Telegram FloodWait, PeerFlood, SpamBlock: What Each Ban Message Means

Short answer: FloodWait means slow down for exactly N seconds; PeerFlood means your account looks like a spammer - stop for days; SpamBlock means reports piled up - appeal and sit out a week. Details and fixes below.

FloodWaitError: the polite one

You called a method too often. The error carries a seconds field - sleep exactly that long, then continue slower. Treat repeated FloodWaits as a configuration bug, not bad luck: add delays between calls, batch reads, stop hammering one method in a loop. Accounts die from ignored FloodWaits, not from single ones.

PeerFloodError: the serious one

Telegram classified the account itself as spammy. Sending stops working broadly, not just the hot method. Causes: fresh account plus volume, identical texts, mass joins. Fix: full stop for several days, then resume at a fraction of previous volume with varied texts. If it recurs within a week, the account is burned - replace it.

SpamBlock and "limit exceeded" notices

Someone reported you, or automated filters tripped. In-app appeal via SpamBot sometimes lifts it; often you wait it out (days, occasionally weeks). Prevention beats appeal: warmed accounts, human hours, personal first lines, hard daily quotas. Scaling without bans, in full: https://www.24go.site/blog/scale-telegram-lead-gen-without-bans?locale=en - VK has its own parallel rulebook: https://www.24go.site/blog/how-to-automate-vkontakte-lead-generation-without-bans?locale=en

Verify recovery properly

After any block, test with one manual message to a contact before resuming automation. Then run a day at 20% volume watching for warnings. Jumping back to full speed is how temporary blocks become permanent.

Honest limits

No trick rescues a burned account reliably - not proxies, not new SIMs on the same patterns, not "antiban" services. The pattern that got you banned will ban the next account too. Change behavior first, infrastructure second.

Also note: error texts change over time. When a new wording appears, assume the strictest interpretation until proven otherwise.

Which error taught you the most expensive lesson?