I am working on building an app which would tell you the gender of an Instagram profile.
Example usage:
1 - You upload a custom list with IG usernames and the app tell you which ones are male and which ones are female.
eg: You will upload (.csv or copy paste) ig.com/username1 ig.com/username2 ig.com/username3
2 - You give the app an IG username and it can return its list of followers or followings with their appropriate gender.
eg: You will upload
followers/brand1
followings/celebrity1
The tool will return;
1 - All followers of brand1 with their genders
2 - All followings of celebrity1 with their gender.
Question is;
1 - Do you need this app? If yes, on a scale of 1 to 5, how desperately do you need it? 1 being “eh” and 5 being “I can’t F’n live without it”
The idea is to have a sophisticated calculation methodology based on username, full name, bio, image captions, comments and commentators. Each section would hold a different weight and the system would learn over time and improve its guesses.
Most of them would have imbalanced ratio to clearly indicate what the gender of the profile is. Things get tricky with business accounts but moving forward, the system should also learn to indicate and differentiate between personal and business accounts.
Truth be told, it’s a good and bad thing. Due to the fact it’s not 100% accurate using IG data.
I know another bot has a gender filter launched this year. But the fact remains, they’re guessing according to the username only. Names these days, are not very easy to distinguish.
This app would take a lot of work and methodology to create, but I will be very impressed if it works. It’s a very good idea but just think about whether or not all of the energy and time you will put in it will be worth it