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One of the best ways to grow your Instagram followers is to target your competitors Instagram followers. Whether your are business, freelancer, contractor or individual with a hobby, your competition is the best places to start looking for your target audience.

Identify your competition

Let’s say your are a professional landscape photographer wanting to grow your followers, finding someone who is also a professional photographer with a big audience and targeting those followers by likes and comments can get them to view your profile and convert it to a follow.

Similarly if you are a boutique owner, you can find some competing boutiques in the town and target their followers.

You can view any public Instagram users followers on Instagram app and click to view their info and posts, you can view the key metrics like follower count, following count, bio details and decide wether to engage or not.

When doing this on larger scale for multiple competitors followers, it may not be efficient to do on the phone app. You can download list of followers with all the details to a spreadsheet by using Picodash export tool.

Download Instagram Followers to Spreadsheet

Picodash allows you to download any public Instagram user’s followers to a spreadsheet, the exported users will have follower/following counts. This can be used to filter out a smaller audience to target, lower the number of follower, there is more chance that they will notice your like or comment. Someone with hundreds of thousands followers may not notice your like/comment. Having all the users and details in a spreadsheet will allow you to filter and find the right users to target.

Whether it’s a restaurant, coffee shop, bar or boutique you own or you manage social media marketing for, Instagram is the platform where your potential customers are sharing most content about you and providing free and most effective marketing for the business. Instagram users are constantly sharing posts and tagging local businesses on Instagram. This provides free marketing for the business by reaching to all of their followers.

Finding the potential customers for your business

One of the easy way to find potential customers for your local business is to find the local competitions target audience and engage with them to indirectly benefit your local business.

Lets say you own a coffee shop in a local neighborhood, Instagram allows you to search for other similar coffee shops and view the Instagram posts tagged to that location. These users can become your target audience that you can engage and grow your Instagram presence.

Engage with target audience

You can do this for free by engaging with Instagram users who have posted at your competition’s business, by using Instagram app. Search for similar local businesses on Google Maps, and then search for those locations on Instagram App, like or comment on users who have posted at that location. To do this type of targeting at scale you can use services from Picodash. Picodash focuses on providing tools and services to do data-driven marketing for Instagram. 

Exporting the target audience to spreadsheet

Picodash will allow you to easily get list of users and post details in a spreadsheet for all the Instagram location you want to target. This will make is easier to analyze and filter out the users you want to engage with, rather than trying to do this on phone screen. The spreadsheet data will include number of likes and comments received and also the post captions. 

Engage and Grow

Once you have the list of target audience you can start filtering the spreadsheet to find the right list of users you want to engage by either liking, following or commenting on their posts.

Picodash allows you to export Instagram Comments and Likes to a spreadsheet for easy analysis. 

Export Instagram Likes and Comments

Select Comments or Likes

Enter the Instagram Post URL

Make one time payment and request

You will receive an email with exported spreadsheet within a day.

The exported likes spreadsheet will have the following data columns:

user_id

username

full_name

is_private

is_verified

profile_pic_url

profile_url

The Exported comments spreadsheet have the following data columns:

comment_id

comment_text

date

user_id

username

full_name

is_private

is_verified

profile_pic_url

profile_url

Picodash PRO Plan is now available for more advanced social media search and management.

The four big features in Picodash PRO are:

Twitter Photo and Video search

Instagram User Analytics and Timeline Stats

Search and Curate posts

Save searches and customer accounts

Watch the Demo Video of Picodash PRO features:

Twitter Search and Explore

Useful for journalist to find realtime breaking news photo content posted on Twitter since most users prefer posting breaking news content on Twitter over Instagram. [DEMO VIDEO]

Analytics and Timeline Stats for Instagram Users

Allows you to instantly analyze any Instagram user and get analytics like most used hashtags, most tagged users, year over year likes per posts, timeline of countries visited and dates, top liked and commented posts and more. Useful for Brands and marketing Agencies to get analytics and growth performance timeline stats for any Instagram Profile. Useful for analyzing performance metrics for client accounts and competition. [DEMO VIDEO]

Curate Search Results and Build Collection

Allows you to search for posts and add all interesting posts to a collection for analyzing later or exporting content or for research purpose. Useful for Media companies and Journalists to search and curate Instagram and Twitter posts. [DEMO VIDEO]

Manage and Monitor Customer Attributes

Picodash now supports viewing and downloading individual Instagram carousel images.

