Ask Me Anything: Instagram's Asshole

[DarkInvoker]

What else can I do to give me an edge, aside from investing time and effort into content?

Things like powerlikes, auto comments etc. I see so many accounts with average content growing relatively fast posting 5+ videos all day...but there must be more to it.

We are about to host our second giveaway and utilize affiliates and influencers.

 

[2xdswu]

That is some next level scraping shit. Wow. I don't have the patience for it, but that is some deep layers.
And then interval stalking them with a follow and likes two days later?!
I've been botting for 3+ years and I might fall for that as a real interaction. haha.

I might do a scrape/filter service in future, I don't know. But it's really bad now since IG recently updated their PRIVATE API which limits the filtering by a hell lot!

Haha yeah, my follow back ratio is minimum 25%.

Which is the best paid and free tools today ? if i want to start Instagram account handling service.

Paid, use anything that gets things done for you.

My "BEST" and your definition of "BEST" is very different I'm sure.

I recommend you using those mainstream apps and move on to more closed invited apps later on. Start of with FL, you never know if social media is not the thing for you.

Thanks for the reply.
What kind of filters are we talking about?

Read back my posts.

I've read it all, great stuff.

My background

I'm have my 5 years old personal photography account which has great contents, and my goal is to become instagramfamous so that I can get more job opportunities and etc.

Questions:

1. How exactly does powerlike work and why is it limited to non-botted accounts?
2. Is it possible for my photos to go viral (again my photos are good) and get more organic exposure? Since I want to quit botting at some point. (I'm currently botting and I've heard botted accounts are not likely to go viral which is my biggest concern)
3. Getting featured on big photography accounts will get great exposure, any tips on how to let them see my posts? (I'm already # and @ them, and I don't think they are doing paid shoutouts since I've emailed them an got noreply)
4. I'm running FL on my computer and sometimes I need to reply to some DMs and comments and like some of my friends posts while I'm outside, does it raise any flags since my account is active at the same time at different places?
5. What would you do to grow the account faster? I'm currently F/FL around 600/day and liking 700/day, and I'm getting around 50 followers/day which I think is a bit low.
6. Anything you would do if you have great photography skill.

Thanks man!

1. Because botted account will somehow even tho how safe you do, have a hidden shadow ban in which powerlikes can push it to explore pages. It's a trade-off of downside when you're botting.
2. It is possible but it is also very unlikely it'll tbh..... Unless your account is not shadow-ban.
3. Why not DM them, tend to work better from what I heard from others.
4. IMO, no. I can't really go into details but it's really hard to explain because it'll be at least 2 pages lol.
5. Double the likes and decrease F/UF. Like for example, 450 likes and 900 likes a day. Meaning 2 most recent post scraped and liked from each users.
6. Nothing, because having great skill means nothing if you can't market yourself.

What are your thoughts on follow users who liked a certain media and follow users who commented on media?
Great thread so far, thumbs up!

1. Good method.

Downsides

2. You run out of data pretty quick.

IMO, to much work to make it automated.

What else can I do to give me an edge, aside from investing time and effort into content?

Things like powerlikes, auto comments etc. I see so many accounts with average content growing relatively fast posting 5+ videos all day...but there must be more to it.

We are about to host our second giveaway and utilize affiliates and influencers.

Some people do instagram ads too on reaaaally old photos which has the best engagement.

I don't know what your questions really so i can't reply much to it.

 

[Ktc201]

What is the best niche to target on instagram to earn money with cpa?

 

[2xdswu]

What is the best niche to target on instagram to earn money with cpa?

Read backwards, you lazy bum.

 

[Atrax]

Thank you very much @2xdswu I'll give that a try!

 

[Maverick1111]

all right, i am new to this but i am starting next week and i will start with followliker, lets see how its goes.

 

[Dou8le]

1. Because botted account will somehow even tho how safe you do, have a hidden shadow ban in which powerlikes can push it to explore pages. It's a trade-off of downside when you're botting.
2. It is possible but it is also very unlikely it'll tbh..... Unless your account is not shadow-ban.
3. Why not DM them, tend to work better from what I heard from others.
4. IMO, no. I can't really go into details but it's really hard to explain because it'll be at least 2 pages lol.
5. Double the likes and decrease F/UF. Like for example, 450 likes and 900 likes a day. Meaning 2 most recent post scraped and liked from each users.
6. Nothing, because having great skill means nothing if you can't market yourself.

Hey man thanks for replying!

