IG new UNFOLLOWING limits / Temp blocks
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prisonsoap
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- Sep 26, 2015
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Ive been unfollowing ~600/day for the past few days. I started off manually and moved to crowdfire today. If I go above 600 I get a block. Those are my results on two accounts.
prisonsoap
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- Sep 26, 2015
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Have you pulled back on your follows as well because of the limits or trap theory?
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Are you dedicating a special day to just unfollowing 600 a day? Are you still able to get new followers on days that you unfollow?
Temporary ban at 881 unfollows today. Certainly an improvement. I don't know where people are getting ideas purely based on spamming. Unless you all have inside information, we don't know exactly the purpose behind preventing unfollows. There has always been a limitation on unfollows and follows. Going too fast before this change would have resulted in a temporary ban as well.
With that said, it could be that there was server issues perhaps, who knows. Maybe there was too much activity and they had to throttle everything. I don't think it's worth it to blindly speculate unless you have some type of previous experience or knowledge to go on.
Limiting comments, DMs, and things of that nature makes perfect sense to me. Limiting unfollows/follows, beyond avoiding too much stress on the server, does not make sense. There are a lot of young people on social networks now, that have nothing to do, that COULD follow people all day, or decide to unfollow everyone on their list, or just plain mess around on their account all day. How could instagram possibly police everything like that without degrading the user experience?
I understand that they may not care much, but now that the limitations are changing again, I do not believe it had anything to do with spammers necessarily. They also recently have upgraded the software, and not long ago I was experiencing server issues when trying to post manually from the app on my phone.
The guy that said things would be back to normal seems to have some merit.
With that said, it could be that there was server issues perhaps, who knows. Maybe there was too much activity and they had to throttle everything. I don't think it's worth it to blindly speculate unless you have some type of previous experience or knowledge to go on.
Limiting comments, DMs, and things of that nature makes perfect sense to me. Limiting unfollows/follows, beyond avoiding too much stress on the server, does not make sense. There are a lot of young people on social networks now, that have nothing to do, that COULD follow people all day, or decide to unfollow everyone on their list, or just plain mess around on their account all day. How could instagram possibly police everything like that without degrading the user experience?
I understand that they may not care much, but now that the limitations are changing again, I do not believe it had anything to do with spammers necessarily. They also recently have upgraded the software, and not long ago I was experiencing server issues when trying to post manually from the app on my phone.
The guy that said things would be back to normal seems to have some merit.
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abtabt
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- Feb 17, 2015
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Is that follows only? Any changes to unfollows?
I'm sorry, I need to edit my post. That was supposed to be UNfollows. I have not had any problems following.
prisonsoap
Junior Member
- Sep 26, 2015
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With all these changes, has anyone had any problems with their Follows? How high can I push before it's dangerous...~1500? Higher?
Indeed.
Managed to do over 1000 unfollows in all my accounts in the past days. Only yesterday one of my accs did 1400 and another 1100... Bans seems to be random though, cause a third account got blocked after 500 unfollows, having unfollowed 950 the day before. Out of all, one of my accs (curiously or not, the oldest and largest one) has been able to do over 1000 unfollows everyday for the past 3/4 days.
longjohnlimber
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It's odd, some of my accounts are going fine, but others getting blocked. Maybe give it a day or so and we should be good
The Blackhat Guy
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- Oct 15, 2014
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Exactly!'Back to normal' doesn't mean you can unfollow 7K in 2 hours
Some ppl are just idiots...
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The Blackhat Guy
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Just arrived and here are my two cents
I noticed that there is a kind of relation between those apps / websites which you gave permission to manage your insta-account and the behaviour of your app. I had unfollowers.c*m and crowd... listed among my "permitted apps" to manage my account. I was not able to receive any activity updates (activity stream) within the app in the past few days until I removed the permission for these previously mentioned apps and voila!
Is it possible that they scan your acount-managing-list of apps and websites (key words for setting the limits like crowdfire etc) to set their limits for unfollowing and following! I have a strong presumption that this is the case.
I noticed that there is a kind of relation between those apps / websites which you gave permission to manage your insta-account and the behaviour of your app. I had unfollowers.c*m and crowd... listed among my "permitted apps" to manage my account. I was not able to receive any activity updates (activity stream) within the app in the past few days until I removed the permission for these previously mentioned apps and voila!
Is it possible that they scan your acount-managing-list of apps and websites (key words for setting the limits like crowdfire etc) to set their limits for unfollowing and following! I have a strong presumption that this is the case.
Do you know what the purpose of the temporary limitations was?You're welcome
The Blackhat Guy
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Yes, they wanted to detect some bots.
So everything is back to normal or there's some "random trap" system going on?