Help me out with this problem

So I dont use any bots to grow my account, I do it all ' fair ' and I am growing my account 100% organically by hand.
One of the methods I use is the follow unfollow strategy, this has been working fairly well until recently my ' following ' count stopped going up when I follow people. It is as if the system does not let the follow go through, it is extremely frustrating as I wasnt able to grow for the past 2 weeks. Sometimes it does go through but most of the time it doesnt.

Has any of you experienced something like this? I dont think Im banned or whatever, but Im relying heavily on this method to grow my account. Let me know if you have any ideas, appreciate it!


Ps. I already reported it twice in the report a bug section but it hasnt helped.

Follow block.. I think alot of us facing this problem.

How long does this last, why did I even get this..?

everyone says from few hours to weeks, but im getting this even with new acc's from first follow.

Give your account a break anywhere from 2 days to a week, depending on on how many times you've experienced this. When you start back up, do more actions between your follows and unfollow and slow it down a bit.