835,000 Followers
Only 1 more cycle left (Unfollow 7.5K + Follow 7.5K) to reach a Million!
27 Accounts are now over 10K with another 19 that will hit 10K in the next cycle.
I noticed once accounts hit 10K, their growth is much faster! Some of the accounts that barely hit 10K are now at 14K - that would be like a (4K/7.5K = 60%) 60% conversion rate from following!
So while I was out for 2.5 weeks, only 2 of the 104 accounts got hit with password resets, the rest followed 500-600 daily + 1-2 likes per follow) and then auto-unfollowed (I tried this out for the first time - it works pretty nice).
I see most of you guys did a great job answering the questions, thanks!
Heres my setup:
1. SSL - Instagram Virgin - 50pack with BHW discount - not a single problem ever. Expensive. around $120 a month
Note: Treat this like an official business, not a get rich quick scheme. You must scale within your budget. If you have a budget for only 10 virgin proxies - then use those for 30 accounts. I would not use another crappy cheap provider and risk having the entire business collapse.
2. Greencloud VPS Budget server - $28 a month (usually 35 or 40, but I got a promotion...check their website for promo codes)
3. Greencloud Linux running Wordpress + WooCommerce - $10 a month
4. Everything is on burner numbers, and my burners expire after 2 weeks. If I get PVA'd, I buy a new burner number, type it into the PVA Screen, and voila, good as new. IG has not given me any issue on why my # changes every single time.
5. Yes, Negative growth when unfollowing. Some people use those IG-3rd Party apps that notify them when unfollowed. When I did my first cycle follow-unfollow cycle 7 months ago, the unfollow lost nearly 15,000 followers. Last cycle lost 3K follows, This cycle no loss. It may be that organic growth is now equal to the loss?
6. As per Automation - Bot, this topic comes up over and over and over again in the IG thread. MP does everything through a virtual android interface (IG thinks its a phone) instead of the API (which have now been shut down). Its much harder to tell if its a person adding 600 followers a day or a bot. Theres many peeps on here who treat IG like a legitimate WHITEHAT business, and so they do what MP does by hand. You can outsource this too for $3 /hr on Upwork or Fiverr. When I add people by hand, I add them fast, my delays are short, or none at all, its as if I'm a Bot. With MP, it has random delays from 15-35 seconds between each add - in this case MP appears more human than me doing it manually - goodluck to the IG algorithm figuring it out. But what about the posts, and copying and sharing the posts? I would say that 10-40% of all content are shares and reshares and rerererereshares and throwbacks and reshares of throwbacks from normal humans. A bot fits right in. But what if your content seems off? Never do a straight up copy or ripoff of another account's content - download from 50 sources, and handpick the best ones that match your microniche - I only ever use 30% of what I download - the rest is not good enough.
7. Why do I only post 1-2 a day? Why not every hour, like 12 a day? Because I personally HATE IG spamming. If any 3rd party account takes over my IG newsfeed and I can't find my friend's and family's posts, I will remove the 3rd party account instantly - I don't care how funny, cool, awesome, beautiful, etc it is, you're out. I have some friends and family that sometimes post 4 or 6 day, I nearly hesitated to delete them too, lucky for them they don't do it every day, only on special occasions like a holiday or concert, so I relaxed.
8. Posting, I have a microniche with 20 accounts with 1000 queu'd posts + SpinText. I have the entire thing setup on shuffle, random, and then add back to the queue. No accounts will post the same thing on the same day (they could, but that odds of that on shuffle + random are quite low).
Ok, back to the grind
