A post that appears in your channel three seconds after the source tells the reader one thing: a program runs this channel. No human is that fast.
Who notices
- Subscribers of both channels. They see the same text twice, seconds apart.
- The author of the source, if they find you. An instant copy looks brazen even where the copying itself would not bother them.
- Telegram. An account publishing to the second, in step with someone else's schedule, behaves unusually.
How long a pause
A few minutes is enough for the coincidence to stop being obvious. More than an hour is a different problem: in news-driven topics a post ages, and a late clone looks inattentive.
More useful than a fixed pause is a spread: not «always ten minutes» but «five to twenty». A perfectly even interval is as recognisable as no interval at all.
What the pause buys besides cover
Time for filters, and time for the source to fix itself. Authors often edit a post in the first minutes — a typo, an added line. A copy taken instantly carries the first version, mistakes included.
At night
A post published at four in the morning collects a fraction of the usual reach and wakes anyone with notifications on. If the source publishes at night, holding until morning makes sense — the channel is yours, not theirs.
The same logic in outreach — quiet hours.
How Neurogram does this
Everything above is manual work that runs into the number of hours in a day. Neurogram does it on your own accounts and without you: it collects channels and audiences, writes comments and replies with a language model, and keeps limits and quiet hours so the accounts survive. See pricing or look at your case.