BlueSky New Follower Automated Welcome DM Workflow
This workflow automatically detects new followers on BlueSky accounts and sends them pre-set welcome direct messages to enhance interaction efficiency and user experience. It supports paginated retrieval of the followers list to ensure that no new followers are missed, and it stores historical data in local files to achieve incremental updates, avoiding repeated disturbances. It is suitable for content creators and brand accounts, helping them efficiently maintain fan relationships and increase social activity.
Workflow Name
BlueSky New Follower Automated Welcome DM Workflow
Key Features and Highlights
This workflow automatically detects new followers on a BlueSky account and sends a preset welcome direct message (DM) to each new follower, enhancing follower engagement efficiency and user experience. It supports paginated retrieval of follower lists to prevent data omission. By storing historical follower data locally, it enables incremental updates to ensure DMs are sent only to new followers, avoiding repeated messages.
Core Problems Addressed
Manual management and response to new followers is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and prone to omissions or delayed replies. This workflow automatically identifies newly followed users and sends welcome messages, helping users efficiently maintain follower relationships, boost social activity, and increase user retention.
Application Scenarios
- Automatic welcoming of new followers for BlueSky content creators or brand accounts
- Batch management of follower interactions by social media operators
- Guiding or promoting to new followers to improve traffic conversion rates
Main Process Steps
- Scheduled trigger: execute the workflow every 60 minutes
- Session creation: log in using BlueSky account and app password to obtain access token
- Retrieve current follower list (supports paginated fetching)
- Read locally saved historical follower data
- Compare new and old follower lists to filter new followers
- Split and batch process the DIDs of new followers
- Obtain session IDs for each new follower
- Send preset welcome DMs containing custom text and links
- Save the updated follower list to a local file for next comparison
Involved Systems or Services
- BlueSky social platform API (including session creation, follower list retrieval, DM sending interfaces)
- n8n automation platform nodes such as HTTP request, file read/write, code execution, and scheduled trigger
Target Users and Value
- BlueSky personal or business account operators
- Social media managers and content creators
- Users seeking to automate follower management and improve follower engagement efficiency
- Professionals needing regular follower relationship maintenance to enhance user retention and brand image
This workflow leverages automation technology to send real-time welcome DMs to new BlueSky followers, significantly saving manual operation time while ensuring every new follower receives a timely and warm greeting along with guidance information, helping users build a positive social interaction environment.