Instagram is only letting me follow 140 people per DAY!

Hi, i I've been using instagram for many months now & have been in the process of developing my own accounts. Everything was going good until recently i noticed that I'm not longer allowed to follow like before.
Now i can only follow like 100-140 people in a whole day, sometimes 2,3 days. I've not been temp-banned/blocked or something. What do you think can be the problem?
I'm using my phone to do everything (manually) , where I'm managing many accounts (I've reason to believe that the number of accounts isn't the problem).

Previously i used to follow private accounts as well but now i just follow public ones, but incase i follow some private account, i quickly cancel the request which means there are a lot of cancelled requests on daily basis + follows (if I'm allowed to follow) so do you think this can be the problem?

 

The same thing happens to me. I don't know if it's normal or if i'm in the same boat as you, but I do believe its instagrams way of preventing bots.

 

Same here , instead of getting temp banned . It just follows and unfollows and then i can follow the next day around 100ish and samething happens again

 

I am not using any bot. I'm doing everything manually on my Android phone through Instagram's Official client.

 

Well, there's your answer, you follow then quickly cancel follow request, that still counts as follow / unfollow.
When you request to follow a private user, it counts as an invisible following, even though it wont show on your following list until they accept it
So what youre basically doing is, following then unfollowing them.

 

It's by hour. Try following 20- 30 people per hour for ten hours

^Warm accounts, slowly increase

 

Yeah sounds like a temp ban wait a full 24 hours and see if that fixes the problem

 

yeah i think this problem same as mine.
i can't follow again after quick follow and cancel it again.

 

Identified the problem. it's cancelling the request to follow a private prick. anyway i have a found a work around. now just keeping track of all private users.

 

that's exactly what happens to my account. i was unable to follow at all for 4 days.
i do not think it's the follow and cancel at all.

on the 5th day i could follow 50.
on the 6th day, today, i was able to follow 130 (including private which i canceled minutes later) the 1st hour. dont know how it goes later today.

 

I just started. Let see how it goes.

 

it's the cancel private accounts thing. i am 100% sure. i have been following for two months and never had a problem and now after this experiment (cancel request to pvt accounts) i started having problems so i abandoned that method and now everything is back to normal