Track the Instagram followers you gained from Growbot

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Your follower count alone doesn't tell you whether your Growbot routine works. You might gain 40 followers in a week, but how many of them did Growbot follow, like or comment on first, and how many found you on their own? Which source accounts bring people who follow back, and which only use up your daily actions?

Follower conversions answer those questions. Growbot keeps track of your new followers, matches each one against the actions it completed from your account, and shows which interactions and sources turn into followers. You can then put your daily actions where they work instead of guessing.

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Step 1: open the panel

1. Make sure you are signed in to your Growbot account. The counts are saved to your account, so they survive a browser restart and a reinstall.
2. Open the Log tab. Below the Log, click Followers gained from interactions to expand the panel. Once there is data, the collapsed line reads like This week GrowBot brought you 12 of your 30 new followers, or GrowBot interactions have brought you 13 followers so far in a week with no new followers.

Step 2: let Growbot check the followers you already have

1. About 30 seconds after you open Instagram, Growbot reads your current followers, newest first and up to 2,000 of them. This takes a few minutes, and the panel shows Checking the followers you already had for earlier GrowBot interactions with a running count while it works. The numbers fill in as it goes.
2. The Log shows Follower conversions: recorded 48 current followers as the starting point. Followers you already had who got an interaction from Growbot earlier count as gained from Growbot, and the Log shows Follower conversions: 11 follower(s) you already had got a GrowBot interaction before following. Their exact follow date is unknown, so they show Before tracking in the list and count in the totals and rates, but not in Today, This week or This month.
3. After that, Growbot checks for new followers every 15 minutes while an Instagram tab is open. Each new follower is matched against the actions Growbot completed from your Instagram account in the days before they followed.
4. When a new follower got an interaction from Growbot first, the Log shows a line such as New follower @example_user after a GrowBot interaction (Follow).

Step 3: read the numbers

• Followers gained from interactions: every new follower since tracking started who got a follow, like, comment, comment like or story view from Growbot first. The line underneath says what share of your new followers since tracking started that is, and how many of the total are followers you already had.
• Today, This week and This month: the same count for each period, next to the number of new followers you got in that period from any source.
• By interaction: for each interaction, Followers is how many converted followers got it, Last before following is how many got it as the last thing before they followed, Accounts reached is how many accounts Growbot did it to, and Conversion rate is the share of those accounts that followed you. A follower who got a follow and a like counts in both rows. Accounts reached for Comment and All interactions has a +: comments are public, so more people see them than Growbot can know. Instagram doesn't say who reads a comment, so Growbot only counts the post owners, and the real number of people reached is higher.

• By source type and By source account: the same rate, split by where Growbot found the accounts. Follower means you loaded them from someone's followers, Following from the accounts someone follows, and Liker or Commenter from the people who liked or commented on a post. Up to 25 source accounts are listed, the ones Growbot reached most first.

• Converted followers: one row per follower, with the source account Growbot found them through (Found via), each interaction and when it happened (What GrowBot did first), and when they followed you (Followed you). Click Load more to see older rows.

Conversion rates count the accounts Growbot reached in the last 90 days, including the most recent ones, so they show up as soon as the first check is done. People who were reached in the last few days may still follow you back, so when many of a row's accounts are that recent, its rate gets a ✱ and a note says it is still climbing. Hover over the ✱ to see how many accounts are that recent.

Step 4: choose where Growbot gets its tracking data

Under Settings at the bottom of the panel, Follower tracking source has four options:

• Follower list (recommended): checks your newest followers every 15 minutes. It catches every new follower, but follow times are approximate (within 15 minutes) and show with a ~ in the list.
• Notifications: reads your Instagram notifications for exact follow times. Your Instagram notifications are marked as read each time Growbot checks (an orange warning under the setting reminds you), and Instagram only keeps your latest notifications, so busy accounts can miss follows.
• Follower list and notifications: the follower list catches every new follower and notifications add exact times. Your Instagram notifications are still marked as read on each check.
• Off: Growbot stops looking for new followers, so the counts stop updating.

Unless the setting is Off, opening your Instagram notifications yourself also gives Growbot the exact follow times shown there, and replaces approximate times in the list.

Step 5: set the window

Count interactions from the last sets how long ago an interaction can be and still count: 7, 14, 30 or 60 days. The default is 30 days. A shorter window is stricter, because Growbot only gets credit when the follow came soon after the interaction. A new window applies to followers found from then on. In the conversion rates, it sets how recent an account has to be for the ✱ note.

Workflow: put your daily actions where they convert

1. Keep your usual routine for two to three weeks, loading accounts from several different source accounts, so each source gets a fair share of your daily actions.
2. Open By source account and compare the Conversion rate column. Sources with the longest bars have audiences that tend to follow you back. Load more accounts from them and from similar accounts, and stop loading from the ones that hardly convert.
3. Look at By source type the same way. If commenters on posts convert better than followers of the same accounts, load more commenters with Load Commenters in the Accounts Queue.
4. Check again after another two weeks, and only compare rows with at least a couple of hundred Accounts reached. With 20 accounts reached, one extra follower moves the rate by five points.

Tips

• A conversion means the person followed you after a Growbot interaction. It doesn't prove the interaction made them follow, and some of them would have found you anyway. The numbers are most useful for comparing sources and interactions with each other.
• Each follower counts once. If someone unfollows and follows you again later, they don't count a second time.
• Unfollows, blocks and removed followers never count as interactions. Likes and comments from Pic(s) After Follow count as a like or a comment, as well as the follow.
• Growbot only checks while an Instagram tab is open with Growbot loaded. Followers who arrived while your browser was closed are found on the next check, as long as they are among your newest followers.
• If Instagram limits the follower list check, the Log shows Follower conversions: Instagram limited the follower list check. Trying again later. and Growbot waits an hour before checking again.
• Each Instagram account has its own counts. Switch to another account on Instagram to see its numbers.
• To count conversions, Growbot saves your new followers' Instagram user IDs, usernames and follow times to your Growbot account. See Privacy: how Growbot works with your Instagram account.