Instagram Shadow ban Effect
If your strategies do not go against the limitations of Instagram and its policies, surely this effect has not affected you directly, but you have heard or read that Instagram sometimes "blocks" or "punishes" certain accounts.
It is very easy to say that it is not known why, but the explanation exists and you will understand it with this article.
How does Shadow ban affect
If Instagram has decided to block an account, among other things, it will complicate the process of creating a community. No matter how many images you upload or how frequently you interact with other users, your community will not grow.
Another limitation of Instagram regarding this censorship is that the publications you make using the hashtags will not be seen publicly. That is, if a user who does not follow you and searches for one of the hashtags that you have used in your post, they will not be able to see it, because Instagram will not show it in the search results.
For these reasons, the interaction and reach of your publications will not grow or failing that, it will stagnate.
If you want to know how to avoid it, take note of the limitations of Instagram that we expose here.
General limitations
Instagram policies explain the four cases in which a person does not have permission to create an account on the said social network.
One of these first limitations is the minimum age to be able to have an account (referring in this case to personal and not company accounts), which is 13 years old.
People convicted of sex crimes will not be able to create an Instagram account.
One cannot create an account if there has been a violation of the law or of the aforementioned Instagram policies.
Tracked account limit
Although it seems a stratospheric figure, depending on the strategy you use in your Instagram account, it could be scarce. Instagram limits the number of accounts a user can follow to 7,500.
From that figure, a message will appear indicating that you have reached the limit. At this time, you should do a cleaning of accounts in a row if you want to be able to follow new users.
But that's not all, there are more limitations of Instagram in terms of followed accounts and that is that a user will not be able to follow more than 200 accounts in the same day, not more than 60 per hour.
Unless external tools are used that may result in the account being blocked.
Instagram limitations for characters
When we optimize our profile, we come to the first limitations of Instagram, i.e, it limits the number of characters.
The User name and Name cannot exceed 29 characters.
The text on biography has a limitation of 150 characters. Looks like the skills we developed for character limitation in Twitter are not twitter specific.
As for the descriptions of the images and the comments, the limitations of Instagram are more benign, allowing up to 2200 characters.
Even though 2200 characters are allowed, after 250 characters […] ‘see more’ will appear making it readable only for those who make an effort.
The hashtags
#Hashtags also have limits on Instagram. You will not be able to write more than 30, however, we recommend not using more than 15.
We are sure you are aware of the trick to write 30 hashtags in the description of the image and another 30 in a separate comment, but this will not work. Instagram will only take into account the 30 hashtags in the image description.
Another shortcoming is that of prohibited hashtags.
Instagram limitations on posts
Instagram stories are gaining more and more strength, and although the stories cannot be of more than 15 seconds, many brands build their promotional strategies using this option.
If you are thinking of following this path, you must take into account another drawback. Alongside a threshold of 15 seconds, Instagram does not allow more than 100 stories on the same day. Agreed 100+ stories would be insane!
Not just daily stories but Featured stories cannot be more than 100 stories either. When one reaches the limit, a message will appear asking if you want to add to the collection or not. If you decide to add, the oldest will automatically be removed to make way for the newest.
Both in the stories and in the publications of the news section, the number of tags that can be added is limited. The limitations are 10 and 20 respectively.
Interaction is also limited
Finally, the interaction with other accounts also suffers from the limitations of Instagram, both by default and by excess.
The limitation on the number of likes per hour is 100 and on comments is 60.
If accounts are mentioned in the comment, there cannot be more than 5 accounts in the same comment.
Repeating the same comment is also penalized, as is commenting more than 15 times on the same photo continuously.
All these limitations of Instagram seem too obvious, but they should be taken into consideration, especially when your strategy towards Instagram is in its nascent stages. At a personal level if we are annoyed with spam, professionally we must act accordingly to not be called spam.
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