Hello BHW, I have been lurking for around 4 months and finally decide to join the community.
Here is my story. I started an account recently to experiment with organic growth manually. As a novice I started one week after account creation (regular posting in this week with relevant hashtags) with follow\unfollow with really huge number. around 50 F every hour for around 12 hours getting me around 900+ followers in a matter of 4 days. no problems at all. got one action block once but otherwise nothing. Then i started with the unfollow cycle using an app in Android and after that I got my account banned. I restored the account and after one like got banned again. restore it and stayed low for a day only to get banned again. last week i got my account back and started only posting with interacting with anyone and this last for 4 days. I reconnected my account with buffer and after posting through it I got the Captcha with 24 h review and passed that only to get the account banned after one day. To day I got my account back and I wonder your thoughts on best practice after restoring an account. I read somewhere its better to post so the Instagram thinks that you are not a bot and such , but I am not sure.
On side note, I have noticed since the beginning of my account that some feature was missing like the sharing post to story feature , in the same time my posts wont show on the hashtags but looking at the insights you see many reaches from the hashtags which is strange .
Thoughts?
Here is my story. I started an account recently to experiment with organic growth manually. As a novice I started one week after account creation (regular posting in this week with relevant hashtags) with follow\unfollow with really huge number. around 50 F every hour for around 12 hours getting me around 900+ followers in a matter of 4 days. no problems at all. got one action block once but otherwise nothing. Then i started with the unfollow cycle using an app in Android and after that I got my account banned. I restored the account and after one like got banned again. restore it and stayed low for a day only to get banned again. last week i got my account back and started only posting with interacting with anyone and this last for 4 days. I reconnected my account with buffer and after posting through it I got the Captcha with 24 h review and passed that only to get the account banned after one day. To day I got my account back and I wonder your thoughts on best practice after restoring an account. I read somewhere its better to post so the Instagram thinks that you are not a bot and such , but I am not sure.
On side note, I have noticed since the beginning of my account that some feature was missing like the sharing post to story feature , in the same time my posts wont show on the hashtags but looking at the insights you see many reaches from the hashtags which is strange .
Thoughts?