Usually, many users look for a specific way that allows them to know who visited their personal accounts or see the content they publish on Instagram, and here we mean only viewing the content without interacting with it.
For this, they install many applications that claim to obtain accurate information about who viewed the content you post or visited your account, but the truth is that Instagram does not have a clear way to allow you to do so, why?
The logical answer is to protect your privacy, because making this feature available would be the worst way to violate the privacy of the application´s users.
So, are third-party apps really delivering on what they promise?
If you do a quick search on the App Store or Google Play, you will find dozens of third-party applications that promise to know who visited your Instagram account or see your posts without interacting with them, but the truth is that most of these are The apps are fake and deceptive.
Alex Head, chief research and development officer at SecurityScoreCard, says any app that claims to do so is "fraudulent and illegal." Instead, it "probably performs a very simple operation by pulling out random usernames and creating a different list each time you open it." The application to find out who visited your personal account or read your posts. In fact, the application tracks you and actually collects your data to sell it later to data companies to target you with targeted ads.
But this does not mean that all applications are deceptive or false. According to Business Insider, one of the users´ favorite applications to get more information about their followers or non-followers is Followmeter and it is available for free on Google Play and App. Store ".
But at the same time the application does not explicitly tell you who visited your account or read your posts, and instead provides additional metrics, such as: who unfollowed you, or who followed and does not follow you, and this is the data that you can verify manually, so it is more likely that Be accurate.
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But does Instagram provide another way to find out who visited your account?
One of the legitimate ways to obtain clear and reliable information about who has visited your account or read your posts is to convert your Instagram account to a business account, or a creative or creator account.
Where you can access clear insights about your account, such as: an overview of how many accounts have viewed your content, which accounts have interacted with this content, and the number of people who have saved your individual posts, but you will not be able to see who exactly visited your account, and at least. You can get more information this way.
Instagram stories
The Instagram stories feature allows you to see who viewed your story. You can click on the icon at the bottom of your story to view a list of people who viewed it.
Although there are rumors that this list is displayed according to the order of people who interact with your content the most, as the most people who visit your account will be at the top of the list, Julian Gottman, an Instagram official, has denied this, as he stated that the list is the priority "Contrary to what was previously reported, it gives to accounts that you interact with a lot."
Finally, there is no way for you to see who visited your account or viewed your posts and did not interact with them in the Instagram application, and this is good for preserving the privacy of application users.
Source: Al Jazeera
