Confessions of an Instagram Influencer

Post by vincnetas » Fri, Dec 02, 2016, 11:56 AM UTC

Angostura wrote: post #38

celticninja wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I brush my teeth so that they last longer and I can chew food longer and thus stay alive longer, marketing only comes into it for people in marketing.

Which toothpaste do you use? And how did you come to choose that brand?

Post by throwanem » Fri, Dec 02, 2016, 12:02 PM UTC

mrtksn wrote: post #32

thinkloop wrote: post #8

I would have liked to see him continue the test without the photography, keeping just the bots and offshore friend farming - I have a feeling that's most of it. TL;DR: How to get Instagram followers: - photo quality is very important, pay for a professional - submit 3 posts a day, try to make them interesting, but that's only medium important - pay for bot to like and comment on posts with similar hash tags, so their…

I wonder what will happen when AI is good enough to imitate real internet users and ad agencies just spin up some servers in some datacenter that handles millions of bots that are indistinguishable from real people and follow the formula of the influencers.

Post by peteretep » Fri, Dec 02, 2016, 12:08 PM UTC

SuperPaintMan wrote: post #51

thinkloop wrote: post #8

I would have liked to see him continue the test without the photography, keeping just the bots and offshore friend farming - I have a feeling that's most of it. TL;DR: How to get Instagram followers: - photo quality is very important, pay for a professional - submit 3 posts a day, try to make them interesting, but that's only medium important - pay for bot to like and comment on posts with similar hash tags, so their…

The most important is the 20hashtags/post and hiding them eight newlines to be below the fold. Bots can work, but are mostly for inflating numbers to try and game the explore page. Best to have a bot set up to follow other bots and let the hashtags funnel in organic searches. It's a lame game though. Instagram is a crap platform anything other then mindless scrolling and gaming likes. >exp: Went from 0-2k followers i…

Post by JonnieCache » Fri, Dec 02, 2016, 12:12 PM UTC

iaskwhy wrote: post #48

mozumder wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bill Hicks never figured out the meaning of life. The entire purpose of life is to market. You get up in the morning and brush your teeth so that you're more marketable than the slob that doesn't. Everything you do can be traced back to marketing. The more people understand that, the better off they will be at handling life.

The purpose is not being marketed, is having sex. You market yourself so you can have better sex. At least that's what some people say, like when they claim Zuckerberg started The Facebook so people could get easily laid. I've also had interesting conversations saying the purpose is not sex but power. We do stuff the way we do because that might get us more power. Sociology is really interesting.

Post by SuperPaintMan » Fri, Dec 02, 2016, 12:18 PM UTC

personlurking wrote: post #50

cyberferret wrote: post #5

My wife and I were just talking about this today, coincidentally. She follows a few people around the world who are artists or collectors on IG. She pointed out to me that when she started following some of them more than a year ago, they had a few hundred followers, and were posting general stuff, but which all felt heartfelt and 'in the moment'. I think 'genuine' was the word my wife used. Kids doing silly things.…

For anyone not familiar with French philosopher Jean Baudrillard, I recommend reading up on his ideas around 'posed reality', as it were. ____ "Simulacra are copies that depict things that either had no original to begin with, or that no longer have an original. Baudrillard believed that society has become so saturated with these simulacra and our lives so saturated with the constructs of society that all meaning was…