This is why bots are dangerous for your instagram account!

Francesco Giuliani
Sep 5, 2018 · 4 min read
Instagram Bot

As we all know, Instagram, is a social network born in 2010, and it became famous thanks to its diversification from the other social networks, based on the creation of special and unique photo and video content, where it was very easy to get a high number of interactions.

Over the years, users within Instagram have multiplied, making it one of the most used platforms in the world with more than 600,000 active users every day.

During the years, more and more people have decided to use Instagram for their business online, and, many, have come to gain fame,money and success thanks to it covering the working role of Influencer.

Without a doubt, it has become really difficult to become famous on Instagram, because the competition is strong and you must always reinvent yourself by creating different and particular contents, in line with existing trends, to have the possibility to finish in the popular section, and grow exponentially your own number of interactions on your profile.

When at first, many people became famous on Instagram in a natural way,thanks to their quality content and the proper use of all the tools on the social, other people have decided to go for the “easy way” using blackhat techniques through the use of the famous Bot.

The Bot is a software that performs for you inside Instagram, leaving a certain number of likes , comments, follow and unfollow in an automated way to other Instagram accounts similar to yours.

This system leads to a rapid growth of likes, comments and followers on your profile, and, the number of interactions can be more low or high depending on how you set the software (you can decide the number of actions to perform, the amount of time between one action and another, the number of users to be followed daily, the niche of users on which to act and so on ..), you can even get more than 250 followers per day. Too good to be true right?

Exactly because not everyone knows that Instagram realized that many people use this blackhat technique to increase unnaturally their engagement, and has developed several penalizations for those who use this system including several bans.

Moreover, once the use of these Bots is over, the Instagram profile will be corrupt:

You will receive very few interactions (likes,comments and followers), and you will lose many followers making your account completely ruined and it will take months to get your account performing again.

Also, you must know, that you will receive interactions on your account only when you are using it and once you disconnect your account from the Bot, almost all interactions earned will be lost.

Many users decided to use these tools that make you get a false visibility, but they didn’t understand that when you rely on this tools, you are damaging a large part of the social network, and you are going against the fundamentals of Instagram, genuine and spontaneous interaction between users .

This does not penalize only the user who uses the bots giving it visibility and non-existent interactions but also penalizes all those users who use instagram correctly and that deserve visibility and an interactions that are so difficult to obtain.

The Bots, combined with the purchase of packages of like and fake followers are sending Instagram into inflation of interactions. This also penalizes brands that no longer know who to give their products to sponsor because they can no longer distinguish the true from the fake and they obviously turn to famous influencers to make sure of receiving an economic return, and this penalizes all micro influencers who have a real following.

Instagram is trying in every way to solve the problem, but it is worrying to see how many websites with plans for growth there are around.

Like all things, also getting fame on Instagram is the final result of months of commitment and dedication, combined with the conscious use of all the real tools we have (Instagram campaigns, correct use of the relevant hashtags, identify the right timing to share a photo, know how to read insights, use ig stories, igtv etc. etc.), stay away from all those sites or social agencies that promise you growth plans in a short period of time, invest your money in useful tools to the creation of your contents but above all be patient, your work will always be repaid.

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