In the last weeks, even months, I have read and heard comments of all kinds about the “people” who leave comments without substance on Instagram, who follow you to stop following the next day or who like everything.
I did an Instastories explaining this matter and to my surprise, several people wrote to me privately asking me more about this.
WHAT ARE THE INSTAGRAM BOTS?
A bot is neither more nor less than a computer program that is capable of imitating human behavior automatically. In Social Networks, the bots have gained great prominence in recent years (and much controversy).
Years ago, companies that were dedicated to the little noble work of buying and selling followers, simply sold a handful of false followers to a brand to fatten their number of followers, but the technique was poorly perfected. It was noticeable to the league that those followers were false and a little researching you realized that the accounts had no profile picture, or followers, or activity.
But you know that nowadays everything evolves very fast, and there are already companies that are dedicated to raising real farms of false accounts that behave as if there really was a human behind. Not only are accounts with real aspects (profile picture, bio, posts …) but also interact with other users!
But to curl the curl, it is also possible to link your account to one of these programs to increase your followers without moving a finger.
That is to say: you can achieve REAL / HUMAN followers while you are the one who cheats by linking your account to a bot! Is not it twisted?
And well, what I tell you is not new. The bots have been used on Twitter, YouTube … but when they came to Instagram they did it in a big way. I would say that it is the Social Network where the presence of this small cybernetic carbon cites is most noticeable.
HOW DO INSTAGRAM BOTS WORK?
Well, very simple, you just have to connect your Instagram account with the corresponding program and configure a series of parameters depending on what you want the bot to do for you.
The Instagram bots will use the API of this platform to connect to your account and do X actions (comment, do like, mentions, give follow, give unfollow) in your name. Simply programs and ale, to scratch your belly while the robot takes care of the rest.
WHAT IS THE CONSEQUENCE OF USING BOTS IN INSTAGRAM?
In the best of cases, the consequence will be that your growth in the number of followers will never translate into euros or more job opportunities because you sing to the league that you have taken the easy shortcut and lose all credibility.
In the worst case, it may happen that Instagram closes your account and you have to start over, this time with the lesson learned.
You decide what you prefer, a slow but real growth or a large community that in practice is dead?
If you have been interested in this topic, I leave you an experiment with bots that was narrated in the blog of Outbound and that personally seems to me my illustrative of this problem.
And another super interesting about the results obtained by this girl after two years using the free Instagram bot.
And now it’s your turn. I would like to know:
• Have you ever had contact with these bots?
• Do you know how to detect them?
• You had no idea of its existence until today and you’re hallucinating gherkins?
• Tell me everything in the comments, there we are again
• Thank you for being on the other side of this screen!