Dropped $150 on a scheduler app and it tanked my reach for 2 weeks

I bought Later to schedule my instagram posts last month cause everyone said it saves time. Set up a whole month of content in one night and then Insta flagged me as a bot. My engagement dropped by like 40% and I had to beg support to fix it. Anyone else get punished just for trying to be organized?

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hannahk194d ago

@daniel_walker makes a good point honestly. Loading up a whole month in one session is basically asking Instagram to look twice at your account. The app might not be the problem here, it's more about how you used it. $150 is rough though, but I've seen people get shadowbanned for way less than that. Posting 5 at once versus spacing them out over a few days probably triggered the flag. Probably could have tested it with like 3 posts first to see how the system reacted before going all in.

daniel_walker4d ago

Did you try scheduling way too much at once? Insta definitely punishes that sort of thing.