This.
I think it’s a mixture of so many reasons, and all we will ever know is nothing. They certainly did this via arbitration, which means all legal disputes are settle quietly and cannot be disputed after/discussed publicly.
Consider that Instagress had been around for 3-4 years.
That’s why they use an Android emulator. There are so many Andorids out there, they would have to ban them all. I just hope that the emulator rotates or was able for us to choose a model… I smell a feature request.
Relax, don’t be a cave dweller
What in tarnation are you referring to brotato?
there’s nothing else that we know and are not sharing, all was discussed in this topic already, I’d like to know what happened exactly as well 
we’ll see how this goes…
and over 60% of that traffic is for the blog with those users having no clue we have a software or what it does 
hope not, we’re good the way we are now
replied in the private section about this… many are just 1-2 account users that want to grow their little business, they will never afford that…
I am certain you are right about this, and we are definitely not happy with what happened with Instagress, if you ask me it would have been way better for them to continue as they were with no problem.
MPsocial is open to anyone that wants to learn or share about social media in general, we do however take care of spammers, that’s why it’s mostly in good shape
If someone does I’d really love to hear the exact reason
no, and definitely hope to never hear from them …except the “account un-banned” emails, those are totally fine 
I know Instagram want to crack down on bots but it seems like the main issue was probably the trademark of ‘Insta’:
I wonder if Instamate is next then!
I received a couple of new PMs today asking for help in learning how to use massplanner. Could be former instagress users
Maybe Brandon is getting a lot more of that.
Maybe it is time for an “Instagress to MP transition service” in the marketplace
The site says Forced to shut down. Something they did violated laws. Botting is not against the law…so something they did…did their own demise…unless threatened to be taken to court which Facebook can afford…and it would cripple business. Another thing…they are offering refunds…that means they somehow prepared for this in the past…it smells a lawsuit of some kind either from Facebook or a class action. if followliker or MP get targeted…there are always bots available that comes around the corner.
You think so? I mean sure there are, but if the crackdown came to mp, then it will send a huge shockwave to the entire self hosted bot industry, so nope, i dont think you will see any around the corner.
Like how pogo bots get shut down, the rest of it just said “we’re done”.
on git-hub the open source site…there are bots galore…use at own risk…it already out there.
I doubt MP would do this…but if they got attacked, and somehow forced to shutdown business…there is no law that said they could not release source for a earlier versions of MP with basic followliker settings…in one swoop…mp would multiply what Instagram was trying to shut down…botting…the young guns would take and run away with better versions…botting then would be part of the face of instagram…forever.
The issue here isn’t likely the source code. They can release it even for free, but without their continuous update, it’s as good as dead.
Like how pogo uses money to crack down on it, now the entire pogo bot industry is basically in ruin. The source is out there, and people can tweak it themselves if they know it, but that’s about it. Granted, it’s not as complicated as how MP is coded.
I doubt any average user is going to know how to code. Let alone fix a bug.
If there’s a need somebody fills it. Worse comes to worse buy a copy of followliker and for me, it’s solved …I use Mp for 2 things only…follow/unfollow and scheduled posts …
I was switching from Instagress to MP about a month ago, and found in their terms that they offered refunds on unused time.
But that doesn’t mean I don’t agree with you.
They totally knew they had it coming. They used ‘insta’ in their name, that is step 1 to getting shut down for sure.
EDIT: Who’s to say that Instagress didn’t ship off a big list of users to Instagram 
A few other sites were forced to close down and pivot there business. My guess is that Instagram didn’t ‘request’ they sent a cease and desist.’
Instagram def didnt’ pay them. This is a legal play. We need to pay close attention to it.
Trust me, Instagram knows about all of this. They have departments of people handling this. As long as they keep their API open to third party apps then there will be products to do what we do.
Through lawyers is the only logical explanation. You bring up a great point, they didn’t say ‘i quit.’ I bet this was a legal case they lost. More will be dropping off soon.
Can’t they just change their name if that is the case instead of completely shut down their service