Amateur's Instagram Journey

Thanks everyone for the support! :-)

InstaEmpire said:
Just credit them in the caption and u'll be fine. FL may seem confusing at first but once u learn it you won't be wasting money monthly.

you also wont need a vps if you have 4 accounts or less.
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intruderj said:
Instagram's policy states : "Instagram does not claim ownership of any Content that you post on or through the Service. Instead, you hereby grant to Instagram a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use the Content that you post on or through the Service, subject to the Service's Privacy Policy"

Therefore, I don't think you'll be banned for ripping off pictures. I have a 16k account and I've been using posting pictures not owned by me from the beginning. To be on the safe side leave some credits in the bio.
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Ohhhh wow thanks for the info m8s!!! I already stated that not all photos belong to me in my bio tho. Plus even if i credit them the photo may not even belong to them right since they could have just ripped it off someone else too - does this matter? I'm looking into getting photos from tumblr instead dont know if this will be better

Did some research on insta bots and found out about megabots ingram edition too and it seems relatively decent, anyone has experience with this bot? How many accounts can i run before needing proxies?

EDIT: Quick update! Got about 1.1k followers now, havent increased much as i've been focusing on unfollowing. Following has dropped to about 2k, will continue to unfollow people to around 300/400 before i start following again!
 
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Good luck on your journey mate :) Looks like a decent journey thread, I will be following this thread to get an insight on how you grow IG followers and how much can you earn from 10k followers. Keep us updated, and good luck once again ;)
 
Quick update:
Followers: 1200
Following: 1700

Haven't done much lately, just waiting for instagress to finish unfollowing!
I've been posting pictures I've ripped from tumblr lately because i find them to be of higher quality and they really make my profile look more attractive to follow. Don't know if this will get me in trouble tho.

I've also been collecting a list of other accounts with a good followers:like ratio so I can load them into instagress and start following their followers after i'm done unfollowing.

Also I've been reading many reviews about instagram coming down hard on FL and banning accounts so yeah ill do more research before i actually take the leap and purchase it!

xxsaumitraxx said:
Good luck on your journey mate :) Looks like a decent journey thread, I will be following this thread to get an insight on how you grow IG followers and how much can you earn from 10k followers. Keep us updated, and good luck once again ;)
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Thank you! :)
 
Quick update:

Gained about 300 followers today, bringing my total to 1.5k
 
Quick update:

Total followers now stands at 1.7k, averaging about 150 likes per post!

EDIT:
Been trying to find other accounts within my range to do a shoutout for shoutout with but its hard as hell so far. Any tips?
 
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Update:
At around 3k followers now with about 230 likes per photo. Havent been doing much, just unfollowing at the moment.
Just bought a shoutout from a 600k account, will update how it goes.
 
hexathane said:
Update:
At around 3k followers now with about 230 likes per photo. Havent been doing much, just unfollowing at the moment.
Just bought a shoutout from a 600k account, will update how it goes.
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What is the engagement on the 600k account and how much did you pay?
 
prinse said:
What is the engagement on the 600k account and how much did you pay?
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Around 6-7k likes. Paid $40. He chose the photo and caption.

24 hours has gone by already and the post was removed. Overall only gained about 30 followers tho (wtf)
Highly suspect some shady business going on, think i'd want to get a refund. What's the best way to do this?
 
hexathane said:
Around 6-7k likes. Paid $40. He chose the photo and caption.

24 hours has gone by already and the post was removed. Overall only gained about 30 followers tho (wtf)
Highly suspect some shady business going on, think i'd want to get a refund. What's the best way to do this?
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His engagement was only 1% on a 600k account, which is very low. That means most of his followers are fake, which happens often with big accounts selling shoutouts nowadays. There are too many scammers with big accounts, so be careful. His likes might have even been fake, you never know. Maybe you can post his account here so others don't get scammed as well.

As for getting a refund, I highly doubt he'll refund you, so your best bet is to open a chargeback on PayPal. I think you should be able to get your money back, because PayPal is usually on the side of the buyer, especially if there's no physical products involved.
 
JustChillin said:
His engagement was only 1% on a 600k account, which is very low. That means most of his followers are fake, which happens often with big accounts selling shoutouts nowadays. There are too many scammers with big accounts, so be careful. His likes might have even been fake, you never know. Maybe you can post his account here so others don't get scammed as well.

As for getting a refund, I highly doubt he'll refund you, so your best bet is to open a chargeback on PayPal. I think you should be able to get your money back, because PayPal is usually on the side of the buyer, especially if there's no physical products involved.
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Thanks for the tip mate, negotiating with him for a refund, will see how it goes. Don't think I should post his account here tho.

Small update:
Just hit 5k followers. Starting 3 new accounts tomorrow in different niches. Any suggestions? :)
 
prinse said:
Any updates op ?
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At 6k followers atm, just focusing on unfollowing, nothing much.

On a side note, the number of likes ive been getting hasnt been increasing as much as my followers. This caused my like rate to go down, sigh.
 
hexathane said:
At 6k followers atm, just focusing on unfollowing, nothing much.

On a side note, the number of likes ive been getting hasnt been increasing as much as my followers. This caused my like rate to go down, sigh.
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No biggy, this is normal.
 
Update

Decided to go ahead and create 3 more accounts since i have 3 unused phone numbers lying around.
Also went ahead and purchased followliker and some proxies since my instagress subscription runned out. Have been running all 4 accounts on fl for a few days now and i really like fl, glad i got it.

Anyway, here are my stats (followers)

Account 1 - 7581
Account 2 - 389
Account 3 - 484
Account 4 - 449
 
Update:

Account 1 - 9173
Account 2 - 1528
Account 3 - 1621
Account 4 - 1284
 
Update after 5 days

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[TD]Account[/TD]
[TD]Followers[/TD]
[TD]Change[/TD]
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[TD]11004[/TD]
[TD]+1831[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]3202[/TD]
[TD]+1674[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]2763[/TD]
[TD]+1142[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]4[/TD]
[TD]2300[/TD]
[TD]+1016[/TD]
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hexathane said:
Update after 5 days

[TABLE="class: grid, width: 500, align: center"]
[TR]
[TD]Account[/TD]
[TD]Followers[/TD]
[TD]Change[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]11004[/TD]
[TD]+1831[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]3202[/TD]
[TD]+1674[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]2763[/TD]
[TD]+1142[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]4[/TD]
[TD]2300[/TD]
[TD]+1016[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

​
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Good growth on the first account!
 
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