Growing an Instagram profile can be tough. Especially at the beginning. You have to do all sorts of things to attract your first followers: have a proper branding, create content, post it at the right time, make stories…
And repeat this over and over, to finally create this snowball effect that’s gonna bring you a ton of new leads and clients (if you use Instagram for your business).
This is clearly not to get your account restricted by Instagram and suddenly lose everything. But what exactly is really impacting your Instagram account, which kind of actions are risky and which are not ?
If you already have an Instagram account that is very important to you or your business, this article will answer all your questions and doubts.
And at the end of the article, you’ll even get an automated solution that’s proven to get 0 risks for your profile.
Prohibited actions on Instagram
Are automated bots risky for your account ?
Or is it just the fact of spamming everyone with a message that will get reported that is risky ?
No worries, everything will be 100% clear soon. Let’s start with spam.
Spam
Let’s start with spam. Spam is clearly prohibited by Instagram, and here is the exact statement on their community guidelines : « Spam: This is not allowed on Instagram (creating or submitting unwanted email, comments, likes or other forms of commercial or harassing communications). »
At first, you might think that sending messages to talk about your business is forbidden by IG. But if you look closer to this statement, you’ll see that they talk about spam, and « unwanted emails » that can be harassing.
Spamming people is not the same as communicating healthily and properly by DM, asking for authorization. What you need to do is to send a message that feels personal and not commercial, and only then, talk about what you have to offer.
That’s the big difference between spamming people and communicating with people in order to make them discover your business and what you offer. And that’s 100% not forbidden by IG (on the contrary, they want you to make business on their platform, it makes them grow).
Instagram limits
Even if Instagram doesn’t say publicly or on its website what are the exact limits about how many DMs you can send per day, or how many likes or comments you can make, we have some statistics to give you based on our experience (and the experience of millions of people on the internet, actually).
- Direct Messages: you can send a maximum of 60 new direct messages per day on Instagram. A « new direct message » means that you send a message to someone you’ve never interacted with before. That’s not the same as sending a DM to one of your followers for example.
- Likes: you can send up to 500 likes per day (stories, posts, reels) on Insta.
- Comments: you can comment up to 200 posts or reels everyday on IG.
- Follow/unfollow: you can follow up to 120 people per day on Instagram. About the unfollows, it’s really not recommended to do it in bulk, as Instagram has forbidden it a while ago.
Be careful of not reaching all these limits together. If you do everything, reduce each limit by 50%.
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Using bots
If you’re using the Instagram API, you can automate anything that instagram allows you to automate without any risk.
A bot is an automated program that’s automating actions without using the Instagram API. Insta can identify a bot by using several methods:
First, the delays and actions that you make. If for example you’re sending a message to a new profile everyday at exactly 11am, and write the exact same message to everyone, Instagram will think that you’re using a bot (and they’ll be right).
Humans are not interacting like bots, they don’t scroll and write like a bot, and Instagram knows that and has plenty of systems to detect if you’re using a bot or not.
Secondly, Instagram is stricter with people that use it on computers. Simply because a bot is generally made on a computer. So even if you’re manually sending 60 DMs per day from your computer on IG, you’ll probably get a little restriction at a moment.
Best tools to automate your actions without getting flagged
Hopefully, there are tools out there that know how Instagram works, and how to bypass IG limits.
Instant Flow uses AI to create human-like actions on a real smartphone. That means no bot is used here, and no computer.
If you connect your account to Instant Flow, you’ll have to enter a proxy (it’s very easy to provide you one no worries) in order to keep the IP in the same country as you. Then Instant Flow will make the actions of sending DMs from this IP.
They have more than 3000 satisfied clients in the world and are the only ones using real phones to cut all the risks for your account safety.
The best methods to stay compliant and reduce the risks
If you’re doing everything right, you should not get any trouble for your profile. But if you’re still doubtful, there is a very simple method that might be helpful.
Instead of using your main profile to send automated actions, just create a secondary profile and identify your main profile in the biography with the @.
This technique allows you to get everything safe for your main account, and use the second one to do the dirty job.
All that being said, you now know everything to start.
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