#instagram2018

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Shay Mitchell via instagram

July 2018

By Bruno Lima

[viktorsvoboda]

24. CHOP

[multimedianugger-blog]

Instagram changed it’s algorithm

In past few weeks I’ve noticed that my posts on instagram had less likes, comments or views. I got a bit worried because even my worst photos were having more likes, more everything. I googled to see what is a problem and at first few links couldn’t find solution. After few articles that I’ve read I realized instagram changed it’s algorithm. 

In past year I’ve been sticking to one process of uploading photos. First I would download the photo from my google drive (I edit all my photos on computer). After looking at the photo I would come up with some caption or even a story how it was made, while thinking about name all sort of hashtaghs would come to my mind so I would write them down in my notes. I now have hashtags for each photography genre (I only adjust them to fit the photo). I would upload photo to instagram, add the caption, location, tag feature accounts. I would put hashtags in the comment section because I wanted my feed and my posts to look neat. Or I would put dots in each line so people have to click ‘see more’ to see the actual hashtags. And everything worked fine until 2018. First change is that you can’t put hashtags in comments, they won’t work. You have to have unique hashtags, if you use same hashtags all the time instagram will address you as a bot/spammer (and they have to be inside caption). Also, if your photo didn’t recieve enough likes in first few minutes after uploading, it won’t be shown to the rest of the followers (on their feed). It’s like instagram is filtering out the bad photos and only wants people to see your best work (which is not good in my opinion because I think likes don’t prove if a photo is high quality content). Short comments like: “Beautiful photo” etc. are marked as bots. If you want your comment to be valid it has to have more than five words. Something in the comment section also changed; the reply system...You can only reply to your comments within 60 minutes (starting from when that person commented). And knowing that stuff really made me happy because now I know what the problem was. But it also made me angry because If I didn’t notice it earlier. I hope this helps to anyone with similar problems. 

Photo from Pixabay; User:  USA-Reiseblogger

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Shay Mitchell via instagram

By Flannery Underwood

October 2018, New York.

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Shay Mitchell via instagram

By Flannery Underwood

October 2018

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Shay Mitchell via instagram

Travel New York, by Flannery Underwood

October 2018

[parissource]

[alyxdream-blog]

Here’s Instagram’s top nine posts vs. my personal nine favorite artworks I’ve done in 2018. - I was surprised to see some of my older works that I did at the beginning of the year when I just started to take my art more seriously. - All of this year I’ve been trying to find my way into being an artist. I’ve done a lot of experimenting with art styles, mediums, and ways to share my art to the world. - It has been a rough year for me because I’ve decided I want to be a full time artist; however, this journey turned out to be way more difficult that I ever thought. - I am not able to support myself from my art, I still have a very small following, and I don’t have a definite plan of action. But I do know I am so incredibly grateful for those of you that did follow my work and I can see it slowly growing, and that makes me want to keep pushing through. - In 2019, I want to give my all into growing as an artist and sharing my passion to as many people as I can. I want to show more of the process of building an art career, what I’ve gone through, and things that I’ve learned. Hopefully this will be helpful for artists just starting out and make there journey a little bit easier ☺️ . . . #top92018 #topnineof2018 #2018bestnineinstagram #instagram2018 (at Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsEOfqEF4a6/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=6g5fp50qbmyz