Instagram is killing my start up
4 by OriolRoda | 1 comments on Hacker News.
1 month ago our business was sound. We had an Instagram with over 37.000 people that was driving over 100.000USD/y revenues to our website. Then we used a program to analyze our followers (https://ift.tt/3t4VpyB). Before using this service we checked reviews and all looked good. Our surprise was that after using this service Instagram blocked our account arguing that we were a bot. We contacted them and followed their procedure to demonstrate we are human beings, nobody answered. We tried for over a month, and finally they told us our account had been permanently deleted. Instagram cancelled our account because they thought we were a bot, but paradoxically we could never talk with a human from their side to explain the situation. End result: we have lost our main sales channel from one day to the other. This is the power of the big guys.