colorme
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- Dec 23, 2015
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Found something sneaky that Instagram is doing if you are using bots to follow/unfollow.
If you are getting action blocked for following/unfollowing, one of the main reasons could be that you are only using "follow scraped users from a list", instead of scraping from followers that follow an account or users that engaged with a post.
Many of us scrape users depending on followers, engagement, last posted in x days, etc, etc. We then upload this list of scraped users to be followed
After some of the accounts that I handle started getting blocked, even when I would let them sit for up to 7 days without any action, the blocks would remain. I use residential IPs and business IPs, so it was not the usual excuse of "proxies", etc, etc. I would also have more than 1 account on those same IPs that were not getting hit with blocks. - The difference between those getting blocked and those not, was that the ones with the block were only using a list of users to follow. By the way, none of the lists had the same users, or niches, as I handle different types of clients. Each list was unique and specific for each account.
Once, I realized this, I deleted the lists, and had the accounts do all the scraping from posts and/or user's followers, now no more blocks when these accounts do follow/unfollow.
As I've written in the last weeks here on BHW, Instagram has found a way to detect bot action for certain ways in which your bot does follow/unfollow. Try it out if you are getting blocked on some accounts and can't decipher the reason why.
My belief is that the way bots do follow from a list of users (only, not scrape a post, select users and then follow them from there) is not human-like.
Hope this helps those of you who are at a loss as to why your accounts were getting blocked.
If you are getting action blocked for following/unfollowing, one of the main reasons could be that you are only using "follow scraped users from a list", instead of scraping from followers that follow an account or users that engaged with a post.
Many of us scrape users depending on followers, engagement, last posted in x days, etc, etc. We then upload this list of scraped users to be followed
After some of the accounts that I handle started getting blocked, even when I would let them sit for up to 7 days without any action, the blocks would remain. I use residential IPs and business IPs, so it was not the usual excuse of "proxies", etc, etc. I would also have more than 1 account on those same IPs that were not getting hit with blocks. - The difference between those getting blocked and those not, was that the ones with the block were only using a list of users to follow. By the way, none of the lists had the same users, or niches, as I handle different types of clients. Each list was unique and specific for each account.
Once, I realized this, I deleted the lists, and had the accounts do all the scraping from posts and/or user's followers, now no more blocks when these accounts do follow/unfollow.
As I've written in the last weeks here on BHW, Instagram has found a way to detect bot action for certain ways in which your bot does follow/unfollow. Try it out if you are getting blocked on some accounts and can't decipher the reason why.
My belief is that the way bots do follow from a list of users (only, not scrape a post, select users and then follow them from there) is not human-like.
Hope this helps those of you who are at a loss as to why your accounts were getting blocked.
