Suparise - A bot that grows your Instagram following

@baidoct I believe this is true and this is how a lot of accounts get shut down. Instagram has upped their game when it comes to bots and will shadowban you.

@baidoct but there is an article linked in @maker post as to why it's safe

@baidoct No you're right. Instagram has been fighting bots for a long time now and a bad bot will definitely get you blocked for a few days, or suspended if you keep on abusing (using a bad bot, buying fake followers, spamming with comments etc...) It's all about limits, some bots will try to grow your account too fast and do too many actions per day, that's no good. We chose to go the safe route, our bot doesn't do too many actions per day so that it's not suspicious. Therefore the growth is not extreme, but it's pretty good and stable on the long run. There's more info on this Medium article we posted recently: https://medium.com/@suparise/the...

@baidoct @maker exactly! thank you @ni_e_sha for your comment :)

@baidoct Yes, absolutely right: IG bots are forbidden by IG's t&c. But growing an IG account is a full time job for a marketer and especially in a startup/one man show you don't have time for that. An IG bot when used carefully, with moderation, politeness and common sense, targeting the right people that are really interested in what you offer, is a good tool that can offer valuable content to the people that you are targeting and save lot of time to marketers.

@lucas_yaknow According to their policy – nothing. "Suparise is not liable in any way, shape or form in case: (a) of account suspension, block, ban and/or content removal by Instagram; (b) for any damages or harm to you, your business or your social media pages. It is the User’s sole responsibility to know, understand and stay informed of Instagram’s terms of use at any time. Suparise cannot guarantee continuous uptime or availability of the Service since Suparise uses the internet to deliver the Service."

@lucas_yaknow It's a good point to mention — as @fijalkowskycom quoted above, Suparise is not liable.

@maker @batmanc Windows Defender is a bit paranoid sometimes. Better safe than sorry though. If that helps, Suparise was approved on CNET a few days ago: https://download.cnet.com/Supari...

@maker @batmanc @clairet CNET is not a reliable source to getting approval. Just saying.

@maker @batmanc @nkotov Really? There was a review process that took about 5 days for us I assumed they were testing applications before putting them online... good to know. To everyone: If you're not feeling it don't install it

@nkotov Many things are againt X's ToS, that never stop customers to use it, whatever it is. Growth automation has always been a thing on social media, but since the update of July 2019 it is especially hard on Instagram. They are just trying here to build a bot emulating a normal use of the app. So why would customers use it? Because if it works it can be useful as hell.

@hofrire Most countries do not have a law against bots so it's not illegal. However, using bots is against IG's terms of use.

@maker Thank you @giulio_maselli hope you will like it! Yes indeed, the few months after June 2019 were a nightmare (for developers too — not finding a way to automate seamlessly was frustrating.. ) At first there were some rumors saying that relying on 4G IPs was the best way, but after some attempts we found out it’s not. Using your home IP address and only 1 Instagram account turned out to be the most reliable way. Be careful though! If you’ve had bad experiences in the past with your accounts (such as action block and temporary suspension), they might be a bit flagged and need a lot of natural actions to go back to unflagged. Do you get action blocks even when you’re using your accounts normally?

@maker @clairet last block I got was back in November, and anyway it was only on the bot and it was an action block on follows and likes for a couple of days. I wasn't blocked on the mobile app. Since then I've never used bots again and never had problems on normal manual activity on the app.

@clairet I see, well some parts of the log like interaction, likes, follows, not this time... Should be updated and visible in real time. Otherwise after two hours I would think it did nearly nothing.

@xavierh This could be a good direction, maybe having an "Activity log" tab on the left to be able to check what's going on. We've had some questions from users saying "is the bot active now? anything else I should do on my dashboard?". Thank you for your input

@xavierh @clairet copy-pastable path for macOS: ~/Library/Logs/Suparise But yeah, that could have been a lot more obvious. Why not have an "Activity" section within the app?

Well, tried it. The lack of activity summary is to reconsider as it is a valuable info for the user. I was disappointed about the results for a recent account (<100 followers) and had much more results by following or retweeting manually a few minutes times to times. Maybe this is more useful for bigger accounts.