Hey! I’m doing a short anonymous school research survey on how short-form content (TikTok/Reels/Shorts) affects attention span and study habits in students.
It takes less than 5 mins so I would really appreciate your response so much 🙏
Link: https://forms.gle/wQRfW21Tp422vfEw7
Thank you!!
I recently received a lot of messages from ChatAI saying my account got “violations” and I’m not sure if they’re legit or just scammers/phishing messages.
I have seen accounts posting 10-15 posts a day
Still learning here! It is so interesting to see how picky people are to click follow, and it’s like I’ve been so focused on creating I’ve forgotten what it’s like to be a follower because im the same way on my personal account 🤣
I noticed when I removed military family from my bio my profile visits to follow ratio increased, not sure if that’s a coincidence but I was trying to real niche down and thought adding that would help make my profile look more unique
I kind of went viral and had 150k views in the past few days. Like 200 people visited my profile but only 50 followed. I see some other pet pages with awful cringy content and they have thousands of followers. I have no idea how lol. I’m trying to be a clean aesthetic page, like “dang I want that dogs life” kind of page. I don’t have him yet, only have some content from our meetup day, so I want to FIX my profile before I bring him home and really start bringing in views.
If you clicked on a puppy page, what would make you follow? (Golden retriever)
how do you guys get honest feedback on your profile? Is posting a handle on here safe? I don’t want bots to find me!!
I’m up to 161 in 3 weeks
Ill give my feedback on what I believe you can do better or fix to make it more geared towards your niche and/or the Instagram algorithms.
I’m suprised when I speak with social media managers and they don’t realize that Instagram actually runs several algorithms.
That’s why specific advices don’t work equally for everyone. It’s also the reason why one post does well and another is just meh.
Instagram runs multiple AI-powered ranking system, each tailored to a different part of the app.
Feed, Reels, Stories, Explore, and Search each work differently, and your content can perform differently in each one. Most people treat Instagram as one system when it’s really several.
Feed asks would this person care?
Reels asks would they watch this all the way through?
Explore asks would they trust us if we put this in front of them cold?
For feed, the signal it weighs most heavily are saves and comments. Relationship depth matters more than follower count as well.
For Reels, the most important signal for distribution is sends via DM. Reels look at how long you watched, rewatches and engagement with the post.
For Stories the important signals are replies, taps, close friends behavior and recent interactions. That’s why stories with questions or polls often do very well.
Instagram is one of the biggest tools today to build a business. You get the most out of it when you learn stuff like this.
Open to answering questions.
Just curious since I am stuck at the 100 views
I've been hearing a lot from colleagues that the idea of 'just post something' is even harder than creating more traditional creatives, i.e. more 'polished' for want of a better word.
I'm starting to think this is because it's so easy to veer off-brand and get a bit lost, plus if you're still a bit old school it feels kind of embarrassing to post such rushed content?
How do you deal with this? Particularly interested to hear from you if you're also a millennial marketeer, haha.
Hey guys. Pretty dramatic tittle right?
Anyways, I have 39+ followers (new cat theme page). I upload funny cat clips ect. 90% of my followers are also cat theme pages (looking for more followers).
Anyways, I use to get 100-500 views per video (ik im in a low view jail but I was going to try work my way out of it)
Anyways, now my videos get like 1-12 views analytics say most people swipe away & that the audience are my followers
Anyways.... Is it a problem that all these theme page follow me? Now my content is only being shown to them and they don't wanna watch it
Hi ! For some reason one of my reel reached 100M views in around 4 months, I don’t know why exactly but nevermind.
I had around + 20k followers with it, it’s decreasing now (I guess lot of bots or inactive users) but it showed something interesting (and sad to me ahah) : the day before it reached 100M I had around 1000 views / mn and maybe 150 followers a day, the day after it dropped to 10 views / hour and not a single follower.
Is the 100M step impossible to climb ?
Thanks
Hey everyone my names Jordan. I have an instagram that i dont know how i couls try and make it more reachable for more people. Could someone help me out and get some tips to help me out. My IG handle is Jordan.m97. If people could check it out and see how i could make it better, see how i could reach more people and see what i else i could do
Working with a burnout recovery and boundaries coach for 3 months and I have not seen any growth, worse, no clients.
I’ve bought lots of smm materials and paid for trainings and stuff. I’ve applied what I’ve learned, but all still flopped.
Please help me. Like what’s the real strategy. I hope this thread helps others who are in the same situation.
I’m a photographer and feel like I get little interaction with my posts. What should I improve on and what would help me actually find clientele?
Hi again!
My last post was about Instagram hashtags, and I mentioned briefly how the Instagram algorithm works. Now, I'll explain the algorithm in detail, starting with the example of a 1k followers Instagram account.
When you post something on Instagram, that post is initially shared with the first 10% of your followers. But who are these first 10%?
They are the people who have been following you and interacting with your account from the beginning, such as liking, commenting when the post is live, or replying to your stories.
Now, every post you make has certain parameters. When these parameters are met, the post is further pushed to the next set of followers. This phase is what I call the "initial."
So, what is "initial"?
In simple terms, "initial" represents the average engagement of multiple posts. Here's an example:
Suppose you have 1k followers, and on average, within 10 minutes, you're getting 70 likes and 5 comments. This average is obtained by analyzing the last 10-20 posts.
Why is "initial" so important?
