post
A sub for professional discussion about social media, news, and best practices.
Members
2,119,225
2.1M
Online now
—
not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
9.3
from the last 100 posts, spanning 10.7 days
Comments per post
—
no sample yet
Growth · 7d
—
not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+0.2%
+4K members · ≈36d
Published rules
12
3 mention promotion — quoted below
Last post
Sep 12
sampled Sep 13
Distinct posters
92%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Aug 7 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
What works in r/socialmedia
Every post in a recent sample, labelled by format. Share is how much of the sample used that format; average score is how it performed.
| Format | Share of posts | Avg score |
|---|---|---|
| Question | 41% | 29 |
| Discussion | 22% | 54 |
| Lessons / story | 16% | 44 |
| Rant | 10% | 138 |
| How-to | 3% | 63 |
| Tool comparison | 3% | 45 |
| Show & tell | 3% | 37 |
| News / link | 1% | 15 |
| Promo | 1% | 0 |
Based on 73 posts sampled in September 2026. A sample, not the full history.
- Median score
- 14
- Top 10% score
- 145
- Text posts
- 100%
- Got no replies
- 0%
- Busiest windows
- Fri 17:00 UTC, Wed 10:00 UTC
Posting rules, in plain words
Self-promotion is judged case by case. Post flair is required.
- Professional discussion: This community is for social media professionals to discuss strategies and industry-related topics.
- Don't be lazy: When posting for help, sharing ideas, or asking questions, provide comprehensive details and context to ensure your post is clear and meaningful to other readers.
- Enhance link shares with commentary: While linking to external articles is valuable, please include your own commentary, context, or analysis to foster meaningful discussion within our community.
- Self-Promotion: While we appreciate your passion, please refrain from unsolicited self-promotion or driving traffic to personal channels.
Quoted from the community’s own published rules. Always re-read them before posting.
What a good comment looks like here
- — Offers specific, actionable advice or solutions
- — Shares first-hand experience or data to support claims
- — Acknowledges the complexity of social media issues
- — Directly addresses the original poster's question or pain point
- — Discloses affiliation when promoting a tool
What r/socialmedia's rules say about promotion
3 of 12 published rules mention promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.
Self-Promotion
rule 6 of 12
While we appreciate your passion, please refrain from unsolicited self-promotion or driving traffic to personal channels.
Removal reason shown to posters: This post is self-promotion.
Spam/advertising or click bait
rule 7 of 12
Spam = ban. This is your first and final warning.
Removal reason shown to posters: Spam
No buying or selling accounts, likes, engagements etc.
rule 8 of 12
Don't do it. We have a zero-tolerance policy.
Removal reason shown to posters: Account selling
The other 9
- Professional discussion
- Be civil
- Don't be lazy
- Enhance link shares with commentary
- This is not a help desk
- No posting petitions or surveys
- No job postings
- No memes, screenshots or comics
- All posts need a flair
Read from r/socialmedia’s published rules on Sep 13. Communities change their rules without notice and enforce requirements (karma, account age, flair) that may live in the sidebar or automod rather than here — the source page is the authority.
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r/socialmedia — frequently asked
How many members does r/socialmedia have?
r/socialmedia has 2,119,225 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 13. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/socialmedia growing?
Over the last ≈36 days r/socialmedia changed by +0.2% — a gain of 4K members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".
How active is r/socialmedia?
Around 9.3 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 10.7 days. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.
When was r/socialmedia created?
r/socialmedia was founded in May 2008 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Who posts in r/socialmedia?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 92% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Sep 12. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.
Can I promote my product in r/socialmedia?
r/socialmedia publishes 12 rules and 3 of them address promotion. The first, “Self-Promotion”, says: While we appreciate your passion, please refrain from unsolicited self-promotion or driving traffic to personal channels. Read the full rule text on this page and the community's rules page before posting — moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.
How do I monitor r/socialmedia for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/socialmedia into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/socialmedia's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/socialmedia's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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