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Re: Re: What exactly is Instagram for?
| quote: | Originally posted by Vivid Boy
It's mainly for selling protein powder in pyramid schemes these days |
I'm trying to earn enough so my unborn daughter doesn;t have to sell Protein powder on Instagram.
Seriously, instagram is a visual platform, but that's not to say you don't get great engagement. Sure you can set up an account for your cat/dog/chinchilla and have a couple of thousand followers in a month, or you can just post pictures of latin chicks with surgical enhancments and have thousands of bots, but honestly, the platform is what you make it.
For businesses that actually sell physical items or IP, the engagement is far better than FB and unlike facebook, there's no throttle on who sees it - your entire base of followers see you posts and then the way it's algorithm works, people who are a connection away get to see it so the viral effect is incredible. It does somewhat learn to trending, so popular posts get more play etc, but you can build a really good base and nothing really presents like it.
As for bots, yes, it's rife but that's really only on the bot trends, so if you're pursuing certain hash tags it's going to be a cluster but a little thought gets you to the right people. unless you're one of those girls that's bio says "for commercial enquiries" and all their pics are of them in dubai or Ibiza. Apparently even some celebs supplement their income this way.
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