Become Instagram Famous - Alexander Metelev

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stagram Famous

      Alexander Metelev

      Translator Boris Ageev

      Cover designer Tvin Rayan

      Editor Vladimir Duban

      © Alexander Metelev, 2017

      © Boris Ageev, translation, 2017

      © Tvin Rayan, cover design, 2017

      ISBN 978-5-4485-9574-5

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      Preface

      From the author

      I first got introduced to Instagram back in the year 2010, just after several weeks the app first launched I downloaded it from AppStore. The first impression was mixed: there was no one there, your only options were editing your photos and then posting them to some odd “feed’. So I edited and uploaded a couple of photos and only came back about half a year later. Then I realized you could “follow’ other people: at that time, some of my friends downloaded the app so we simply followed each other. I liked the idea of posting photos for your friends to see, the design was minimal and really functional: unlike other social networks (i.e. VK or Facebook) you only had three options and all of them were essential: like, comment, follow, and nothing else needed.

      We were addicted to Instagram. In about two months all my friends and friends of their friends were on it and so it began… Questions like “How many followers do you have?” “How come that guy has so many followers…” and so on and so forth… Then I thought: is there a way for me to increase my follower count and therefore likes on my photos? I started searching the Web but at that moment there was nothing, no promotion services nor any programs nor bots.

      However, the hashtags were there! The basic premise of a hashtag is simple: you post them in your photo description, people from all over the world search for them and then follow you. Most of those people were total strangers. The idea fascinated me and I started using dozens of hashtags which resulted in getting more than 1000 followers in one week, all of them were real people who were leaving likes and comments under my posts. I had, so to speak, the “coolest’ Instagram account in my neck of the woods. Whenever I met my friends they asked same exact questions: “Where did you get all these followers?!”, “Who did you pay for that?”, “Could you please plug my account?!” etс.

      After a couple of months my account reached 3000 followers, providing dozens of comments and hundreds of likes. It was around that time when Instagram started to take over the world. At one point I reckoned that I had less and less new followers through hashtags. Everybody was using them in large amounts like I did so after about a month people stopped coming altogether: I would not have more than a couple followers a week. Stopping at just 3000 people was not enough for me so I started looking into other ways to boost my follower count.

      I could not determine any certain ways to grow as there was no information about in on the Internet yet. Though soon I noticed an interesting notion among more popular accounts: they followed enormous amounts of people, and that just seemed shady. In the beginning I figured they are simply friendly and excessively interested in others’ lives so there is nothing more to it than that. However, after I encountered more and more such accounts following from one to two thousand people each I was convinced that the friendliness was not the case.

      And so I finally found out about mass following and immediately put it to use: I started following everybody. I was spending hours doing that, following hundreds of people a day. To my surprise, almost immediately people started following back and the conversion rate was tremendous; in my first day of mass following I obtained more than 500 new followers, more than half the amount of people I followed returned that. Such numbers I could get after around 3 to 4 days of hashtag promotion.

      With that I pushed further: following from one to two thousand accounts a day for several days. Then I found out the limits of Instagram: you cannot follow more than 3000 people in one day and cannot follow more than 7500 overall. When I reached that limit I was perplexed: I only had 3000 more followers than I had had before.

      Logically, I cycled this process and unfollowed everyone and started all over. After 2 or 3 months I obtained 10000 new followers. And then I realized how much time I wasted…

      Turned out while I performed all these monotonous operations in my home the automatized Instagram services were in work already. The first one

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