# NEW ISSUE: Inauthentic activity **URL:** \ **Category:** Instagram Marketing\ **Created:** [April 11, 2019, 3:35pm UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/new-issue-inauthentic-activity/63423 "2019-04-11T15:35:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 141
**Author:** ![Zettt](https://mpsocial.com/user_avatar/mpsocial.com/zettt/32/32251_2.png) [@Zettt](https://mpsocial.com/u/Zettt)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 5:20am UTC](https://mpsocial.com/t/new-issue-inauthentic-activity/63423/141 "2019-05-27T05:20:14Z")
I’ve received the same message yesterday. It’s true that the wording makes it sound more scary. Over the last couple of days, I’ve been testing a couple apps, most of which are for scheduling posts. I realize there are some services, that I just now realize offer “promotion” services as well. There’s a mobile app called “Cleaner for Instagram”. They offer a new app named “Famous”. It’s simple for what it does. You submit a pic to the service, they show it to their users, and they can choose to interact with it through the app. It’s a big comment and like pod. I’d not write this comment, if I’d not have just received an email from Crowdfire as well – which is a far more popular, known, and reputable service. They offer new promotion possibilities now too. My suspicion is that the “crackdown” also affects this kind of promotion. I’ve been setting up Crowdfire for auto-posting, so it might have caused the warning to trigger. Here’s an excerpt of the mail Crowdfire sent me: > Good news! You’ve been selected for Crowdfire’s Creator Program where we promote your posts to thousands of social media influencers for free. Here’s how it works— > > - You opt-in as a Creator and we start recommending your posts daily to social media influencers through the Crowdfire app. > - They share your posts (with credits) with thousands of interested followers across Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter. > - You start getting more and more views, likes, and followers every day! Although I’m more leaning towards saying that participating in such a service is “authentic”, because a human interacts with the content, I can see how it’s also skewed, because some people are going to liking pictures only to get “free credits” – which has been shown in the past with similar services. I’m not getting a sense of “it’s safe to do x, and not safe to do y” from reading this thread. Did we reach consensus yet? Thank you all for sharing the information. --- _[View the full topic](https://mpsocial.com/t/new-issue-inauthentic-activity/63423)._