[bcheung]

Also, I really wish social media platforms provided better tools and didn't have policies that penalized you for deleting followers that are bots or junk followers.

As a Las Vegas photographer that works primarily with models, I often have random profiles blasting out my work. These profiles mostly find sexy content and blast it out in hopes of growing their own profiles. This mostly resulted in my followers being 95% men from outside the US. This does absolutely nothing for increasing my engagement with my actual target audience (female models or would be models in the Las Vegas metro area wanting to book photoshoots).

Unfortunately Instagram penalizes you and has actually removed the search functionality from my follower list because I was using it to delete bots and junk followers. They won't say this officially but their support ignores my requests for why this functionality no longer works.

[nerdponx]

Bot accounts prop up their KPIs and they directly provide revenue. They have clear incentives to allow such bots and junk accounts to thrive on their platform.

[bcheung]

This makes perfect sense. If people were getting more organic business conversions they wouldn't pay for advertising as much.

[csomar]

> but their support ignores my requests for why this functionality no longer works

I laud your optimism that you think you'll be able to get an answer to this.

[burnte]

> policies that penalized you for deleting followers that are bots or junk followers

I'm totally unaware of this, can you elaborate?