How do we define the different audience types?
Mass followers are accounts with...
- less than 4000 followers
- more than 1500 profiles that they are following
--> these accounts try to increase their own number of followers by following a big number of other Instagram accounts.
Suspicious accounts are...
- bought via certain services in order to increase the number of for likes, comments and followers
--> In most cases, these accounts are bots.
Influencers
- Instagram Accounts with more than 4000 followers.
Real People
- Instagram accounts which are genuine i.e. have a profile picture
- the ratio between followers and following is adequate
- the number of posts is adequate etc.