Hi,
Has anyone noticed that you get random unfollows?
I’m not sure if the person has unfollowed for their own reason or not? Or whether it’s a random algorithm bug.
I feel embarrassed to ask hey any reason why you’ve unfollowed?
I’ve lost about 5 people?
I don’t promote or push much tbh as I’m more doing the modelling for confidence and fun seeing where I go with it all :-)
Kelly x
Honestly don't think about it, the less you analysis followers and likes the more fun you'll have and post what you want to post.
Sometimes it's bot accounts, sometimes it's accounts closing, and sometimes it's just someone's right to unfollow :)
Edited by Holly Alexander
Thanks I deffo need to be more self focused and relax more.
Maybe it was my Catwoman pic 😂
Since Instagram decided videos and the like were the thing, I’ve lost a lot of followers (cos I don’t do videos and whatever those other things are). I also try to catch bot followers and block them (at least I assume anyone who can’t be bothered to even add an icon is likely to be one). I guess if insta removes bota and a bot is following you, you’ll lose a follower?
Onwards and upwards 🙂
I'm very much a statistics person. I can't help it as it is just the way I am wired. With IG, I have become oblivious of who follows me as 95% never interact with me at all. So thinking about numbers following has become pointless.
Holly Alexander said
Honestly don't think about it, the less you analysis followers and likes the more fun you'll have and post what you want to post...
Sometimes it's bot accounts, sometimes it's accounts closing, and sometimes it's just someone's right to unfollow :)
^ This
I follow models that I find inspiring, that are travelling maybe also in my direction,
that are located in places I occasionally travel to, models I woud like to work with
some day.
I unfollow them when they get tattooed, or when they exhibit behaviour that I deem
detrimental to a good shooting.
Tattoos don't work for my kind of shooting. No problem, there are
lots of photographers out there who love them.
On this platform I am looking for folks to work on my free work aside of commercial
assignments. Leisure time, free spirit time. Why waste this precious and scarce time
with people who exhibit a seemingly abrasive character?
Other than that I don't check who follows/unfollows me, who casts a like.
The goal is the resulting picture, not the number of likes.
This platform (as I use it) is for networking and creating contacts, not for
the accumulation of likes and followers.
In the beginning, looking at the number of views was first puzzling.
My favorite pictures got far less views than others. Took some time to find out
that one can look at the percentage of likes vs views. Saw that my favorites,
while having far less views showed a massive advantage of like percentages.
So obviously the networks of models do play a role in view numbers.
Experienced professionals have more followers, which generates more views.
The percentage of likes though shows my taste isn't off at all.
Case closed, I stopped looking at numbers after that.
All following is meaningless, its only there for advertising. Other than I use it to message a few people
I unfollow them when they get tattooed, or when they exhibit behaviour that I deem
detrimental to a good shooting.
You mean demanding behaviour (diva) or just not agreeing with idea's?
kellzmodel said
I unfollow them when they get tattooed, or when they exhibit behaviour that I deem
detrimental to a good shooting.
You mean demanding behaviour (diva) or just not agreeing with idea's?
Demanding behaviour, or overly deterring in their conditions.
Or talking bad about others without obvious reason.
I am fine with paying, providing contract/release in first communication,
agree with shoot styles, show mood boards - just what the business is.
Reading between some lines though, from experience there are
signs of minefields. These I unfollow.
I have no idea of the followers I have lost or not as I not posted a new image on there since August '22, preferring to use Vero as it less restrictive. I keep my account open as I still receive messages enquiring about my progress after my strokes.
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Edited by Gregory Mason
Sorry to hear about that 🥺 Hope you are on the way to recovery.
I’ve got a Pixelfed account but not really done much with it so far.
ClickMore 📷 said
I'm very much a statistics person. I can't help it as it is just the way I am wired. With IG, I have become oblivious of who follows me as 95% never interact with me at all. So thinking about numbers following has become pointless.
This is probably more bang on that you realise. All social media has now moved away from the concept of followers and moved over to recommendations.
People who follow you won't be served your content with any bias. Meta uses relevancy scores (essentially how likely you are to engage with a piece of content). TikTok throws videos out to a small 300-strong sample audience to see if it should be pushed, and YouTube is much the same but bases it on watch time. All of these platforms will pre-build a column of posts to serves to you (some up to 500-strong) based on the kind of content you've recently viewed, as well as creators or accounts you've very recently viewed.
The whole notion of having followers in 2024 is, sadly, very much dead as far as social media goes.
Kirk Schwarz said
ClickMore 📷 said
I'm very much a statistics person. I can't help it as it is just the way I am wired. With IG, I have become oblivious of who follows me as 95% never interact with me at all. So thinking about numbers following has become pointless.
This is probably more bang on that you realise. All social media has now moved away from the concept of followers and moved over to recommendations.
People who follow you won't be served your content with any bias. Meta uses relevancy scores (essentially how likely you are to engage with a piece of content). TikTok throws videos out to a small 300-strong sample audience to see if it should be pushed, and YouTube is much the same but bases it on watch time. All of these platforms will pre-build a column of posts to serves to you (some up to 500-strong) based on the kind of content you've recently viewed, as well as creators or accounts you've very recently viewed.
The whole notion of having followers in 2024 is, sadly, very much dead as far as social media goes.
If you look through your followers there are categories. Least Interacted With, Most Shown in Feed. These are exactly the same profiles. That tells me that, the more I interact with a profile the less I will see their posts. This makes no sense at all. Unless they want you to interact then flood you with new profiles (usually ones with 10,000s of followers).
I would imagine that's a statistical anomaly. I don't have the most shown, but I would say that it's taking the posts that it most serves you and factors in the amount of these that you don't interact with, but is widely ignoring posts you don't see in you phone. So the theory is that you must be served a profile for a lack of interaction to be registered.
If you were to hunt out a random profile, like a handful of images and spend 30 seconds scrolling through the content you'll then get served more because Instagram thinks you will engage with it more and, ultimately, stay on the app for longer.
In reality, it's not a great system most of the time, but there are some times when it shines.
