I love how detail your post was, thanks for that. Hi Mauro! Overall, an engagement rate that is at least approximately 50% of the above averages would be considered ‘normal’ in my experience, and would not necessarily set off alarm bells. at But I really got fed up with those fake comments and I do block these users….. Socialblade is definitely the tool. Here are some similar questions that might be relevant: If you feel something is missing that should be here, contact us. Stack Overflow for Teams is a private, secure spot for you and
No she’s saying that she puts Hashtags throughout her comments, but only because she sometimes forgets to add them and it’s easier than having to delete the original comment. 11:09 am, February 9, 2018 my last and best try was snappy package that i wrote this code after install and config : I have 2.5 k followers and the engagement is usually 400-500 but not many comments even before i disabled comments, but that doesnt mean I have fake followers. And my suspicions were proved correct – fake followers galore. Sign in with Social Club. :)). But without context, it’s hard to really know what’s real and what’s not. at Hi there! Have a great day! You already know, many individuals are hunting around for this information, you can help them greatly. I’ve been meaning to update this article and add this to it! You’ve got excellent rates, keep up the great work! at Amazing and useful information. Not 5,000. 3:08 pm, November 12, 2016 3:44 am, April 22, 2017 Apart from the many Asian prostitution/ money-friendship users there, those nonsense comment from fake users really made me mad. Unable to download registration information, please check your network connection and try again. at Notice how they barely have any followers yet they are following thousands of other users? at Hmmmmmmm. Let’s say that an account has 5,000 followers, and an average total engagement rate of 5%. 4:17 am, April 27, 2017 I am not a fan of that at all! Omg please finally someone saying the truth about Instagram fake followers fake likes and even fake comments. The feature image for this article is from Unsplash.com (CC0 licensing) so unfortunately, I don’t have that information sorry! From a small brand’s standpoint it is very hard to build a solid following. All things to consider. She is only hurting herself though – those people will not convert, and her engagement rate will cause alarm to those who know what to look for. But nowadays, it is pretty hard to spot just with the above standards. This is the main hallmark of bought followers and likers. Even if someone’s total engagement rate checks out, unfortunately, likes can be bought too. I get everyone has different style but still they are accounts out there they think have a Gucci purse makes them instantly famous on Instagram. Great article! FB always helped and then about a year ago all the “kids” told me that instagram was the way to go. Omg xD people judging everywhere … Although I’m sure some do it for the reason you say, but not necessarily. out GramGenius if you really want to grow your instagram account! Is this legal? The photos were poor quality, the person wasn’t well-known, and they didn’t fill a niche of any sort. Sometimes i do that and I never thought about doing it because of pretending to have more comments. So, why is it important to be able to tell if someone has fake followers? 7:09 pm, December 3, 2017 12:00 pm, December 15, 2017 3:30 am, September 14, 2018 i see that laravel have so many packages to export blade file as exel or pdf but as they are not shareable on social media i want my user to be able to download a certificate from site in image formats like jpg . 7:58 am, July 3, 2017 So we said yes. A month ago she had about 6k followers now she has 16.9k wait no 17.8k yup jumped up about 1000k in 20 mins. So I googled fake followers and voila, that had to be it. And I realized… I had been duped. Also, the byproduct of this, is just more expensive traffic when you advertise on Instagram. Gosh. The easiest way to tell if post likes are fake is to check the number of comments in comparison to the number of likes. Thank you for the kind words. Clearly, it is against ethics and Instagram guidelines, but nobody can truly enforce it. I think hiding hashtags in the first comment is excellent, but spreading them out over multiple comments is definitely not an honest tactic. Thanks and love this. I did similar things but not as accurate as you. Most of my followers are very engaged and we have real comments/conversations – which is all that counts! I agree that overall, comment rates are down, but marketers and brands do look to work with Instagrammers who have a highly-engaged audience, as it implies that their audience cares more about their content and therefore they have more influence over their audience. I looked up this subject because a so-called friend & competitor’s followers has grown from 244 followers to closed to 3000 & climbing rapidly overnight! at I then checked their comments. I first found out about the fake followers when another artist that I knew of and was following had close to 1 million followers. at But wait, you can still be fooled even if this checks out. We’ve resorted to replying to 90% of these messages with a single sentence explaining that we don’t work with bot fed accounts, they don’t reply back, most likely out of shame. I’m wondering how I might be notified whenever a new post has been made. Its name is Social Blade (www.socialblade.com) and it shows a graph of the followers of any Instagram account (it does so also for YouTube and Twitter accounts, but it’s not our point here) in time. I would suggest checking Engagement rates also vary by industry and subject matter (for example, photos that show faces get 38% more likes on average than those that don’t). at site design / logo © 2020 Stack Exchange Inc; user contributions licensed under cc by-sa.