Instagram removing likes: follower counts more or less valuable?

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mzinz

Newbie

Oct 31, 2019

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• Nov 9, 2019

• #1

With the recent news that IG is going to remove likes in the US, I had a question:

Do followers become *more* important to businesses, or *less* important?

Curious what people think the impact of this change will be to businesses and the IG marketing industry.

 

sargonluciano

Newbie

Nov 7, 2019

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• Nov 9, 2019

• #2

Could you please provide a link from an official source stating this? Either in a reply or private messages.

 

yherrliche

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Oct 20, 2015

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• Nov 9, 2019

• #3

https://twitter.com/WIRED/status/1192962986224128005?s=20

 

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gotzucked

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Oct 26, 2019

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• Nov 9, 2019

• #4

Probably follower counts, story views (which I'm assuming they will still have), and video viewer counts (if not removed), will be come more important.

 

Pouya Eti

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Sep 12, 2019

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• Nov 13, 2019

• #5

Removing likes won't have any effect on businesses only young people who are just after getting likes. The goal of a business using instagram is to attract more people to the business, doesn't matter if they like or not.