I have some follow up questions:

1. Some of my posts will still appear in top9 of some smaller hashtags, does it mean my account is not shadow-banned?
2. My average likes and reaches for each posts are around 1k likes and 2k-3k reach 3k-4k impressions, and I currently have 4k followers. I know the engagement looks ok but is the reach and impression a bit low? I'm only running one account and I have nowhere to compare it.
3. Can you explain "double the likes and decrease F/FL" a bit more? Does it mean that liking is somehow more efficient than F/UF in my case?

Thank you very much man!

 

[DeLaGarde]

Thanks yet again dude for your secret sauce filtering method, your FLC-like technique and continued contributions here. Red walls of text are welcome!

Gonna try to up my filtering game based on what you have said, very interested to see what followback ratio I can achieve. Your followback ratio of 25-35% is impressive. I'm getting better at targeting as I get more experience and now have a new client account hitting above 40% (I am just as surprised as you are!), but on most accounts I am achieving around 10%.

Just purchased your friend Imristo/JutChillin's Instagram Scraper, hoping I can use it to achieve better results than with the inbuilt FL scraper.

I'm not 100% clear on how to set up FL to achieve what you have described, trying to figure it out.

So i just import users to likes and scraped users at the same time and try to do as close as possible, but I like the profile starting the follow first and the likes catching up so that people that receive will receive follow then the likes after 1-2 days which most likely they've posted. ​

I will load up the scraped user-list into the "Scraped Users" section on the data page, and also load it up in the Scrape Photo/Video page with the Query "User's Photo" and hope that FL only engages with 1 picture per user (how do I control that? Scrape Photo limit set to 1 and like limit also 1?). I also want to blacklist the user after liking their pictures so I don't keep liking the same users pics over and over... I hope it will become clear to me as I experiment setting it all up.

Instagram botting is a large subject. Reading this thread I am learning tons of new things that lead to new questions.. about Powerlikes (how long before to stop botting before deploying the Powerlikes?), Shadowbans and much more. I curious how long you can keep this up lol.

BTW I am subscribed to this thread.

 

[iSmexy]

Is your management service all about growing their follower count or do they require you to post ?
If so do you just create the posts yourself or do they give tell you what to post or what to post about ?
Sorry if the question was repeated.

 

[dblane4]

Question: As we all mainly target US followers so my question is if i open an instagram account with an US private proxy and verify email but without verifying phone number and start growing followers, liking other posts, comments etc. if Instagram asks for mobile verification one day, is it okay to verify that account with any non US mobile numbers like Russian numbers? Will Instagram block my account if I do so?

 

[2xdswu]

Thank you very much @2xdswu I'll give that a try!

Good luck!

all right, i am new to this but i am starting next week and i will start with followliker, lets see how its goes.

Be patient and test things out ALOT.

Hey man thanks for replying!

I have some follow up questions:

1. Some of my posts will still appear in top9 of some smaller hashtags, does it mean my account is not shadow-banned?
2. My average likes and reaches for each posts are around 1k likes and 2k-3k reach 3k-4k impressions, and I currently have 4k followers. I know the engagement looks ok but is the reach and impression a bit low? I'm only running one account and I have nowhere to compare it.
3. Can you explain "double the likes and decrease F/FL" a bit more? Does it mean that liking is somehow more efficient than F/UF in my case?

Thank you very much man!

1. Depends, are other people able to see you in the #hashtags ?
2. What's your engagement like ? Impressions are like outreaach, meaning 4k people out of your 4k followers who've seen your content shows that outside of all your followers there are lots of people who actually saw your content besides your followers because you can't get 4K of your follower to see your content lol.
3. No, it just increases the chance of follow back. Meaning you follow a user one and like 2 of his recent content instead of follow once and liking once.

Thanks yet again dude for your secret sauce filtering method, your FLC-like technique and continued contributions here. Red walls of text are welcome!

Gonna try to up my filtering game based on what you have said, very interested to see what followback ratio I can achieve. Your followback ratio of 25-35% is impressive. I'm getting better at targeting as I get more experience and now have a new client account hitting above 40% (I am just as surprised as you are!), but on most accounts I am achieving around 10%.

Just purchased your friend Imristo/JutChillin's Instagram Scraper, hoping I can use it to achieve better results than with the inbuilt FL scraper.

I'm not 100% clear on how to set up FL to achieve what you have described, trying to figure it out.

So i just import users to likes and scraped users at the same time and try to do as close as possible, but I like the profile starting the follow first and the likes catching up so that people that receive will receive follow then the likes after 1-2 days which most likely they've posted. ​

I will load up the scraped user-list into the "Scraped Users" section on the data page, and also load it up in the Scrape Photo/Video page with the Query "User's Photo" and hope that FL only engages with 1 picture per user (how do I control that? Scrape Photo limit set to 1 and like limit also 1?). I also want to blacklist the user after liking their pictures so I don't keep liking the same users pics over and over... I hope it will become clear to me as I experiment setting it all up.

