# TikTok community guidelines on multiple accounts > TikTok's guidelines allow more than one account. They rule out accounts that deceive, inflate engagement or return after a ban, and that decides a brand's case. Source: https://mosaicbrowser.com/blog/tiktok-guidelines-multiple-accounts ## What TikTok's guidelines say about running several accounts TikTok's guidelines allow more than one account. They rule out accounts that deceive, inflate engagement or return after a ban, and that decides a brand's case. ![A second account is allowed. A second chance is not.](https://mosaicbrowser.com/covers/tiktok-guidelines-multiple-accounts.webp) TikTok's Community Guidelines allow more than one account per person. The line they draw is about behaviour, not numbers: accounts that deceive people, accounts that inflate each other's engagement, and accounts made to get around a restriction or a ban. A brand's second account sits on the right side of that line when it says whose it is and does its own work. TikTok's rules decide what you may run (the [Community Guidelines](https://www.tiktok.com/community-guidelines/en/integrity-authenticity), section Integrity and Authenticity). Mosaic keeps accounts you are entitled to run apart; it does not change what TikTok allows. ## Where the TikTok Community Guidelines cover multiple accounts The passage sits under Integrity and Authenticity, in the part on deceptive behaviours and fake engagement. It says a person can have multiple accounts and gives two examples, fan content and creative expression. In the same paragraph it says the accounts must not be used to deceive others or to break the rules. Around that sentence TikTok lists what it treats as deceptive: covert influence operations, impersonation, spam, fake reviews, and buying or selling services that inflate engagement or trick the recommendation system. If it finds deceptive account behaviour, the listed responses go past the one account. TikTok can ban the account, ban additional or new accounts the person creates, or restrict the account so it posts less, ranks lower in search or drops out of the For You feed. Two more lines matter to anyone running several accounts. A restricted or banned person may not create or use another account to get around it. And TikTok prohibits automation tools, scripts and other tricks designed to get past its systems. Mosaic is a desktop app Email yourself the link and open it on your computer. How it works: Logins and 2FA codes ## Allowed and not allowed, side by side The guidelines never give a number. They describe what the accounts do. Reading the section through, these are the cases a business actually meets: | Situation | Where it lands | | --- | --- | | A brand's main account and a separate account for one country or language | Allowed, if both say whose they are | | A support or careers account next to the main one | Allowed | | An agency running each client's own account | Allowed; the account belongs to the client | | A "fan" account run by the brand to praise the brand | Deceptive: it hides who runs it | | Extra accounts that like, follow or comment on the main one | Fake engagement | | A new account opened while the old one is restricted or banned | Not allowed while the restriction stands | | Posting or engaging through a script built to get past TikTok's checks | Prohibited automation | The second account itself is never the problem. What decides the case is whether it tells the truth about who runs it, and whether it exists for its own audience or to push numbers on another account. ## Why "associated accounts" is the part to take seriously TikTok does not publish how it decides two accounts belong to one person, and we will not guess at its signals. What the guidelines do say is that enforcement can follow a person to their other accounts. A brand that runs five accounts honestly and one dishonestly is risking all six. For agencies the practical problem is less dramatic and more common. When one person signs in to every client's TikTok from one browser, a client's session, cookies and saved login all sit next to every other client's. Then a handover, an offboarding or a password reset touches more than it should. Keeping each client's account in its own place is ordinary hygiene. It is not a way around enforcement, and nothing about it would help an account that broke the rules. ## How brands and agencies usually set it up The tools TikTok gives you come first. The app's own account switcher handles a person with a personal account and a work one. For ads, TikTok Business Center holds ad accounts and the people allowed to use them. Its limits are different from the Community Guidelines and have nothing to do with how many profiles you own, which we went through in [the TikTok Business Center ad account limit](https://mosaicbrowser.com/blog/tiktok-business-center-ad-account-limit). Where an agency signs in to many clients' accounts from one computer, a separate browser per client keeps the logins apart. In Mosaic each client gets a profile: its own cookies, its own fingerprint and its own proxy exit, with that client's two-factor codes in the companion inside the profile. How social teams lay that out, one project per client, is on [social media teams](https://mosaicbrowser.com/use-cases/social-media-teams). Taking the profile away cleanly when a client leaves is covered in [offboarding a client's browser profiles](https://mosaicbrowser.com/blog/client-offboarding-browser-profiles). What Mosaic should not be used for on TikTok is just as plain. Do not use it to come back after a ban, run accounts that pose as independent fans, or point its REST API or MCP at posting and engagement. Each of those is named in the guidelines, and a separate browser changes none of them. The general mechanics of why accounts end up linked, cookies, fingerprint, address and behaviour, are laid out in [how to manage multiple accounts without getting linked](https://mosaicbrowser.com/guides/how-to-manage-multiple-accounts-without-getting-linked). ## Questions ### Does TikTok allow multiple accounts? Yes. TikTok's Community Guidelines say a person can have more than one account, and give fan content and creative expression as examples. What they rule out is using the extra accounts to deceive people or to break the rules. ### Can I make a new TikTok account after a ban? Not while the ban or restriction stands. The guidelines say you may not create or use another account to get around a restriction or ban, and TikTok can ban the new accounts too. ### Can a brand run a main account and a regional or support account? Yes, as long as each one says whose it is and none of them is used to boost the others. A second brand account becomes a problem when it pretends to be an independent fan, or when it exists to like, follow or comment on the first. ### Can I automate posting or engagement on TikTok with a script? The guidelines prohibit automation tools, scripts and other tricks designed to get around TikTok's systems. We would not point a script at TikTok engagement, and Mosaic's API is not for that. ## Related [How TikTok decides your Business Center ad account limit](https://mosaicbrowser.com/blog/tiktok-business-center-ad-account-limit): TikTok's Business Center ad account limit is a default set per Business Center type, raised through TikTok. Spend moves a different limit: ad groups. [Mosaic for social media managers running brand accounts](https://mosaicbrowser.com/use-cases/social-media-teams): Keep each brand's social logins, two-factor codes and notes in their own browser profile, on their own exit, and check posts as the brand's market sees them. [How to manage multiple accounts without getting them linked](https://mosaicbrowser.com/guides/how-to-manage-multiple-accounts-without-getting-linked): Accounts get linked by shared cookies, IPs, fingerprints and habits. Give each its own profile, exit and history, then test it before you trust it. [What to do with a client's browser profile when the contract ends](https://mosaicbrowser.com/blog/client-offboarding-browser-profiles): Agency client offboarding goes wrong when access is revoked before the client can sign in. Confirm the handover, export, then trash the profile by id.  [Switching between client accounts in seconds, not sign-ins](https://mosaicbrowser.com/blog/switching-between-client-accounts): Signing out and back in is where a client switch costs minutes and where wrong-account posts start. A shortcut per client profile makes it one double-click. [TikTok One for agencies: creator access without logins](https://mosaicbrowser.com/blog/tiktok-creator-marketplace-agencies): TikTok One, the old Creator Marketplace, lets an agency run a creator's post as a Spark Ad from its own ad account. The creator approves; no password. [Several YouTube channels and one AdSense account](https://mosaicbrowser.com/blog/youtube-channels-one-adsense): YouTube lets one creator run and monetise several channels, but AdSense allows one account per payee, so every monetised channel you own pays into the same one. ## Mosaic, on your own computer The browser this blog is about: its own Chromium, fingerprints from real machines and a proxy exit per profile. Free holds 3 profiles. Pro is $49 a month for any number. Mosaic is a desktop app Email yourself the link and open it on your computer.