How Does Follower Check Work in an Instagram Giveaway?

What Is Follower Check?

Follower check queries one by one whether the winner follows the accounts on the Must Following Accounts list. You fill in the Must Following Accounts list while setting the rules of the giveaway.

Every comment on your post is retrieved and the winner is picked among the entrants according to the rules you set. To check whether the winner follows the accounts you set, you can press the Check button on the winner's card.

How Are Accounts To Follow Added?

The Must Following Accounts field is in the Advanced Rules section of the rules step while you create the giveaway. It can also be changed from the Advanced Rules window on the result page after the giveaway is concluded.

• Write the username: When you type the username and press Enter, the account is added to the list. You can specify more than one account.
• Get following accounts: The accounts followed by the account you select are added to the list in bulk.

If you run the giveaway with more than one account you can add all of them to the list.

How Is the Follower Check Read?

When the check ends, the Results heading opens on the winner's card and every account on the list is marked one by one.

• Green check: The winner follows that account.
• Red cross: The winner does not follow that account.
• Question mark: The follow status could not be read, the Please check manually warning appears on the row.

A row that could not be read does not make the winner invalid. You can open the account on Instagram and look at the follow status yourself.

What Else Can Be Checked Besides Follower Check?

You can also run other checks such as "is there a profile picture", "is there a name" and "is the biography filled in".

• Must Have Profile Picture: It looks at whether the winner has a profile picture.
• Must Have Name: It looks at whether the winner's profile has a name.
• Must Have Biography: It looks at whether the winner's profile has a biography.
• Minimum Posts Count: If the winner's post count is below the number you set, it is marked red.
• Minimum Followers Count: If the winner's follower count is below the number you set, it is marked red.

Follower check works in Instagram and X (Twitter) giveaways. In TikTok giveaways follower check is not done, only the profile picture check runs.

What Happens if the Winner Is Not Following?

The winner does not change on its own. If a red or unread row comes out of the check, the Repick button appears on the winner's card.

You make the decision. You mark the winner as Valid or Invalid, and if needed you can pick a new winner instead. Simpliers does not change the winner on your behalf.

• Repick: A new winner is picked at random from the entrant list instead of the winner. This button is available on paid plans.
• Check again: When the winner changes the previous check result is deleted, you run the check again for the new winner.
• Valid and Invalid: You mark the winner by hand, the mark is visible to everyone on the winner's card. When you mark Invalid the Repick button appears.

The follow requirement also needs to be written on the giveaway post, how the rules are written is in the giveaway rules guide.

Common Mistakes

Most of the confusion about follower check comes from not knowing when the check runs.

• Expecting entrants to be eliminated: Follower check does not run while the comments are being retrieved, you can check whether that person follows after the winner is picked.
• Counting an unread row as invalid: A question mark does not mean not following, you check that row by hand.
• Forgetting the check when the winner changes: After Repick the old result is deleted, you run the check again for the new winner.