Instagram botting is a large subject. Reading this thread I am learning tons of new things that lead to new questions.. about Powerlikes (how long before to stop botting before deploying the Powerlikes?), Shadowbans and much more. I curious how long you can keep this up lol.

BTW I am subscribed to this thread.

1. I'm able to do 50% for niche based account so 40% isn't very surprising to me, but however if you're able to do 40% on a business account then something must be really wrong tbh. My reasoning for it would be that the followbacks for 40% for the business account is very vague and not targeted.
2. I like Imristo, his a good friend of mine.
3. Meaning you import users and follow first, then you import users to like after 1-2 days and it'll catching in the list because it goes down the list orderly.

It doesn't like the same users pics over and over again, it'll go through the list then when there's no data left it'll go repeat the least.

I would say 2weeks to 1 month and you should be checking if you're still shadow ban before doing powerlikes.

Thank you for subscribing!

Is your management service all about growing their follower count or do they require you to post ?
If so do you just create the posts yourself or do they give tell you what to post or what to post about ?
Sorry if the question was repeated.

Repeated. Read back sorry.

Question: As we all mainly target US followers so my question is if i open an instagram account with an US private proxy and verify email but without verifying phone number and start growing followers, liking other posts, comments etc. if Instagram asks for mobile verification one day, is it okay to verify that account with any non US mobile numbers like Russian numbers? Will Instagram block my account if I do so?

Nope, as long as your number can do verifications you should be all good.

 

[King_zyzz]

Nice topic, very philanthropist.

Some background:
I have been active using FL with some success for several accounts. Mainly for some associates and close friends who wanna increase their social media presence. The recent update, is giving me some concerns.
I was wondering what your thoughts are on the following:

1. In the last couple of days, I have seen an decrease of the engagement (40% drop) likes on the posted pictures on most of the accounts (haven't checked them all). Most of the engagement was coming from the current following, or photos which were commented/users followed by FL. The hashtags seem to work with no active shadowban, at least not that I can tell. Also the shadowban tool found on google isn't showing any ban on the accounts.

I am wondering if IG changed the way your post appear on other people's explore list, implemented a new kind of shadowban, or this is just caused because most of the automated like bots are not active at the moment.

2. According to the shadowban checker, my account hasn't been banned. I want to switch to powerlikes, when searching for a good provider what are the things to look out for. I am in the fitness niche, personal account.

3. Business Account vs Personal accounts, For my own account I am thinking of switching to a business account to allow analytics and track reach. I read online that switching will have some downsides as well. What's your take on this and is there any other way to track your reach of posts etc if not switching to a business account.

4. I also recently encountered the following error in FL: Profile loading Error [username] did you ever encounter this error and how can it be prevented. All the functions were working fine, this happens only when liking photo's automated, app was working fine.

Appreciate your time and best of luck to you.

 

[DeLaGarde]

I never expected to say this, but after your latest reply I don't have any more questions

I now know everything! Considering branding myself "Instagrams Know It All™"

Will likely be back soon confused about something or other...

 

[YoLoSwaGMaAN]

I am struggling with using FL to follow a user and like two of it's recent pics, it never does that. how do you get it to work?

 

[Saly Verona]

Yeap, lots of experience. I used to sell handphone cover from taobao, 3-5$ each and sold at 60-80$.

Didn't want to do anymore as it couldn't be automated. Got bored of it really quick because it's just doing the same thing over and over again.

Thanks for reply ) I have some additional questions:

1) What do u suggest to start from ? Create some shopify store or create my now (i can do both)
2) How do you promote your goods ?
- u create new account where u promote some drop shipping stuff ?
or
- u have some accounts with big number of followers and u put the link in its bio. And from time to time u post some pics with caption "u can buy this product in our store - check link in bio "

Thanks

 

[getOofed69]

Is there any way to claim an inactive Instagram username without copyright or buying off the owner?

 

[Adam Bukowski]

Where exactly you want from customers to put their password to account? When they make a payment? Or they send you later via email?

 

[dblane4]

1. How to get rid of bots on my Instagram posts? When I post something I always get likes and comments from other competitors within the same niche. How can I post something without inviting the bots.
2. Is it ok to use 9-12 Hashtags and if I don't want to use any Hashtags how much engagement should I expect in a brand new account?

 

[2xdswu]

Nice topic, very philanthropist.

