Instagram Is Cracking Down On Services That Sell Likes, Followers (recode.net) 25
Instagram will be cutting down on the services that let you buy followers or likes. Starting Monday, Instagram says it will no longer allow "inauthentic likes, follows and comments from accounts that use third-party apps to boost their popularity." That includes buying "Likes" and followers, and paying for other engagement generated by apps that require a user's Instagram login details in order to operate on their behalf. Recode reports: Instagram says it "built machine learning tools" to help detect accounts growing artificially. The move is not retroactive, so Instagram won't be removing "Likes" or followers that accounts have already garnered. It's just going to prevent them in the future. Instagram doesn't list any specific apps or services on its blog post, so it's tough to tell which third-party services will be impacted by this. This kind of activity has been against Instagram's Terms of Service for a while, so it's not entirely clear why Instagram wants to crack down on this now. Here's a logical guess though: Facebook is under more pressure than ever to police the activity on its platforms, given all that has happened with Facebook and Russian election meddling since 2016.
So you mean you admit your numbers are bullshit (Score:3, Funny)
Brave
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No, they explicitly are not retroactive. They're not admitting anything bout the old numbers.
Which is good, because otherwise they may have to admit some people gamed the system.
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Yes it is. Some are pretty good at playing dumb, you can barely tell them from the humans.
The one thing they almost never mention (Score:5, Interesting)
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some Instagram accounts are making serious money (> $10,000 per post) according to a story on Wired [wired.com] (may be paywalled, sorry).
Even money those accounts are some of the ones most heavily engaged in purchasing likes/followers/etc.
rubbish summary (Score:3)
"Instagram doesn't list any specific apps or services on its blog post, so it's tough to tell which third-party services will be impacted by this."
well, those that boost your accounts popularity, i though that was pretty clear.
"This kind of activity has been against Instagram's Terms of Service for a while, so it's not entirely clear why Instagram wants to crack down on this now."
because 1. it's against their policy and they now have a system that can enforce it and
2. fake likes lower the value of your social network.
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The thing with fame, it is almost a catch 22. You can't get famous unless are are already famous. Internet fame is very fleeting, So you don't have time to work up your Social Media Presence until you are a big famous person, You need a kick start to your career. A few thousand likes to boost up your presence, to be posted on the main pages, means other will see your content, then subscribe and watch you if they like it.
The biggest thing is the Algorithm, It doesn't seem to be setup for finding new talent a
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I don't think Internet Fame is a Career. But more of a get rich quick scheme. Where the Odds of getting anything meaningful is like winning the lottery.
If you have marketed your cat as the Grumpy Cat, You probably have gotten a few years of fame, and made a lot of money. However not really enough to sustain yourself for the rest of your life.
We often confuse talent with low production value. They are a lot of talented actors on the internet, but they have such a low production value, that it distracts fro