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Also buried in the article is that likely most of his growth came from doing the follow/unfollow gimmick that people have been doing on Instagram for years. You
by BadassFractal 8y ago
Also buried in the article is that likely most of his growth came from doing the follow/unfollow gimmick that people have been doing on Instagram for years. You can pay online services to bot that for your account for $x a month.
It's frustrating on the receiving end, you think someone is following you because of genuine interest for what you have to share, but in reality it's a bot that's trying to scam you into following it back, only to unfollow you soon after. One of the worst aspects of the application, especially now that millions of accounts are all doing that at the same time. The signal to noise ratio is horrible.
- pnathan 8y agoYeah, that's super annoying. As someone with an insta, and as someone who kinda would like to be able to figure out how to get some visibility- surfacing my own content seems to be obscure.
- odnes 8y agoWhat is the value in unfollowing people? Do accounts that follow a lot of people have less authority?
- BadassFractal 8y agoYou have a limit of 7500 people you can follow. Thus if you're going to be spamming following people, you need to unfollow them as well to make room for more follows.
- dlgeek 8y agoFrom the article, under "Unfollowing": "You have to unfollow the people you follow for two reasons. The first is that you cannot be following over 7,500 people at any time. The second is because — although artificial — you want to have your follower/following ratio as high as possible as it is a sign of a more desirable account."