Some background:
I have been active using FL with some success for several accounts. Mainly for some associates and close friends who wanna increase their social media presence. The recent update, is giving me some concerns.
I was wondering what your thoughts are on the following:

1. In the last couple of days, I have seen an decrease of the engagement (40% drop) likes on the posted pictures on most of the accounts (haven't checked them all). Most of the engagement was coming from the current following, or photos which were commented/users followed by FL. The hashtags seem to work with no active shadowban, at least not that I can tell. Also the shadowban tool found on google isn't showing any ban on the accounts.

I am wondering if IG changed the way your post appear on other people's explore list, implemented a new kind of shadowban, or this is just caused because most of the automated like bots are not active at the moment.

2. According to the shadowban checker, my account hasn't been banned. I want to switch to powerlikes, when searching for a good provider what are the things to look out for. I am in the fitness niche, personal account.

3. Business Account vs Personal accounts, For my own account I am thinking of switching to a business account to allow analytics and track reach. I read online that switching will have some downsides as well. What's your take on this and is there any other way to track your reach of posts etc if not switching to a business account.

4. I also recently encountered the following error in FL: Profile loading Error [username] did you ever encounter this error and how can it be prevented. All the functions were working fine, this happens only when liking photo's automated, app was working fine.

Appreciate your time and best of luck to you.

1. Are you sure it's not shadowbanned, and how are you checking it it other thank #hashtags.
There's no new kind of shadowban from what I know.

2. Please do let me know if there aaare other powerlikes, I would like to compare their service with mine for myself to improve.

3. Sure, switch it to business. However if it's a niche page, why bother. I've heard of some downsides too, and have yet to try it out. But I would not recommend unless you wanna take the risk.

4. I'm pretty sure that the filtering/scraping has been changed and their private API limits bots/PC on how many people it can filter now. I know it sucks but we've to do with whatever we can.

I never expected to say this, but after your latest reply I don't have any more questions

I now know everything! Considering branding myself "Instagrams Know It All™"

Will likely be back soon confused about something or other...

HAHAHAHA

You're welcome.

I am struggling with using FL to follow a user and like two of it's recent pics, it never does that. how do you get it to work?

On this settings follow, like, scraped users.

Then import username list or set it to FLC.

"Scraped Content/Top Content" set it to 2. <- I can't remember what is it called.

There you have it.

Thanks for reply ) I have some additional questions:

1) What do u suggest to start from ? Create some shopify store or create my now (i can do both)
2) How do you promote your goods ?
- u create new account where u promote some drop shipping stuff ?
or
- u have some accounts with big number of followers and u put the link in its bio. And from time to time u post some pics with caption "u can buy this product in our store - check link in bio "

Thanks

Or... if you've money and knowledge of ad optimization.

Setup a shopy/Create your own shop and pump instagram ads into it and see high conversion rates.

Is there any way to claim an inactive Instagram username without copyright or buying off the owner?

Yes and NO.

Yes is through profile phishing and using those informaation to recover a username.

NO as in no for dumbass people like me that don't know how to act as another person.

Where exactly you want from customers to put their password to account? When they make a payment? Or they send you later via email?

My website is prettyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy awesome.

I made it in a way which when they're checking out they're able to set their filtering options themself and along with other information for scraping/filtering and also their instagram account logins sent to all in one form to my email.

Pretty sweet to be honest. I'm just lazy to continue, if anyone wanna JV I'm all for it but you cannot be a dumbass.

1. How to get rid of bots on my Instagram posts? When I post something I always get likes and comments from other competitors within the same niche. How can I post something without inviting the bots.
2. Is it ok to use 9-12 Hashtags and if I don't want to use any Hashtags how much engagement should I expect in a brand new account?

1. Post or account ?
2. By blocking them, you cannot stop them entirely just by deleting comments.
3. I recommend you should be having 30 #hashtags and using 5 at a time and rotating each other to use.

 

[King_zyzz]

1. Are you sure it's not shadowbanned, and how are you checking it it other thank #hashtags.
There's no new kind of shadowban from what I know.

2. Please do let me know if there aaare other powerlikes, I would like to compare their service with mine for myself to improve.

3. Sure, switch it to business. However if it's a niche page, why bother. I've heard of some downsides too, and have yet to try it out. But I would not recommend unless you wanna take the risk.

4. I'm pretty sure that the filtering/scraping has been changed and their private API limits bots/PC on how many people it can filter now. I know it sucks but we've to do with whatever we can.


1. I used the shadowban checker googled it, and hashtags showing up I think. Is there any other way to find out?
2. I have only seen some people selling them from Telegram selling groups, and fuel gram.
3. Switched yesterday engagement dropped further, gone make a post today to see if it's related to the switch.
4. What is the effect of this change?