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reid.zura
reid.zuraLevel 1
asked in Social Networks
A huge increase in spam on Facebook and X - any tips on how to reduce?

Okay, I hope I don’t sound crazy and this is a good place, but, over the past few weeks, I have noticed a lot of extra spam coming into the social media channels for my company. It’s mostly in two forms. On Facebook: I either get something in Messenger or a wall post from an account posing to be some sort of Meta authority figure claiming the page will be permanently deleted for violating some sort of guidelines and I can request a review by clicking their sketchy link (Obviously I know it is a scam) Here is an example: On X: I get MULTIPLE tags for these spamming crypto bots somehow. They don’t seem to end and come in a lot. They’re also tagged with a bunch of other random accounts, so I’m simply not sure how my company’s account is picked. Here is what those look like: Now obviously, social media has and always will have scammers and spam. I have a decent radar and digital literacy to know where not to click and what to ignore, but it seems like these have gotten worse -- sometimes g

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rebecca.spearsLevel 1
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Having trouble connecting Instagram account in account center

One of my employees is having trouble getting logged in to one of our Instagram pages. She keeps getting this error message: She can not find it in the Account Center. Any advice?

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emily.harrisLevel 1
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Instagram 2024 Algorithm

Instagram recently made changes to the algorithm. The one that we’re curious about is asking for engagement and downgrading reach. Does anyone know if you get downgraded for just “Comment below”, or will questions like “What is your favorite book?” or “What are you reading today?” also downgrade reach?

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boe.fordLevel 1
asked in Social Networks
Instagram Business Account Login Issues

Hi All! Looking for some help / guidance- Currently our agency manages 300+ client Instagram accounts. A crucial part of our business is posting Stories and Reels on a regular basis. However, the biggest hurdles we’re facing is trying to login to multiple IG accounts daily. The same person can't always log in to every single client account to post, plus when a new client onboards we need to login. We have always run into issues but have been able to navigate the issues. Recently, a large number of us have been blocked when trying to login to accounts we have logged into before / when we get new accounts. I'm hoping someone here has experience managing a large number of social media accounts, particularly on Instagram to see how you’ve been combatting the login issues. Any info is appreciated! :)

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michelle.polandLevel 1
asked in Social Networks
Linkedin For Parent Companies

Hi All - I have a client who is wondering what the best practices are for having/using a parent company LinkedIn when the bigger brand is part of the parent company. Does any one have any strategy resources on something like this? Which should be prioritized, are there structural recommendations to be made (should employees be employees the parent company or the bigger brand page?) Thank you!

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raven.gill
Agency Partner
raven.gill
Agency Partner
raven.gillAgency Partner
asked in Social Networks
Donor Posts on LinkedIn?

Good Morning, My agency just took on a non-profit client. I’ve been asked in donation request posts perform well on LinkedIn. This is my first time doing full service for a non-profit so I don’t have any personal experience to answer this question. I’m also not finding much feedback on this online from reliable sources. Therefore, for my peers in the non-profit industry. Have you ever made donation requests on LinkedIn and what were your results. My thought process would be to design a corporate sponsorship program with them and create a landing page with the different tiers. Then post about about this program on LinkedIn. But I don’t think posting a “Donate Today” post would perform well. I could be mistaken though.

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raven.gill
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jordandvdsn7Level 1
asked in Social Networks
Question about setting up new company FB account

Hey everyone! This is my first post through the Arb so hopefully I do this right :) My company is in the process of deleting our current Facebook account and starting a new one (long story.) Ideally, we would have each person with admin permissions set up an individual page for themselves using their “@upgrade” email address, and then that page would be the one with admin permissions (as opposed to giving admin permissions to each person’s everyday page that they already use frequently.) We mainly want to do this for cybersecurity reasons. Has anyone tried this method before? Did it work? Did you run into any problems with Facebook, getting flagged, or anything of that nature? We’ve gone the rounds with Facebook a few times over a few different issues and their support team has been less than helpful, so we want to avoid doing anything that could get our page compromised or restricted in any way since we’re not confident in Facebook’s ability to fix problems.

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Anna Laura McGranahan
Agency Partner
Anna Laura McGranahanAgency Partner
asked in Social Networks
Agency/Freelancers: Do You Have Two LinkedIn Accounts?

Hi agency & freelancer folks, curious if anyone has multiple accounts to help manage LinkedIn. I’m finding that all of my client-related notifications are going to my personal email instead of my company email. I was hoping setting up a LinkedIn Business Manager for my agency would help solve this, but it unfortunately has not. If you manage multiple clients, how do you handle LinkedIn accounts?

