Recent content by inflalgoresearch

Gotcha. But, so, they do occasionally un-flag accounts after receiving messages? Interesting.

Curious: what did you say to IG in your letter and did they reply?

I'm a researcher/PhD student working on a study about influencers and algorithms on Instagram. I recently joined BHW to learn more from this community and in the hopes that I might find individuals to interview as part of my study. I am paying interviewees $50 for interviews that last ~1 hour. I...

Agree with these points. So much of the IG economy is held up by botting (as well as other non-organic tactics for growing accounts). It's a legit conundrum for Facebook: crack down more heavily on bots and risk significant decreases in platform engagement/activity OR turn a blind eye (to a...

Search Facebook for engagement groups and/or groups related to IG growth. There are ads all the time in these groups for pods/engagement groups to join and/or people seeking groups (who you can connect with). Some of the FB groups are devoted to engagement threads only.

More questions: Does anyone have a screenshot of analytics before/after a shadowban to share as an example? So, your organic reach/engagement drops during a shadowban, but you still get some engagement, which suggests you're reaching certain users (but not others). Which users are you still...

Do you think organic reach is "penalized" as a result of certain actions (e.g. posting too many comments in too short a period of time)?

True. Why do you think they don't want to fess up to it?

So maybe "hide" is the operative word here? As in, "we don't hide posts, but..."?

Short and to the point. I like it.

Just curious to know what everyone thinks--read an article from TechCrunch reporting on a meeting with Facebook, in which Facebook reps claimed (according to the article) "Shadowbanning is not a real thing, and Instagram says it doesn’t hide people’s content for posting too many hashtags or...

That's handy. Thanks for the heads up.

Private research. I'm a graduate student, currently.

Thanks! I think so too! :)

I used to be a librarian and got interested in how algorithms regulate visibility of information on social media after reading The Filter Bubble by Eli Pariser. Then, when I managed social media accounts myself, I started seeing all the behind the scenes "hacking" that goes into achieving...