How to check your LINE Official Account friend count and grow it: complete guide
SocialContactApp · Fu Xin Co., Ltd. · Updated 2025-05-29
A LINE Official Account’s friend count is the trust signal a business shows on LINE, and it directly determines how many people your broadcast messages reach. This guide shows how to check it, what it really means, and legitimate ways to grow it.
Where do I see the "friends" count of a LINE Official Account?
Log in to LINE Official Account Manager and the dashboard shows your friend count, split into three numbers:
- Friends (target reach): people who added you and have not blocked you — the people who actually receive your broadcasts.
- Blocked: people who added you and later blocked you.
- Total friends: the sum of the two above.
Many businesses treat "total friends" as their headline number, but what matters for marketing is the target reach — only those people receive your broadcast messages.
What the friend count really means for a business
The friend count of a LINE Official Account affects three things:
- Broadcast reach: broadcasts only reach your target friends, so more friends means more reach.
- Social proof: people trust accounts with many friends more and are more willing to add them.
- Plan cost: LINE charges by the number of messages, so your friend count affects which plan tier you need.
How to grow LINE Official Account friends (4 ways)
1. Natural growth: put your Official Account QR code in your shop, on business cards and in social posts, with an incentive such as "add us for a discount". The healthiest way, but the slowest.
2. LINE Ads (LAP): paid CPF (cost per friend) campaigns. Faster, but each friend costs more.
3. Partnerships / KOL referrals: get partners or influencers to recommend adding you.
4. Friend-adding services: a specialised provider grows the friend count, improving your headline number and social proof. SocialContactApp offers two modes — regular friends (service 20004) and blocked friends (service 20003); conditions and quantity limits follow the current service page.
Regular friends vs. blocked friends: what is the difference?
Friend-adding services usually come in two types:
- Regular friends (service 20004): they stay as friends and count toward your target reach, so in theory they receive broadcasts. More expensive, but they stay as normal friends.
- Blocked friends (service 20003): they join and then block, raising only the total friend count; they do not receive broadcasts. Cheaper, suited purely to a bigger headline number.
Our suggestion: if marketing reach matters to you, choose regular friends; if you only need a better-looking number, blocked friends cost less.
FAQ
Q: Can the friend count of a LINE Official Account be grown for me?
First look at our LINE Official Account services and compare regular users (20004) and blocked users (20003). Orderable quantities and conditions follow the current service page.
Q: Will LINE remove the added friends?
Whether friends are removed depends on platform rules and account status, and we cannot guarantee that the platform will not remove them. Contact support with your order number if anything is unclear. If the Official Account itself is taken down by LINE for breaking its rules, its friends are affected too.
Q: Will LINE penalise me for growing the friend count?
How an account is treated is up to LINE’s rules, and we cannot guarantee the platform’s decisions. We recommend adding friends in batches rather than all in one day, to keep a natural growth curve.
Q: How long does it take to add 1,000 friends?
It depends on the service type, the quantity and the target account settings. Track progress on the Orders page, and contact support with your order number if anything goes wrong.
Want to grow your LINE Official Account friends?
We offer LINE Official Account services with regular users and blocked users. Please check the conditions of the two modes first.
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