HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT INSTAGRAM SHADOWBAN AND HOW TO AVOID IT HAPPENING?
The term ‘Shadowban’ was completely unknown before 2017 until it was coined by a photographer who claimed that in certain hashtag searches, many of his images failed to appear. Further researches showed that many other photographers faced the same problem. There were some instances where different content showed up for the same hashtag search when done by different people or even by the same people but at a different time. For the general public, it was unclear that an algorithmic sort was applied to the results of hashtag search. Hence, there was nothing like a shadowban on any of the accounts using any of the hashtags. It was unfortunate enough that people started linking the term for every negative result on Instagram, be it decrease in reach or engagement or may be restrictions on accounts. An interesting point to note here is that a very important role is played by the the Instagram algorithm in this regard. Hence Shadowban again cannot be blamed here. So here is a lis...