Picodash can visualize heatmap of Instagram #hashtags in real-time, you can quickly analyze which part of the world a specific #hashtag is most active. The heatmap will update as and when more posts are loaded and you can see the heatmap shift as more posts are loaded.

Picodash will help you to quickly visualize location activity of Instagram User’s Posts by using the heat map option on the map.

If a user has location tagged posts then Picodash shows clustered markers on map for Instagram posts, this will show the exact location of the post and counts by region on map.

With heatmap option, you will be able to easily visualize the regions of high activity of an Instagram user. Below is an example of heatmap visualization of Instagram User:

The heatmap above shows Instagram activity of a user. Turning off the heatmap option will show the markers on map where the Instagram post was geo-tagged:

Picodash allows you to export Instagram photos’ metadata to spreadsheet (csv file). The option to download this data is available for all feeds - user profile, hashtag search, location search or places search. With one click you can export all metadata from photos displayed on screen to a spreadsheet.

Download sample exported csv file: Download

When viewing any photo feed on Picodash, there is an option in the user menu in the top bar to “Export Data”, clicking this option will allow you to save the Insatgram post metadata to a csv file which can be opened using Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets. 

The “Export Data” option will only appear in the menu if there are any posts loaded on the screen. This option will download data of all posts displayed on screen to spreadsheet. You can scroll and load as many posts as you need and then export the data to spreadsheet. (NOTE: the browser may become unstable if 1000s of photos are loaded. It is best to export 1000 at a time. The count of photos loaded on screen is shown in the bottom-right corner, clicking on the right-arrow next to counter will open new browser tab and continue loading, this way you can load around 1000 posts at a time and export.)

What Instagram photo metadata can you download ?

You will be able to download all metadata including photo URLs at different sizes, date, location information, user info, hashtags and more.

The downloaded spreadsheet will have the following data for each Instagram post:

URL

Date

Date-GMT

Likes

Comments

Caption

Hashtags

Location ID

Location Name

lat

lng

Original Photo

Standard Resolution Photo (640)

Low Resolution Photo (320)

Thumbnail Photo (150)

username

Full Name

User ID

Profile Picture 

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Picodash allows you to export and download your Follower or Following list of users to spreadsheet (csv file). You can then open the spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets to analyze or process it as you wish.

Download sample exported csv file: Download

To export the followers list, go to your profile view by clicking on “My Posts” on the top bar, then click on the “Followers” or “Following” link in the profile, this will start loading the users on the page. At the bottom of the page there is a button to export and download the displayed users. Clicking on the download button will give you the option to save the spreadsheet.

How many users can you export?

Note that this will only download the users displayed on screen, what is displayed may not be all your followers, to download all the followers, you have first load all the followers by scrolling and selecting the option to LOAD MORE. Once all the users have been loaded, you can download the spreadsheet. The count of users loaded on screen can be seen in the bottom-right corner of screen. This method of exporting followers is only ideal or practical if you have a few 100 to 1000 followers, not really for downloading 10,000 to million followers. Instagram only gives 50 users at a time to you will have first load 50 at a time and then download as necessary.

Other limitations:

Also note that by default this method only exports username, full name, user ID and link to user profile picture. If you want more details of followers, there is an option currently to load the followers in list mode by click on the “☰” icon. This will load the follower list in list-view and there will be a option to “get details”. Clicking on get details will get more information like their total posts, followers, bio information and more (like in the image below). If you decide to “get details” for any user, then data is also exported in the spreadsheet. Again getting detailed date and exporting is not practical for hundreds or thousands of users. Again this is a limitation from Instagram and there is not easy or cost effective way to get detailed follower data with one click. 

