Interesting to read this. Years ago (in the golden age of IG) I was put on the suggested user list and grew to 100K within 2 days or so. But a whole lot of them were bots, or those strange men (ughh yep..). I deleted what I could; unfortunately I used an automatic app, which I think (in retrospect) wasn't the best idea. But culling that many by hand was such a tedious and stressful process. Maybe I should have culled less, but I know they were absolutely detrimental to my % of views, etc etc.
BUT - one thing people should take into account when they're culling accounts is to go slowly. If you do a heap at once, then IG thinks you're a bot and can lock you out. While doing 20 or so, like you said would be fine, if someone were doing more then I suggest do 20 and then leave some time between doing more. Go and engage, comment, etc (be a real person on IG), and then go back and cull some more.
But I like that you're talking about this. Because we all keep seeing these massive accounts and wishing we were like them, but really many of them aren't getting a heap of engagement. And a big IG following doesn't necessarily mean a big bank account.
Thanks, as always, Ilona for your thoughtful words.
Thanks so much for the detailed response Ellie 🙏🏼 Absolutely there are limits on all our interactions on IG if we don’t want to be sent to time out 😊 Possibly that’s something I should address in my next letter. I went and did a little more digging and it seems the general consensus is to not do too much of anything at a time however I’ve yet to come across specific recommendations for a limit on blocking people. I think if you tend toward blocking no more than twenty in an hour or hundred in a day you’ll be safe. I can’t imagine you’d have much bandwidth for manually doing more so I can well understand why you might have enlisted help back in the day. Bots are very annoying aren’t they ? Xx
Interesting to read this. Years ago (in the golden age of IG) I was put on the suggested user list and grew to 100K within 2 days or so. But a whole lot of them were bots, or those strange men (ughh yep..). I deleted what I could; unfortunately I used an automatic app, which I think (in retrospect) wasn't the best idea. But culling that many by hand was such a tedious and stressful process. Maybe I should have culled less, but I know they were absolutely detrimental to my % of views, etc etc.
BUT - one thing people should take into account when they're culling accounts is to go slowly. If you do a heap at once, then IG thinks you're a bot and can lock you out. While doing 20 or so, like you said would be fine, if someone were doing more then I suggest do 20 and then leave some time between doing more. Go and engage, comment, etc (be a real person on IG), and then go back and cull some more.
But I like that you're talking about this. Because we all keep seeing these massive accounts and wishing we were like them, but really many of them aren't getting a heap of engagement. And a big IG following doesn't necessarily mean a big bank account.
Thanks, as always, Ilona for your thoughtful words.
Thanks so much for the detailed response Ellie 🙏🏼 Absolutely there are limits on all our interactions on IG if we don’t want to be sent to time out 😊 Possibly that’s something I should address in my next letter. I went and did a little more digging and it seems the general consensus is to not do too much of anything at a time however I’ve yet to come across specific recommendations for a limit on blocking people. I think if you tend toward blocking no more than twenty in an hour or hundred in a day you’ll be safe. I can’t imagine you’d have much bandwidth for manually doing more so I can well understand why you might have enlisted help back in the day. Bots are very annoying aren’t they ? Xx