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corrine.dorrian
corrine.dorrianLevel 3
asked in Social Networks
Messaging Users from Business Page

Hi all, I just ran a giveaway contest on one of the business pages I manage but I can't message any of the participants. There was one only person who I could send a message to from the business page. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for your help!

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Annie DohertyLevel 1
asked in Social Networks
Meta Pixel Sharing

Our company was split into 2 different companies due to a recent acquisition. These are now company X and company Y. Both companies want to keep the meta pixel once created for the website, but now each company will have their own new and individual website and want to keep/use the same pixel. Now knowing the pixel has to remain on the business page it originated on and cannot move, what are the options here? Can company X give access to the pixel to Company Y and how will that effect data, etc?

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Gayatri Shukla
Community Manager
katie.murphy
katie.murphyLevel 2
posted in Social Networks
LinkedIn Link Previews changing

After months of beta testing, it seems LinkedIn is moving towards thumbnailing link previews. See this recent article from Social Media Today: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/linkedin-updates-link-previews-organic-posts-smaller-images/717571/ Wanted to start a conversation to see what others are doing - how they plan to adjust their strategies etc. on LinkedIn. As an organic social media manager, this is a bummer as now it seems we can’t use link previews and could draw bogus clicks (like Twitter/X!) Any insights are appreciated!

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Anna Laura McGranahan
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chris.cutillarLevel 1
asked in Social Networks
Is your Facebook pen graphs failing to pull correct thumbnail to page when published?

Is anyone else having trouble with Facebook pulling incorrect images when scheduling and sending content on to their timelines? Every time we try to post a link, without editing Title and Description of the Attached Link, and it pulls up the default thumbnail of our website and not the specified thumbnail that is associated with that page. It’s only when we change the Title and Description of the Attached Link is when it pulls in the image correctly. This has been happening since Mid-April of this year.

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Anna Laura McGranahan
Agency Partner
hilary.engel
hilary.engelLevel 3
asked in Social Networks
LinkedIn: Engagement and Visibility

Hello! Has anyone else experienced a sudden drop in engagements and impressions on LinkedIn as of late? I manage a company page and over the past two weeks our impressions have plummeted -- despite not doing anything differently in terms of frequency of our content. I know that the algorithm is changing more frequently now, but if that’s what caused this, we’ve really taken a hit. Along those lines, I continue to see that LinkedIn suppresses the visibility of content that includes links that would take a user away from LinkedIn. Is there any truth to this? I’ve been ignoring it as a possibility, but nearly all our content points back to our website, so I’m beginning to wonder. Thanks in advance!

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Emily HarperLevel 1
asked in Social Networks
HELP! - Client business IG account disabled

Hi there! Any help appreciated! I have a client that is a division of a global, well-known brand and our Instagram account has been disabled. Account of events: Updated profile image to new brand standard Monday afternoon Monday evening, I received a notification from Sprout that our IG profile had been disconnected. Went to reconnect in Sprout and was unable to. Went to the account’s IG profile on my phone and saw that it was suspended. I filled out the form to verify out account information (username, email, password, phone number attached to the account) Received a notification that our account had been reviewed and that it was now suspended due to violating IG’s community guidelines (photo attached of the reasons they gave me) Instagram did not give me another option to appeal this. I read countless blogs/articles that night and clicked every link that I thought would be helpful and every form I tried to fill out it said “the username you’re inquiring about does not exist.” and wou

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stephanie.clarkSprout Team
asked in Social Networks
Question from #TeamSprout: Best practice for connecting Instagram Business profiles without a Facebook page

Hi Arboretum Community! My name is Stephanie and I’m coming to you from Sprout’s Agency team. 👋🏻 I’m reaching out to the brain trust on behalf of one of my customers, who has a new Instagram profile to connect to Sprout that doesn’t have its own dedicated Facebook page (this Instagram profile is a division of the company and separate from the company’s main Instagram profile/Facebook page, so it sounds like there is some hesitancy to launch a new individual page). Knowing Facebook no longer supports “unlisting” Pages, is there a workaround for connecting the Instagram profile as a business to Sprout without having a public-facing Facebook Page? For example, has anyone created a Facebook page but unlisted it, per this article? Thanks in advance for any/all inputs!

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raven.gill
Agency Partner
raven.gillAgency Partner
asked in Social Networks
Recover Youtube Channel

Just took on a new client, that has a youtube channel. However, they don’t know what the gmail associated with it is, or the password. Does anyone have any access with recovering a Youtube channel? Thank you in advance.

