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Is there a free tool where i can remove ghost followers. My account is 7 years old
 
There are so many apps available for this on play store and app store.just search fake followers.
 
Blocking too many ghosts can decrease your engagement and also trigger continuously blocks for follow tools
 
Is there a free tool where i can remove ghost followers. My account is 7 years old

I don't know about free apps that can get rid of ghost followers slowly to avoid bans on your account. But there is a cheap one called Cleaner that is working quite good. For $5 you can remove as much ghost followers as you want. For android and ios. You can select inactives, ghosts or non profile photo followers. In both versions you can set how many actions you want it takes every hour. The IOS version is bit better cause you can even set the time between each action and you can add a random delay on it to make it looks even more natural.

Blocking too many ghosts can decrease your engagement and also trigger continuously blocks for follow tools

The engagement is not gonna decrease cause they are ghost followers which means they are already not engaging with the content. Removing them you get the same engagement in amount but the engagement rate in percentage is improving which is giving better score to the account. About the bans you can avoid them setting the maximum batch actions at 50 per hour or less to be safe.
 
I've never seen a ghost account following strategy that has increased follower growth. I've seen it increase engagement (since you have a lower follower base), but I have the gut feeling that it halts follower growth in its tracks. I've seen it happen to a few pages already.
 
The engagement is not gonna decrease cause they are ghost followers which means they are already not engaging with the content. Removing them you get the same engagement in amount but the engagement rate in percentage is improving which is giving better score to the account. About the bans you can avoid them setting the maximum batch actions at 50 per hour or less to be safe.

As @fxmanaged says it will lower the followers' growth and even if the engagement score will rise due to inactivity of ghosts, the blocks will the there, I've experienced it already, I knwo what I am talking about. I am recommending removing the ghosts very very slow. A couple of 10s per day, maybe.
 
As @fxmanaged says it will lower the followers' growth and even if the engagement score will rise due to inactivity of ghosts, the blocks will the there, I've experienced it already, I knwo what I am talking about. I am recommending removing the ghosts very very slow. A couple of 10s per day, maybe.

It's almost as if Instagram doesn't want you to reverse engineer your growth optimization. Gotta love Zucky boyz!
 
I'm also interested in removing ghost/fake followers. How can these apps determine which accounts are "ghost"? I'm curious what's the criteria they use to make sure they won't remove real people accounts who're just inactive from time to time.

Any insights?
 
Wait so is the consensus to remove or keep the followers?

And if to remove, slowly right? Maybe 10-90 a day spread out?
 
Can I ask why you would want to remove followers? Having a larger follower count not "following" provides what is called "social proof".
In my opinion I would keep any and all followers as long as they are not correlated to anything that is "not approved" by Instagram. If they are not liking or engaging on your content so be it just keep creating and new more engaged followers will come.
 
Can I ask why you would want to remove followers? Having a larger follower count not "following" provides what is called "social proof".
In my opinion I would keep any and all followers as long as they are not correlated to anything that is "not approved" by Instagram. If they are not liking or engaging on your content so be it just keep creating and new more engaged followers will come.

The only valid goal to remove "ghost" or fake followers in my opinion is to improve your follower growth. If higher engagement would always result in greater reach to non-followers, then it would also increase the number of followers actually gained. Unfortunately, from what I've seen, this is not the case. I have seen pages remove a large number of inactive/ghost/fake followers and increase both total engagement and obviously engagement rate. Unfortunately, this has not resulted in a corresponding increase of new followers. Quite the contrary, I've seen their new follower growth be completely flat or minuscule at best.
 
The only valid goal to remove "ghost" or fake followers in my opinion is to improve your follower growth. If higher engagement would always result in greater reach to non-followers, then it would also increase the number of followers actually gained. Unfortunately, from what I've seen, this is not the case. I have seen pages remove a large number of inactive/ghost/fake followers and increase both total engagement and obviously engagement rate. Unfortunately, this has not resulted in a corresponding increase of new followers. Quite the contrary, I've seen their new follower growth be completely flat or minuscule at best.

Every account and case is different however with that said removing followers generally will not have effect on much of anything other than hurting social proof , overall the goal is to not worry about current followers but to produce quality content and reach out for new growth.
 
There are many apps but everyone will ask you to login to you accounts ( Which is not safe at all ) So stay away form apps.
 
Every account and case is different however with that said removing followers generally will not have effect on much of anything other than hurting social proof , overall the goal is to not worry about current followers but to produce quality content and reach out for new growth.

I hear you, but that's not the case if someone injects a bunch of fake followers at once in your account. It'll screw up the account, regardless of the "social proof" benefit.
 
Hey,
There are a few options you can do to remove fake or ghost followers.

Manually removal
You can remove fake followers by yourself. All you need to is to click on the "Followers" tab in your profile. Check every single follower if it real or not. Click on remove or either block & unblock them. Don't do it too quick and don't remove too many followers in one session. Since Instagram new updates they're blocking people from doing actions if they see quick or too many actions.
Note: This method is not good to remove ghost followers.

Apps
There’re many apps that could help you to remove fake followers. From my experience they're inaccurate and missing sometime and could remove real followers. I won't really recommend for you to do it but it's an option.
Note: This method is not good to remove ghost followers.

Agency
There is an agency that I used to remove fake and ghost followers. They remove the followers manually one by one from your account. They can target fake and ghost followers and will remove them gradually. It worked well for me. The website is http://www.fakefollowersremoval.com
 
Hey,
There are a few options you can do to remove fake or ghost followers.

Manually removal
You can remove fake followers by yourself. All you need to is to click on the "Followers" tab in your profile. Check every single follower if it real or not. Click on remove or either block & unblock them. Don't do it too quick and don't remove too many followers in one session. Since Instagram new updates they're blocking people from doing actions if they see quick or too many actions.
Note: This method is not good to remove ghost followers.

Apps
There’re many apps that could help you to remove fake followers. From my experience they're inaccurate and missing sometime and could remove real followers. I won't really recommend for you to do it but it's an option.
Note: This method is not good to remove ghost followers.

Agency
There is an agency that I used to remove fake and ghost followers. They remove the followers manually one by one from your account. They can target fake and ghost followers and will remove them gradually. It worked well for me. The website is http://www.fakefollowersremoval.com

Nice sales pitch :) Also, why resurrect an old thread?
 
I recommend you take your time and remove them manually. With that you are avoiding many useless Instagram tools that promise many things but do nothing.
 
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