#INSTAGRAM BOT ATTACK FREE#

I logged back in a couple of weeks later and it identified another 500 more as fake, so clickity click, away they went.

It didn't seem to get rid of the total number I was guessing were fake: before the attack we were somewhere over 3,900 followers. Turns out you still have to manually unfollow them, but you can block each botВ with one click of the mouse, and the list moves up so you're essentialy just tapping for an hour. But to view which ones Manageflitter views as fake (each with a percentage rating) you gotta pay.

#INSTAGRAM BOT ATTACK FREE#

I use the free version from time to time to identify accounts that are dormant and unfollow. So I read a few blogs about it, and decided to use Manageflitter's paid service. With thousands of fakes, it's a huge time sink and strain on your wrist to get rid of them. Unfortunately, in the Twitter desktop site, it takes about 3 clicks to block someone, effectively stopping them from following you.

The crew are aware we've been the target of a large amount of spam followers recently and are working to fix this situation. The first thing I did was tweet about the fakes from I wanted to get out in front of any potential accusations that we were inflating our account in search of elusive prestige. You're worried about having too many fakes. I do my best to block them when I see them but no doubt I have missed some. You pick up the odd fake here and there, everyone does. Symbiartic has had a Twitter account for almost 4 years, and my personal account has been around since 2009.

Was this retaliation? I will probably never know. I started scrolling through the followers list and seeing accounts like theВ examplesВ above.ДЄround that time, I had had a private exchange with someone I will not name, arguingВ about fake followers. But the timing was off, the surge in followers was 3 weeks later. My first thought was maybe it was due to the SciArt Tweet Storm at the beginning of March. But then doubling 3 weeks later.? Like, zoinks, Scoob. The little bump on the far right was from the SciArt Tweet Storm: as the hub of the event, our account received its largest boost ever.

Instagram bot attack