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amandaRBLevel 1
asked in Social Networks
Instagram SEO: How to source keywords?

Any tips/tricks on how to source relevant keywords for Instagram captions to improve SEO? Where do you look to find the best words for your brands niche?

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KathlynClore
KathlynCloreLevel 1
posted in Social Networks
Instagram Stories not able to be shared inter-platform

Hi! I am trying to grow my nonprofit’s Instagram account, and recently realized our Stories are not sharable on Instagram. Our posts, however, are sharable. I’ve looked at our Stories from multiple other accounts and indeed they cannot be shared on Instagram. Several of my colleagues have asked me to fix this so they can share our company posts - which I really would love them to do! I’ve been through all our settings and everything looks good - all content is sharable, we are public, we have a business account…. Has anyone had this happen and figured out how to fix it?? I submitted a request for help via Instagram but I’m not optimistic about hearing back...

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carolinemLevel 1
asked in Social Networks
FB Event Boost Ad Glitches

Having some trouble with Meta ads this week for one of our clients FB Event pages were boosted and the ads are not displaying numbers, or allowing us to edit the audience or ad itself. The ads are not appearing in the ads manager and are only appearing in Ad Center and Meta Business Suite. Getting this error message when trying to edit and resave the ad. Is anyone else having this issue with FB Event boosting's and is there a way to fix it without restarting a whole new ad?

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rebecca.hoangLevel 1
asked in Social Networks
Facebook Cover Photos for Location Pages

Hello! I currently manage our brand (parent) Facebook page and over 260 location pages on Facebook. The Classic Pages allowed me to change the Facebook cover photo on the parent page and it would automatically change all the cover photos for the location pages. Our pages recently switched to the New Pages Experience and now the location pages don’t change when the parent cover photo is changed. I really don’t want to switch into 260+ pages to change the cover photos. Does anyone have a resolution for this? Thank you!!

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dan.levey
dan.leveyLevel 4
asked in Social Networks
Instagram Again

Hello, I know there was a Meta outage last week. Is anyone still having issues with Instagram? I manage 10 accounts, and when I toggle to 1 of the accounts, the account, the page starts flickering and the account looks incomplete. I tried logging into the account from my computer and it did not work, I tried both Chrome and Safari and nothing worked. I tried logging out of all Instagram accounts, I un-installed and re-installed the app, and I restarted my phone. None of that worked, the account is showing the same thing. I attached screenshots of what the account looks like and of what happens when I switch over. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Dan

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ashtonyoungLevel 1
posted in Social Networks
What's your strategy for posting reels with community sounds?

Hey everyone, I was hoping you all would have some tips to share for scheduling or creating reels on Facebook and Instagram with community sounds. Our client has a low following, so we have been relying on using trending sounds on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok to get engagement. Meta does not have scheduling sophisticated enough to meet our needs and posts with community sounds cannot get scheduled ahead of time through the business suite. However, uploading and posting each reel on the day we’ve planned for takes up a ton of time and we’re looking for alternative options. As of now, we’ve been creating the posts through the Facebook and Instagram mobile apps (Meta business suite does not show any of our saved sounds, so we need to post each individually) and then saving the reels as drafts and coming back on the calendar date and posting. There has to be a more efficient way, right? We bill our clients by the hour, so we’re extremely conscious of our time usage and this just simply i

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alyssa.martelli
alyssa.martelliLevel 2
asked in Social Networks
Fake "Permanent Deletion" Messages

Hello, our Facebook page has been receiving an influx of spam private messages stating our profile is “of permanent deletion. We have received a report indicating that your page violates copyright.” We keep reporting the spam to Facebook, but we keep receiving them. Has anyone else experienced this and how have you managed it?

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Anna Laura McGranahan
Agency Partner
Anna Laura McGranahanAgency Partner
posted in Social Networks
What is Nostr?

I saw a TikTok last night talking about Nostr, a “decentralized, censorship-resistant social media protocol.” It was new to me so I wondered if anyone was familiar with it! I found a CNN article from this year and Forbes from last year, it looks like it gained popularity with crypto/tech as early adopters. Do we think it’s worth looking into? Is anyone already using it?

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dan.levey
dan.leveyLevel 4
asked in Social Networks
Instagram Issues

Is anyone having issues toggling back and forth between Instagram accounts? I see that all the accounts I am running are available, but when I go to switch to another account, I am unable to switch. The only way I am able to switch is if I logout and login to the other accounts. Is anyone else having this problem? Any advice would appreciated. Thanks, Dan

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