Instagram grows to 1M active advertisers • Hacker News Board

Re: Instagram grows to 1M active advertisers

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Post by chatmasta » Thu, Mar 23, 2017, 11:59 AM UTC

speg wrote: post #3

Instagram has become my favourite platform. Every time I log into Facebook all I see is a wall of poor quality shared posts ranging from random truck videos to fake news. The relative quiet on Instagram, knowing I'm going to be getting only photos is serene.

My facebook feed has officially jumped the shark as of the last 6-12 months. I blame the 2016 election and Facebook IPO. At this point almost every single article in my feed is an advertisement (some overt, some not). The few posts that are actually from my friends are politically charged links they share. It seems that 80% of people do not share content on Facebook, but the 20% of people who do, share it multiple times per day. Even though I have ~1500 friends on Facebook (all personally known over the past 10 years), I see posts from the same ~25 people, most of whom I hardly ever interact with, every single day.

The only time I browse my FB newsfeed is on my phone when I've run out of any other interesting content online. I never browse it on my desktop. I do use FB messenger quite frequently.

I like Instagram and Snapchat because they are what Facebook used to be: real content created by and shared by your friends. Not links to bullshit articles. Not advertisements. Just content that your friends created for you to watch.

Re: Instagram grows to 1M active advertisers

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Post by taytus » Thu, Mar 23, 2017, 3:10 PM UTC

mittermayr wrote: post #59

taytus wrote: post #5

Full Disclosure: I'm the developer of statimgram.com I believe Instagram will continue to keep growing, and I wanted to help advertisers and users to have more tools to engage and reach their followers. Now with statimgram, you can schedule and post from the browser not only regular posts, but also directly into IG stories. We are launching next week, and I'm opening the API to developers as well, if you want early a…

Word of caution: I've been running a business like yours for two years. We've had "the talk" with Facebook's lawyers. You say the use of the word 'gram' only applies to using their API? Wrong. You will see once you grow to more than a handful of accounts. We've resolved this. Also, your method will 100% get people blocked. You say it's secret sauce, but you don't seem to take into account that most people here are te…

I appreciate the words of caution. I really do. Your service also asks for IG credentials, so I wonder how is that different than what we do.

Re: Instagram grows to 1M active advertisers

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Post by mittermayr » Thu, Mar 23, 2017, 3:26 PM UTC

taytus wrote: post #62

mittermayr wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Word of caution: I've been running a business like yours for two years. We've had "the talk" with Facebook's lawyers. You say the use of the word 'gram' only applies to using their API? Wrong. You will see once you grow to more than a handful of accounts. We've resolved this. Also, your method will 100% get people blocked. You say it's secret sauce, but you don't seem to take into account that most people here are te…

I appreciate the words of caution. I really do. Your service also asks for IG credentials, so I wonder how is that different than what we do.

Read again, it's not about the credentials as agencies do exactly the same. It's about the posting mechanism. And the 'gram'. I feel you, this is a tough place to be, there's a lot of money waiting, everyone needs a solution – but talking to the private API is not the way to go about it.