Instagram Reversing Manual Actions? - Unfollows

Instagram Marketing
#1

Because of the ongoing action block waves, I’ve taken to scraping a list of users who aren’t following back and slowly, manually unfollowing about 200 people a day.

Unfollowing through this method I haven’t been receiving action blocks, or any “please wait a minute” messages.

I’ve been keeping track of who I unfollowed in a spread sheet, but recently I’ve noticed that some of these users are followed again, and the “following” count has climbed back up.

Is anyone else experiencing this issue of actions being reversed?

#2

Try to refresh the page after the unfollow to see if and how long they stick.

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#3

Thanks Henry. I’ve noticed the discrepancy after 48 hours, so in my case the unfollows are sticking for a while.

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#4

if you unfollow too many at once it unsticks after a certain number within the hour

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#5

Yeah if you unfollow too much even in your regular phone, Instagram can think you are just running a unfollow script.

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#6

Any idea what “too much” is? I’m unfollowing in blocks of 90-110, on the phone, in about 10 mins, without problems.

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#7

Thanks for your feedback @Koven and @Derdam! That’s what I figured; but I’d been sticking to under 50 unfollows per hour, so I was kind of surprised that they weren’t sticking.

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#8

unfollow only 30 to 40 an hour every 2-3 hours. Silent blocks cannot be seen even hours later. try to keep under 100-150 a day to be under the radar

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#9

I’ve noticed on android it doesn’t always tell you that your action is blocked. You can verify by performing a follow or unfollow and then going to your profile page and refreshing. If you unfollowed and it was actually blocked, when you refresh your following will go up by 1.

Iphone seems to be much better at telling you when your action was blocked, it usually pops up a modal.

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#10

man, i don’t have anything against you but please make up statements like this. Do you even know how ridiculous this reply sounds ? IG treats both android and iOS as same in their backend. Its not my perception its a fact. Adding onto this, to people wondering if doing manual f/u is better on iOS devices instead of android - There is absolutely no difference between both (tested on 70+ devices). What matters is how you do your actions .

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#11

I’m not saying blocks happen differently depending on device. I’m saying the android app doesn’t always tell you when your action has been blocked.

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#12

Thanks for sharing your feedback @getseclectic. I think I’ve been experiencing the “silent block” @Alexnvo was describing, because the unfollows do seem to stick when I refresh my profile. It’s only 24-48 hours later that the following number climbs back up.

#13

Hi darling, something has happened with my clients account.
One of them showed to me their account with 207k followers and tonight i saw and its 199k so i refreshed and i dont know why but all of suddenly it becomes to 207k and few hours later had retuned to 199k

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#14

Reload the page, sometimes these problems happen

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