fake followers and engagment?

yahya778

yahya778

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have been reading other posts about followers is it even worth buying 10k followers on a 13k acc?
back story on this acc it has amazing engagement like everything I post hits explore but my engagement and my followers don't add up at all, I'm getting average of 20-70k views on all of my videos which is all I post and I only have 13k is it even worth adding on 10k likes to make it look better.
 
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No, because sooner or later you'll get flagged.

IG algo is getting more and more advanced, they are onto you.
 
VapeMonkey said:
No, because sooner or later you'll get flagged.

IG algo is getting more and more advanced, they are onto you.
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so just keep growing organic?
what happens when you get flagged?
 
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VapeMonkey said:
Your reach can/will be limited and get stuck.

Organic is all the way for long term. Just accept the ups and downs. :)
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thanks, just not growing as fast as I used to used to be getting 1k a day now getting like half of that .
 
VapeMonkey said:
Tell that to the botters lol. They would kill for 500 a day.
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lmfao haha stopped botting a long time ago after I read one of your posts stopped using my bot all together and it worked out very well for me.
 
I have one word for you OP: Mase.

http://www.complex.com/music/2014/12/mase-instagram-the-humbling

When Instagram did that sweep in 2014, all of his followers disappeared and he was the laughing stock. You don't want that to be you.

It's better to gain 1 legit follower a day, than 10k fake ones. People will know they are fake anyway. Because like you said, your views, engagement, and follow count will not add up.
 
I use bots only for beginning, after receiving 10k bots I usually try to get organic users
 
PetalumaFlower said:
I have one word for you OP: Mase.

http://www.complex.com/music/2014/12/mase-instagram-the-humbling

When Instagram did that sweep in 2014, all of his followers disappeared and he was the laughing stock. You don't want that to be you.

It's better to gain 1 legit follower a day, than 10k fake ones. People will know they are fake anyway. Because like you said, your views, engagement, and follow count will not add up.
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thanks for the advice, but that's not what I'm saying what I mean is that i have 13k on this account but am getting engagement as if I had around 50-60k followers so I just wanted to boost it up a bit.
 
PakaKepster said:
I use bots only for beginning, after receiving 10k bots I usually try to get organic users
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you buy 10k followers from the start?
won't that just kill your engagement?
 
yahya778 said:
thanks for the advice, but that's not what I'm saying what I mean is that i have 13k on this account but am getting engagement as if I had around 50-60k followers so I just wanted to boost it up a bit.
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Don't do it. Fake anything could kill all of your efforts thus far.
 
PetalumaFlower said:
Don't do it. Fake anything could kill all of your efforts thus far.
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Ok but have seen some drop in engagement do to the algo so I know it's not just me.
Seems IG is fucking the users very hard as there are no accounts winning in this update just people taking a huge L.
 
yahya778 said:
Ok but have seen some drop in engagement do to the algo so I know it's not just me.
Seems IG is fucking the users very hard as there are no accounts winning in this update just people taking a huge L.
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That is what's happening. When they changed the feed from chronological to showing you the things you "like" the most, my theory was that they did that to purposely drop engagement so they could start charging to reach those same people. Like they did to FB fan pages.

I follow people on Instagram, but I rarely ever engage or "like" anything. So my feed was all out of whack when they made the feed change. I can't find any of the people I enjoy in the feed section. I have to go to their actual profile page if I want to see their photos. That is too much work, so I started following my favorites on Snapchat and left Instagram behind.

That could be another reason your engagement has dropped. Your followers may have just jumped ship from Instagram altogether because they can no longer find you.
 
PetalumaFlower said:
That is what's happening. When they changed the feed from chronological to showing you the things you "like" the most, my theory was that they did that to purposely drop engagement so they could start charging to reach those same people. Like they did to FB fan pages.

I follow people on Instagram, but I rarely ever engage or "like" anything. So my feed was all out of whack when they made the feed change. I can't find any of the people I enjoy in the feed section. I have to go to their actual profile page if I want to see their photos. That is too much work, so I started following my favorites on Snapchat and left Instagram behind.

That could be another reason your engagement has dropped. Your followers may have just jumped ship from Instagram altogether because they can no longer find you.
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I predicted this a long time ago that snapchat will be very big I mean bigger than it already is.
So if IG is fucking everyone I'm not down to pay money for promotion fuck that.
 
yahya778 said:
I predicted this a long time ago that snapchat will be very big I mean bigger than it already is.
So if IG is fucking everyone I'm not down to pay money for promotion fuck that.
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I'm not willing to pay for Instagram's shenanigans either.

You can probably create a Snapchat and post your videos there as well. You can place your Snap name in your Instagram bio, and tell people in your Instagram caption to follow you on Snap. You can also put your Snap name on your website, and you can also post your videos on YouTube.

That way, when Instagram starts to REALLY screw people over, all of your followers will already be safe and sound on other platforms.
 
I doubt you'll get flagged or anything for buying fake followers, or elseyou could just buy fake followers for your competition to get rid of them lol.
 
You won't get flagged but at the end of the day everyone is now wise to the interaction on accounts and if it doesn't look right you'll spend more time defending your page. With the right content you'll grow quickly. People tend to neglect the content and focus on promotion of poor accounts.
 
so I have came to the conclusion that its not worth it at all.
just not gonna do it.
 
When you look at the grow you can achieve organically if done every day it's really worth just putting in the work manually. Everyone is using Instagram for various schemes right now and you have to get personal with it.
 
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