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Recommendations have a system card of their own: ten predictions and thirty-one signals. One prediction is computed by a language model — that is what the document says. Plus windows from 12 hours to 84 days.

The platform calls borders, watermarks and crediting the author immaterial edits. Instead of percentages it offers a test in one phrase, and it counts the return to recommendations over 30 days.

At the start it's eligibility for recommendations and your angle that decide, not the number of videos. We break down what switches recommendations off entirely, how an angle differs from a topic, and which numbers to look at in the first weeks.

Paid subscriptions require a professional account with 10,000 followers and an age of 18 and over, and the availability list consists of 48 countries, with no CIS country among them. Plus withdrawal thresholds and payout dates.

The help centre describes the channel notification only for the first message. We go through how people get into a channel, what outsiders can see and why the launch happens once.

Instagram's help centre sets a limit of five hashtags per post, and across six prediction lists from Meta's system cards hashtags don't appear once. We go through what they actually do.

Stories have no recommendations: they are gathered only from accounts you follow. Three places where reach is lost, five metrics, and a way to build the frame-by-frame drop-off curve by hand.

How to tell a real reach drop from normal fluctuation using Instagram's own stats, what the “Account status” section shows, and three reactions that make things worse.