Download sample exported csv (with full details for a user): Download

You can only view or download your following/follower list on picodash, Instagram no longer allows third-party apps to view other user’s follower list. This is only possible using Instagram app or instagram.com.

Request Export and get notified

To download 10,000 to millions of followers of any user, you can request export and you will be emailed when export is complete. Exporting can take up to 24 hours to be ready and will cost extra based on amount of followers you are exporting. You can request export with one click here: https://www.picodash.com/export-instagram-data

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Picodash is now mobile optimized and has geo-location detection to get your current location and find Instagram posts or places near you.

You can now use your mobile phone to access picodash to find Instagram posts or places near you as you move around.

Clicking on the geo-location icon will ask your permission to use your current location, once approved picodash will find and display content near your location:

This option for geo-location detection is available in Location Search and Places Search.

Location Search

Using “My Location” button will detect your device’s current location and will display posts around you and within 5000m radius. You can further filter the results by selecting a smaller radius and any date/time range for the posts.

Search Places

Using “My Location” button in places search will detect your location and will display the places like restaurants/parks/businesses around you, which you can select and explore Instagram photos/videos posted at that location.

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Instagram User Stats now available on Picodash for any user. The stats are available once you load all posts for a user.

Below is example of stats for @starbucks 

The stats will show the very first Instagram post, the latest Instagram post, number of days on Instagram and total count.

The stats will also show details numbers of total photos and videos, followers, total likes and comments, hashtags count, user tags and location tag counts.

Next the stats will show the top 5 most liked posts and top 5 most comments posts

And lastly top 5 hashtags used, top 5 locations tagged and top 5 user tagged

Picodash is now mobile optimized, you can access all the picodash feature on your phone or tablet.

You can do all the search, date/time filter, map search and commenting right from your phone on the go.

Try https://www.picodash.com on your iPhone or Android device

Picodash now allows you to search for keywords, hashtags or user mentions in Instagram comments. When you click on a photo or video you can view the comments and a search bar appears at the top, you can start typing any keyword, hashtag or username and the comments get filtered.

Instagram currently only allows you to view the latest 120 comments for any post. You can also search for users who have like a photo or video, you can click on the likes count and load the liked users and a search bar appears on top, you can type any username and the list gets filtered.

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Picodash now makes it very easy to translate Instagram caption or comments to any language. Brands can easily translate their customer’s Instagram comments or captions to any language to easily engage and interact with them.

Every post viewed on picodash will have a “translate” link, which will open a google translate link and translate the caption/comment to english by default, you can change the translation to any language supported by google.

Clicking on “translate” will take you to Google translate tool:

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Although Instagram has mainly been known and used as a mobile app, it now has an updated web platform available, too. Why should users make the switch to using Instagram via the web?

Despite the fact that you can’t upload or edit photos on the web platform, there are benefits to making the leap.

Easier for marketers.

Digital marketers spend countless hours tracking conversations related to their brand online, responding to complaints and engaging with customers. On a mobile app, it can become difficult to keep track of every message, especially if you have to keep a record of the conversations that occur. Besides taking a screenshot and emailing it to yourself, there aren’t really other options.

Responding to comments and messages through a computer is much easier for busy marketers who don’t have time to stop and log-in to a mobile app throughout the day. Plus, taking a screenshot and recording any customer complaints or issues is much more efficient through the web platform than the mobile app.

Now that Instagram has added its notification feature to the web platform, marketers can also change the settings of their account so they are alerted on their desktop when a new notification comes through. This means they can respond quickly to customers and improve customer service and satisfaction by using the web platform.

Photos.

Whether you use Instagram for business or pleasure, there has probably been a time where you have wanted to save a photo that caught your eye. It could have been a new dress from your favorite designer or a beautiful picture of the beach at sunset. Regardless of what kind of picture it was, it’s much easier to view and save through the mobile platform.