Whenever you make a post on Instagram, if the post fails to surpass the initial engagement, it acts as an instant result of whether or not that content is going to work on Instagram. This is because it reflects the reaction of your audience - the same first 10% of people who love your content. If the post fails to please them, it lacks something. So, for the next time, try to improve.
Continue this process until you manage to increase your initial engagement from, for example, 70 likes to 80-90 likes. That's how you do it.
And that's how I managed to grow from 100 to 360k followers on Instagram.
You should focus on this magical 10-minute data called "initial." I've spent the last 7 years studying the algorithm, and while I don't claim to understand it 100%, I know enough.
I've grown more than 10 accounts from 0-10k during the lockdown and sold them to other people. This is just the tip of the iceberg; there is a lot more to this, and I don't want to bore you. So, I'll cover another topic in another post.
If you want me to cover other topics as well kindly let me know in the comments I'll try my best to provide the information
UPDATE: This post went really viral last time, and I want to do this again and answer questions you guys had.
Hi all
I work for a small lgbt community based archive. I have been trying to work on our instagram reels strategy for fundraising. I have seen many guides to hooks for videos but not for non profits. Does anyone know if anything like that exists or have experience in using short form video for non profit communications? Thanks
I have an Instagram account that was previously at 970k followers.
About 6 months ago, I switched the account to private. During that time, I estimate that somewhere between 50k–100k people tried to follow me, meaning their requests were stuck in “pending” waiting for manual approval.
I also deactivated the account for around 3 months, then reactivated it again about 3 months ago.
Yesterday, my account was sitting at 899k followers, so I decided to switch it back to public. I expected all pending requests to automatically convert into followers, but that didn’t happen. Only a few hundred followers were added, even though Instagram still showed “999+” pending requests.
What’s confusing is that in the past, when I went private for only a couple weeks and then switched back to public, I instantly gained 15k–30k followers from pending requests being auto-approved.
Now, even though the account is public again, I can still see tons of accounts stuck in pending requests inside my notifications.
Has anyone experienced this before or know how to fix it? Is this some kind of Instagram glitch or rate limit?
My friend also had a similar issue where they had 600 pending request and when they went public only 100 of them were accepted.
I am learning how to make a carousel. Struggling to find curry arrow icons in png format. How is everyone doing it? Mine is basic strategies, playing with indoor photos of my camera gears showing my equipments and different rigging styles.
US based. Niche in fitness, lifestyle, sports, wellness, health, comedy, travel, and/or family preferred. Only relevant account niches in a group.
Creating a highly active circle to comment and support each other's growth.
Serious people only who will be active. Around 20-25 people in a group.
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I run an Ai study tool website and when I made shitty Ai videos I got 100 view range atleast but now I actually proper made a video and I got zero views and I have another page which was a clipping one that I stopped using a couple months ago and I changed it into my study Ai tool page and I posted another video and nothing then I posted a Mr beast clip to see if it would get views and it’s at zero it’s even like that for tiktok what’s going on my page is called lerivo.org_ and lerivo.org_ice Please give me some advice
For the longest time I thought Instagram just did not like my account.
Same story every time. Reel goes out, climbs to around 800 to 1,200 views, then completely flatlines. No explanation, no pattern, just the same invisible ceiling every single time.
Turns out it was not the algorithm. It was the first two seconds of every reel I posted.
The algorithm is not deciding if your reel goes viral
It is deciding if your reel deserves a second audience.
Every reel gets shown to a small initial test group first. Around 100 to 300 people, a mix of your followers and cold accounts. What happens inside that group determines everything that comes after.
Hold retention and Instagram sends your reel to a second audience. Bigger pool, another test. Hold again and you move to audience three. Fail and you plateau.
This is why reels get stuck at weirdly specific numbers. 1k, 5k, 10k, 50k. Every single one of those is a failed audience test. And in almost every case the failure happened in the opening seconds.
This is actually how I started digging into all of this. I was using a free Chrome extension to track my reel analytics and kept noticing the same drop off patterns across my content. Stumbled on it randomly but it made the problem impossible to ignore once I could actually see the numbers clearly.
The hooks that consistently pass the test
The cost reveal. "I was spending 200 a month on X until I found this." Creates instant relevance for anyone who recognises the problem.
The mistake callout. "Stop doing X if you want Y." Creates immediate tension. The viewer wants to know if they are guilty.
The result first. "I did X for 30 days and here is what actually happened." The outcome is stated upfront and curiosity fills the rest.
The curiosity gap. "The reason most people fail at X is not what you think." Works in basically every niche because it implies the viewer is missing something.
The hooks that consistently fail
"Hey guys today I want to talk about..." "If you are someone who does X this one is for you..." "Let me show you how to..."
These fail because they make zero promise to the viewer. Nothing in those openings tells a stranger what they are about to get or why it is worth their next 30 seconds. No promise means no reason to stay. No reason to stay means the retention drops and the test ends.
What to do this week
Pull up your last 10 reels and watch only the first two seconds of each. Ask yourself one question. Would a complete stranger know exactly what they are about to get and why it is worth watching.
If the answer is no, rewrite the opening using one of the four structures above. You do not need to reshoot the whole reel. Just the first two seconds spliced in can change how the algorithm grades the test entirely.
Fix the first two seconds. Everything else gets a chance after that.
Drop your niche below and I will give you specific hook examples already working in your space right now.