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Best way to delete followers?
I recently got a list of my followers and I’m trying to delete the ghost followers and bots but I’m not really sure what is the best way to do it? I try going into the app and searching for each name but I quickly got banned from doing that. Now I’m on the computer searching by URL through chrome browser and blocking each person but I’m afraid that I’m going to get banned that way as well. Also I’m not sure if blocking is the best technique.. I appreciate your help everyone is so supportive in this forum!
EDIT: It’s instagram!
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You haven’t mentioned what social media platform you’re referring to. Reddit? Instagram? Facebook?
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It’s not worth the time. Move on and invest in other things.
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Why exactly do you want to do this? Im really curious
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manually blocking is probably the best route, I don’t think there’s a publicly available program that would be able to accurately comb your list and identify bots and mass delete them.
Your only concern should be too many API requests, too many blocks in one period of time, that kind of thing can kick in some system regulation of your account such as limiting your ability to perform other actions for a period of time.
For this same reason, you’ll just want to block, rather than soft-block (block & unblock to force the account to unfollow you without blocking them permanently).
I don’t know the exact numbers in terms of how many actions in a time period will cause trouble, but if you block about 30 every six hours you’ll probably be fine.
It’s also unheard of for any social media platform to penalise a long block list
Best of luck!
For anyone curious, there are multiple reasons you don’t want bots or spam accounts following you:
1. A better understanding of how your actions are reaching your followers, which having a percentage of them basically be bots would skew those metrics when you look at any analytics.
2. it’s understood that most of these social media platforms will choose to recommend or highlight your account to other users based on various factors that contribute to how much the algorithm thinks your account will be a good match for someone, amongst these factors, sometimes what kind of followers you attract will be factored in, and thusly could negatively affect your account’s ability to reach more people
3. in the off-chance someone looks at your followers, they might see that they’re all bots, and think less of the quality of your account
EDIT: there USED to be a lovely tool for Twitter that could show you who you’re following and who’s following you, and you could then sort by the last activity on those accounts to weed out any that are inactive. ‘mass unfollow ‘ something… might be worth doing a quick search for a tool with similar functionality for instagram
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Hi, you can simply go to you profile, click on follower and there you will find remove button. Click on it and they will be removed!
I am talking about deleting followers from instagram mobile app. How you got it.
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