Obviously, the picture will look much bigger on a computer screen so you’re able to see more detail than you would on a mobile app. Also, you can easily save it to your computer instead of your photo album on your phone.

Click on links.

One aspect of Instagram that users have complained nonstop about over the years is the fact that you can’t click on links that are included in photo captions. Without this functionality, users are forced to type in the URL that they see in a caption directly into the web browser, a time-consuming and frustrating task.

However, it becomes much easier when you use the web platform as opposed to the mobile app. Instead of having to type in the entire URL, all you have to do is copy and paste it into a new tab or window.

Easier to sneak in time on social media.

Are you sitting at a desk all day at work? If you decide to whip out your phone to check your Instagram throughout the day, people around you, including your boss, may take notice and become concerned with your lack of focus. However, now you can fight the mid-afternoon slump with an Instagram break right on your computer.

This platform makes it easier to browse through your news feed in secret, since you don’t have to touch a phone to access it anymore. With this change, office workers aren’t limited to just scrolling through Facebook or Twitter when they need a little break—now they can add Instagram to the mix, too!

Instagram is continuing to add new features to its web platform on a regular basis, so it looks like this app’s web presence will only continue to grow!

Guest blog by Nick Rojas

Picodash has updated search and filtering capabilities for Instagram posts.

You can now filter Instagram feeds by:

Filter by keyword, #hashtags, tagged users or tagged places

Filter by date/time range

Filter by like count or sort by likes

Filter by location on map

Filter by Keyword

You can filter any Instagram feed by keyword. Open any user profile, hashtag, places, likes or geo-location feed, load some photos and you can filter by any keyword, just start typing in any word and it will automatically start filtering the posts by keywords in the post’s caption and other meta data.

You can also use the hashtag, users and places buttons to get the list and filter the loaded posts with #hashtags, tagged users and tagged places. Clicking on the buttons will show a list of hashtags, users or places in the posts loaded on screen.

Filter by date/time

You can user the date/time filter to set a date range for the Instagram posts. The feeds load posts in reverse chronological order, latest photo first and back to old photos. You can set a date back to any date/time and start loading posts from that date in reverse chronological order.

The date/time filter works for user feed, places feed and geo-location feeds. It is not available for hashtag feed and your like feed.

Filter by Likes

All feeds can be filtered by like count and you can sort feed starting with most number of likes. The like filter works on the posts loaded on screen, you will have to load a bunch of posts by scrolling and then apply the filter.

The like sort can be activated by clicking “LIKES” button, this will sort all the posts starting with the most likes. To go back to the original time sort, click on the “LIKES” button again

The filter by like count is useful if you want to see only the posts which have more that a certain number of likes, just input the like count and the loaded posts are filtered according to it. You can also click on the “>” symbol to change it “<”, this will filter posts with likes less than the value entered.

Filter on Map

Map filter is activated by clicking on the “MAP” button, this will show the map visualization of all the posts that are geo-tagged. The map markers are clustered and a count is shown, you can click on it to zoom in and find the actual location on map.

You can click on individual marker on map to reveal the location and see the posts from that location, you can easily jump the places feed for that location.

Filter by type

You filter the feeds to show only Photos or only Videos. Press “p” to show only Photos, press “v” to show videos only and “a” to show all posts.

Watch the DEMO Video:

Filter by likes, type, keywords and map will filter the posts that are loaded on the screen, for example like sort will not sort all of user’s posts automatically, it will only sort the user posts that are loaded on screen. If you want to sort all of user’s posts then you have to first load all the posts by scrolling down and then press the sort likes button. All these filters work for all feeds - user profile, hashtags, places feed, geo-location feed and your liked posts.

Picodash now allows you to filter any feed by tagged users in posts. With this feature you can open a user feed and find out which users they are tagging. 

Watch the demo video below to see how tagged user filter can be used:

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