Instagram is the social network with today, but while its great popularity attracts thousands of users every day, it also bad practices have started on your platform and in an effort to control them it has been announced that they will begin remove fake followers on instagram.
Declared war on fake followers on Instagram
According to the statement published in the , it has recently been noted that some accounts use third-party apps to artificially increase their audience, a practice that runs counter to Instagram’s idea of offering “real experiences, including genuine interactions.
“Recently we have seen accounts use third-party apps to artificially grow their audience. Every day people come to Instagram for real experiences, including genuine interactions. It is our responsibility to ensure that these experiences are not disturbed by false activity. Starting today we will start removing fake likes, follows and comments from accounts that use third-party apps to boost their popularity.”
To detect fake users on Instagram, the social network has developed machine learning tools that are able to identify third-party apps that are related to non-human behavior on their platform.
In this way they can detect fake Instagram followers, comments, and user profiles using these third-party servicesand once identified, the social network will send them a message notifying them about the situation in order to change their password and safeguard their information.
And it is that according to the platform, this measure does not only affect false accounts created to artificially increase the volume of followers or comments from other accounts. Many real users unknowingly share their login credentials with third-party applications that misuse this information, thereby not only the terms of use and rules of the social network are violated, instead, they make those accounts less secure.
The only thing users who have received this message on the social network will have to do is change your password thereby revoking access to your account by these third party applications
These new measures will be applied from today, and the social network ensures that those accounts that continue to use third-party apps to increase their audience “they could see their experience on Instagram impacted”.
Instagram does not want to lose the trust of its users
This update is just one more step in the fight to keep the presence of , and .
Just a few months ago we witnessed a “” in which millions of accounts around the world were excluded from follower counts for being frozen or for presenting abnormal behavior. And it is that abuse and bad practices are one of the weak points in all social networks, a behavior with which they lose credibility and their safety is compromised.
This is why Instagram wants to avoid this type of deception at all costs, especially now that it is attracting a greater number of . Without a doubt, Instagram wants to generate greater trust among its users, show transparency and firm actions to avoid biased, false and misleading content.
Instagram claims that this will not be the only measure you take against this type of behavior on your platform and you will have “More updates in the coming weeks on additional steps we’re taking to address inauthentic activity on Instagram.”
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