Recent content by ferspec

If you're interested in trying out a safer alternative, I'd like to recommend ChompSocial (disclaimer: I'm the developer). We also have a free 3-day trial you can signup for to test out the waters.

If you're willing to try out ChompSocial, you'll be able to unfollow up to 1,440 profiles per day. And that's with using the official Instagram API's since you'll be authorized to perform up to 60 unfollows per hour. I'm the developer so if you have any questions feel free to reach out.

How consistent are those engagement numbers? And is the theme of your posts consistent day to day? From my experience, people are usually more likely to follow a certain profile when they see that profile as a consistent source of a specific content they're able to connect with.

Also make sure to not follow and unfollow people in the same day. Doing that will quickly raise some flags.

With that budget to spend per month, I'd also suggest a small prize giveaway (worth maybe ~$25). I've seen some users achieve a lot of success from holding a contest with the entry requirements being to follow and then comment and tag 3 other users.

Would also advise against deleting your account. You can always change the username if you decide to pivot the theme of the account. Having that many followers gives you a very big head start on growing the next audience base.

Humor itself is a very broad category. So even in a humor "niche", you're going to have to go even deeper and target a more specific subset of that. Ie. humor for college students vs humor for working professionals would ultimately result in a different set of content and audience base.

No problem, honestly I'm fairly new to the social media scene and don't know much about the other players other than Instagress. ChompSocial was originally an in-house dashboard I made for a friend's business and after some successful trial runs and feedback it then turned into a live service...

The ToS for Instagram's APIs specifically forbid automating and form of posting content, which ChompSocial doesn't provide. ChompSocial also doesn't provide automating comments, and most likely never will. This was a feature which received has been frequently requested by our users, however at...

There is no fast or slow speed with ChompSocial. Since the app utilizes Instagram's APIs, users can follow/unfollow up to a total of 1,440 profiles, which is in accordance to Instagram's limit of 60 actions per hour.

Another way you could approach it would be to have a "throwback" theme with a refreshed caption. Basically share a previous post, but also acknowledging that it's been posted before.

They'll be able to post those 28 tags in the next comment, but chances are that they won't actually be attached to the post itself.

I'm the developer for ChompSocial and I've noticed similar trends with some of our users. The problem arises when you're following stale accounts or relatively niche hashtags. The recommendation is to utilize a variety of active accounts and hashtags so that you'll have a constant stream of new...

Developer for one of those "annoying subscription sites" here :P I would say it's definitely very possible to create your own analytics app for Instagram. Regarding your question about their APIs, I'd recommend you begin the application process as early as possible so that you're not stuck...

You can check out ChompSocial, which has authorized API access to Instagram so you wouldn't have to worry about whether or not it breaks any of their terms. Downside is you wouldn't necessarily get to run as many actions as you would on Instagress. Disclaimer: I'm the developer for ChompSocial