FollowMeter for Instagram

This app used to work great MOST of the time. Sometimes I had to logout and back in for it to work, but it would at least work. Not perfect, but I loved it. Referred MANY people to this app. Last many months, it would cause Instagram to tell me there was suspicious activity on my account and get stuck and some low percentage of fetching data. Despite this, if I tried and tried, toggled tried internet connections, sometimes it would surprisingly work. Phew. But lately that frequency of working was so poor that it would leave me absolutely frustrated or even have the Instagram captcha to do two-factor stop working for 12-24 hours. I still continued using it anyway. Today, I finally got a restriction on my Instagram account for two days. That'll be the end of my ride for years of my use of this app unless developers show care about their userbase enough to pull the app until it is resolved before everyone is restricted or loses their accounts. Also, why would you want to cause your users to get restrictions AND still offer to charge for your premium services when they clearly aren't working currently? I know Instagram's security conflicts are out of these developers' control, but ethical and do the right thing please. Test solutions, rerelease it when you resolve the issues. I'll be back to remove this review if you ever do.

So I was excited to try this out for tracking activity on my account and yes curiosity on who’s lurking about. I’d say the app worked properly for maybe a week before I ran into problems. Like other reviewers when I’d try to log in (and it started making me have to log in every single time I wanted to use the app) it began to say either “suspicious phishing activity” or “too many refresh requests from Instagram at one time try again later”-it would say this despite me opening the app for the first time that day. To make it worse, EVERY time I’d log in to this app, it would log me out of my actual account on instagram. If that’s how the app is designed to work than that’s very inconvenient. I would log back in on the actual app then if I can back to Instagram later in the day, not using follow meter between Instagram uses, I’d be logged out again! (I’d say if I decided to use Followmeter, I would subsequently be logged out of Instagram itself around 4 times that day) Just today I opened my instagram account to see a notification telling me “automated activity has been sensed on this account and will be suspended soon of activity persists” which is why I decided despite PAYING a yearly subscription, I’m deleting the app, waste of my money :/

I think this is a cool app. If you’re in a stalkerish mood you can see all of your secret admirers and stuff and unfollow people who haven’t followed you back if you’re feeling more petty. But I think that it’s preeeetty stupid that you have to PAY to see your secret admirers, ghost followers, etc. also, if you’re really sensitive just don’t get this app. It basically tells you how popular you are and if you can’t handle the truth then I suggest you stay away. I’m okay with the percentage that it gave me, (since I already knew I wasn’t that popular lol), but for those of you who don’t have thick skin; don’t let this app define you. It’s not a huge deal if you’re not that popular according to the app’s standards. I just got this because I wanted to see what it was like. Overall, I think it’s great. But not for those who don’t know how to take criticism.