how to use proxies for instagram? HELP

They're not super expensive. Keep it to 1 per proxy?

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Define expensive? To some it maybe and others it's not. It boils down to how much you value your IG accs.
Ideally, 1:1 is the best way to go. It takes out the guessing game if your acc was banned because you were running multiple accs on 1 ip.


However, some will aruge that they're running 10-19 accs on 1 ip for months with no issue.

duceduc said:

Define expensive? To some it maybe and others it's not. It boils down to how much you value your IG accs.
Ideally, 1:1 is the best way to go. It takes out the guessing game if your acc was banned because you were running multiple accs on 1 ip.


However, some will aruge that they're running 10-19 accs on 1 ip for months with no issue.

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When an account is pva'ed does the phone nmber source matter? Does it have to be a cell phone? I use RingCentral VoIP phones for my main business. I have over 50 numbers, which can all accept texts and calls. Will this work for verification? Thank you for your help/

if someone could write a guide to this I would pay to read! hahaha

Even doing a bad job in instagram, with only 10 active accs on average (because I've destroyed +30 accs), I get 3 times more leads than using twitter with x2 active accounts (and x10 more followers on average, this means >x20 more followers than my IG accounts).

From my POV, difficulty pays a price but also doing well gives more reward in the end during "maintenance" I spend aproximatelly the same time with IG and TW.

@domenic123, most of the keys are in the post i've wrote before.

Setup can be a hard process, but best idea is to first create a VM with windows and download bluestacks and proxycap. Save that virtual machine as a "template" because you need to restore each time you need to manage your IG account.
Secondly you install that bluestacks executable, configure proxycap to link that recently bluestacks installation and your porxy, and afterwards you start configuring your IG account in your brand new bluestacks installation. When you finish, you can destroy that Windows VM and you will restore it with you template you made before when you needed.


Most of this info, was given by @robibrk we have been discussing ways to solve this issue.

Now I'm investigating how to automate this process, probably is viable to run batch script to do both BS and PC installation, and copy PC proxy configs afterwards. I have not tried with other VM like andy. With Genymotion I had issues so I discarded. I'm thinking on trying also with a Indie account of GM to check if I can manage to do this also.

You have to do this everytime you want to:

a) Create a new account (if I where you I will take the time and config the whole account at the same time, include phone, bio, url and picture)
b) Modify your account (specially changing picture), because you can access to your bio/url through a browser with a proxy, to simplify the task
c) Validate or re-validate your phone account.

SirLouen said:

You have to do this everytime you want to:

a) Create a new account (if I where you I will take the time and config the whole account at the same time, include phone, bio, url and picture)
b) Modify your account (specially changing picture), because you can access to your bio/url through a browser with a proxy, to simplify the task
c) Validate or re-validate your phone account.

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Would you be open to a skype chat by any chance for a few qns?

I have been working with 4 main (work) IG accounts safe settings so naturally very slow process. I am trying to promote those accounts by growing and supporting these accounts by creating 10 new accounts.

Tools I have so far:
Followliker
Scrapebox
No Hands Proxies

My biggest challege is I am a novice at almost anything I do, no knowledge on VPS, Proxies, Backlinks etc but I want to at least create a good strategy for IG, twitter and pintrest. I have patience and am happy to learn.

I will DM you my skype

Hello @tryagain2day
You don't need VPS
If you look in Google: proxycap bluestacks
You go to this link: http://www.proxycap.com/bluestacks.html

For the virtualmachine you can use Oracle VirtualBox for example
Check this:
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/tr-dojo/clone-and-move-virtual-machines-in-virtualbox/

And that's all you need (obviously you need to install a Windows so search for a Windows image, you don't even need to activate it, because you will be using it for less that 1 day!)
You have all ISO images here: http://www.w7forums.com/threads/official-windows-7-sp1-iso-image-downloads.12325/

SirLouen said:

Hello @tryagain2day
You don't need VPS
If you look in Google: proxycap bluestacks
You go to this link: http://www.proxycap.com/bluestacks.html

For the virtualmachine you can use Oracle VirtualBox for example
Check this:
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/tr-dojo/clone-and-move-virtual-machines-in-virtualbox/

And that's all you need (obviously you need to install a Windows so search for a Windows image, you don't even need to activate it, because you will be using it for less that 1 day!)
You have all ISO images here: http://www.w7forums.com/threads/official-windows-7-sp1-iso-image-downloads.12325/

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wont you need a VPS if you dont want your computer to get friend from running 24/7?

BigTroll said:

Dude, you're on this forum for +2 years and you are asking the most stupid possible questions

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made an account two years ago. Whats with being a dick?

It's usefull to have a VPS if you plan to use Massplanner or Followliker for autotasking (follows, dms, scraping and that). But with little IT knowledge, it's a medium level job, so I will go first to IG basics, maybe with Unfollowers or Crowdfire for example before going to higher level.

The interesting thing about IG, is that you wont be following and unfollowing massively like TW. At the beggining, no more than 100 follows/unfollows, and keeping that level until aprox 1.000 followers, after that you can increase to 200 and over 3.000 followers a 10% aprox (3000 => 300 follows, 4000 => 400 follows and going on). You can start semi automatically with Crowdfire for example, for 5-10 accounts and meanwhile watching some followliker or massplanner tutorials (there are thousands in youtube, and a lot of manuals here in BHW). Managing 100 follows-unfollows of 10 accounts with Unfollowers is a matter of 5 minutes a day.

But setting it up in an automate system, without the basics, from my POV is throwing money away, because you might get banned 1 million times as it happened to me.

@thepersianhustler

I have learnt that with IG (social media in general) you need to use local proxies ie Ireland proxies if you are in Dublin. This could explain why you are being flagged for "location".