Recent FL (followliker) issues

[writergirl5500]

How many accounts are you running?

It's also important that you assign private proxies to your accounts. (if you're not)

I'm just running one account (I have three, but only was using FL on one of them and the other two are basically dormant.)

 

[shadow5]

Got it.

Well if you scale, keep that in mind. Some use 1-3 accounts per private proxy... but I use a unique proxy for each of my accounts just to be extra safe.

 

[writergirl5500]

Got it.

Well if you scale, keep that in mind. Some use 1-3 accounts per private proxy... but I use a unique proxy for each of my accounts just to be extra safe.

Thanks. I'm pretty small potatoes. Just trying to build a following for my page. I really appreciate all your advice.

 

[writergirl5500]

Got it.

Well if you scale, keep that in mind. Some use 1-3 accounts per private proxy... but I use a unique proxy for each of my accounts just to be extra safe.

A little update: I laid off FL for about 5 days. Just started again yesterday. I'm no longer getting errors, which is a good thing. But still not getting many followers. I hoping/suspecting it might take a few days to get back up to speed. FL support told me to redo my settings so everything's spaced apart more (now at 2-4 minutes vs 1-2 in general), no liking photos at all and follow/unfollow is around 100-200 which each set for a delay at around 120-240 seconds. Because the program started unfollowing, I suspect I received unfollows (I'm getting around 5-8 follows a day with those numbers so it's coming out my overall numbers remaining static.

Do you think it's a wash for me with FL or should I keep at this and slowly raise the numbers and add liking photos over the next week or two?

 

[shadow5]

A little update: I laid off FL for about 5 days. Just started again yesterday. I'm no longer getting errors, which is a good thing. But still not getting many followers. I hoping/suspecting it might take a few days to get back up to speed. FL support told me to redo my settings so everything's spaced apart more (now at 2-4 minutes vs 1-2 in general), no liking photos at all and follow/unfollow is around 100-200 which each set for a delay at around 120-240 seconds. Because the program started unfollowing, I suspect I received unfollows (I'm getting around 5-8 follows a day with those numbers so it's coming out my overall numbers remaining static.

Do you think it's a wash for me with FL or should I keep at this and slowly raise the numbers and add liking photos over the next week or two?

I would turn off the liking function all together. It really hasn't added much for my accounts and only causes errors for me.

I think your settings are okay but I'm attaching two images of the settings I would run for you.

Let me know if you have any questions.

 

[writergirl5500]

I would turn off the liking function all together. It really hasn't added much for my accounts and only causes errors for me.

I think your settings are okay but I'm attaching two images of the settings I would run for you.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you! Why should I have more unfollows than follows?

 

[shadow5]

I just do it to keep my accounts following down.

My idea: If someone see's I follow them, clicks to my profile and see's that I'm following over ~2000+ people... the likeliness they're going to follow back will be significantly lower.

As opposed to if they go to my profile and see I'm only following ~850 people.

It looks more natural and less spammy (they'll feel more special ).

 

[writergirl5500]

I just do it to keep my accounts following down.

My idea: If someone see's I follow them, clicks to my profile and see's that I'm following over ~2000+ people... the likeliness they're going to follow back will be significantly lower.

As opposed to if they go to my profile and see I'm only following ~850 people.

It looks more natural and less spammy (they'll feel more special ).

Good idea. I keep my follows at around 1050. With (currently) around 5755 following me. I like to keep the unfollow/follow ratio the same only because I thinking following/unfollowing will cause someone to unfollow me if I unfollow them. What I did initially (and might do again) is look at the Folllowers app--see who blocked me and unfollow them from there if I'm still following them. I do like the 850-ish number for how many I'm following, though.

 

[writergirl5500]

Good idea. I keep my follows at around 1050. With (currently) around 5755 following me. I like to keep the unfollow/follow ratio the same only because I thinking following/unfollowing will cause someone to unfollow me if I unfollow them. What I did initially (and might do again) is look at the Folllowers app--see who blocked me and unfollow them from there if I'm still following them. I do like the 850-ish number for how many I'm following, though.

SO I heard back from FL today and their solution (again) was to change the query to people who liked vs people who followed. I added a couple of extra queries with that.

Yesterday, I got 12 new followers total, which actually isn't that bad (normally I get around 25-30 new ones per day but I follow twice as many). Today, so far, not so much. I'm hoping that in a few days it all corrects itself.

 

[writergirl5500]

SO I heard back from FL today and their solution (again) was to change the query to people who liked vs people who followed. I added a couple of extra queries with that.

Yesterday, I got 12 new followers total, which actually isn't that bad (normally I get around 25-30 new ones per day but I follow twice as many). Today, so far, not so much. I'm hoping that in a few days it all corrects itself.

Meanwhile, just checked my activity log and it's stopped following/unfollowing users. All it's doing is "retrieving data for user [name of user]" What the hell?! I just wrote them. Apparently, that's all the app has been doing all day, like Jack Nicholson in The Shining (all work and no play make...)

Any ideas why this might be?

Thanks.