How Do Some People Get a Lot of Followers on Instagram?

**Other than celebs (small scale or A-list) and insanely hot girls that is.
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I know of guys who have over a thousand Instagram followers, get tons of likes on their photos, and seem to have an overall appealing account on there. It isn't like they are purchasing phony followers from some app either, a lot of the people who like their pics, comment on them, and follow them seem to be people who know them.

So I guess the other way to ask this question is, how are some people able to meet so many people and manage to get them to follow them on social media such as Instagram?

I understand LinkedIn since it is more professional but I was wondering about Instagram since it is more a casual social app as opposed to a professional networking one.

why do some people get so many likes on Instagram?

Our users shared that there are really several ways to get a large amount of followers - during college, buying followers, or by diligent posting.

"Tackytech"Many users will buy them. The usual strategy is something like this:

Make some generic [funny/inspirational/niche/whatever] profile, and post pictures multiple times a day. This is usually done by scraping relevant images off the web, and setting up some bot to do the posting. Do this for various genres. If they're related (for example "entrepreneurship" and "lifestyle") you can link to your other profiles.

Then just keep at it like that for a year or two. Sooner or later you'll probably have a decent following, probably lots of bots too. Then you simply sell it to some models for a nice sum, like 10-15 grand.

Btw, if you ever see some IG Hoe write "New profile, old got hacked", chances are the people they bought said profile from, simply reclaimed it back.

I've done some research into this, and I'm pretty sure that's how they operate. There seems to be a ton of generic looking models, usually from eastern Europe, that magically appear with 1-2MM followers.

Another user shared that you can post consistently with things that people may actually want to see.

"MonopolyMoney - Real Estate Broker"Relevant hashtags, pics of girls in tiny bikinis, pictures of stuff people are actually interested in seeing etc. Takes time but you can build it up. One of my friends and I made a comedy page a few weeks ago, and a post I made like 4-5 hours ago got over 500 views so far.

Finally, you can simply have a lot of casual friends and acquaintances and follow them all on Instagram.

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Many users will buy them. The usual strategy is something like this:

Make some generic [funny/inspirational/niche/whatever] profile, and post pictures multiple times a day. This is usually done by scraping relevant images off the web, and setting up some bot to do the posting. Do this for various genres. If they're related (for example "entrepreneurship" and "lifestyle") you can link to your other profiles.

Then just keep at it like that for a year or two. Sooner or later you'll probably have a decent following, probably lots of bots too. Then you simply sell it to some models for a nice sum, like 10-15 grand.

Btw, if you ever see some IG Hoe write "New profile, old got hacked", chances are the people they bought said profile from, simply reclaimed it back.

I've done some research into this, and I'm pretty sure that's how they operate. There seems to be a ton of generic looking models, usually from eastern Europe, that magically appear with 1-2MM followers.

 

I see where you guys are coming from when you say usually people buy them but it seems like some people have a genuine IG following of those in their area who they might even know in real life, real accounts that actually like their photos and seem to genuinely know them.

How do they do this?

 

By knowing a lot of people and being perceived as cool enough to be worth following.

I'm talking about liquid. Rich enough to have your own jet. Rich enough not to waste time. Fifty, a hundred million dollars, buddy. A player. Or nothing. See my Blog & AMA
 

Why do you give a shit? None of these people are worth following or have anything valuable contributions to the world. Their primary "talent" is having Instagram followers. I'd slit my wrists if that was the only skill I'd managed to obtain in life.

"When you stop striving for perfection, you might as well be dead."
 
"Postgradwonderer" How do some people manage to get so many Instagram followers?

Answer: Who. Cares.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Come on guys, no need to get angry about this sort of thing, some of us just want a lot of followers, some of us don't, this thread is asked for those who do or might.

 

You can contact fiverr . com / smmbizco You will get all your answers and with no hesitation you can grow your followers.

 

personally I think that most of these accounts use the auto follower bot for Instagram. I myself use it, it helps very quickly to get a large number of followers and it's very cool! :) there are a lot of such applications, most of all I like bigbangram. I hope someone will be interested :)

 

I follow this atomically hot Bolivian model with 18,000 followers. The only difference between her and a chick with 1-4 million followers is that she doesn't pose naked or in thongs and/or she doesn't have a porn video. So if you're a hot chick and want millions of followers then make your instagram/facebook/twitter all about your ass. It's kind of pathetic.

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The popular guys/girls with thousands of followers probably don't have that many followers in real life. I think the life you portray on social media is inversely correlated with your real life. Think back to when you were really having an amazing moment with a significant other or friends or on vacation; was your first thought "let me take a snap of this"? No, because when you're busy living social media is actually the last thing you think about.

 

One huge one is people who have built large followings tapping their base for instagram. There was a story that Kevin Hart used to go around doing talks and he would get people's emails. After a few years, he had an absolutely enormous email list. I am sure he used that to grow his following on insta.

Also the level of bots on instagram is probably insane and everyone is at it. I recently read something about a marketing guy in the music industry that said it was impossible to go anywhere in the industry without upvote bots. Once people start to do it, everyone does it to survive.

 

Unless you're a woman, you shouldn't worry about social media popularity.

In fact, I'm enrolled in a service (where I pay them) to remove any trace of my information across the internet.

Discretion = key to success.

 

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If you pay for boosting views, it is more expedient to buy and boost likes right away, so that the publication looks as natural as possible. This service is relevant for novice bloggers and accounts seeking to develop a page from scratch in a short period of time. Get Instant Twitch Followers is easy. You just need to contact a special service, where you will be consulted

I'm sure after almost 3 years OP is overjoyed to finally have an answer to this important question. 

 

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That's right, thank you for sharing this way.

 

There are various avenues to increase followers

- some people connect their dating profiles and other social media towards each other. So if a girl likes your profile, chances are higher she may give you a follow. the more accounts are cross-linked, the better

- hobbies: gym, car clubs, sports groups, your college network, your family members, etc / the more people you already know and add, the more visibility and reach for you. This drives organic growth.

- shoutouts on IG itself; find other users with a similar profile/interests/follower demographic and do S4S. drives followers quickly

- legacy/older accounts tend to have more followers

- post frequently with the right keywords

- be hot. attractive guys naturally draw more attention. sex sells. especially on social media.

 

No matter how great the photos in the profile are, without proper promotion of Instagram and attracting the attention of followers, they will not gather a large number of likes, and the account will not get new followers.

 

Getting a lot of Instagram followers is not an easy task for a novice blogger. To solve it you will help soclikes , here you can buy followers in Instagram quite inexpensively and get a chance to promote in social networks. You can buy the necessary number of followers without registration and other unnecessary efforts.

 

Not all promotion methods are equally good for different types of accounts. First of all, you need to define the goal - why should your profile become popular at any cost: are you an artist and want fame, do you sell lawn mowers and want to increase the flow of customers from social networks, are you a masseur, a visagist, a tutor or a coach and are looking for customers? You can ask for help from Since the most important contact with subscribers is through the profile, make sure that the information in the header is succinct and clear, and that the design is beautiful and appropriate to the topic.
 

 

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