When you publish on Instagram, the algorithm shows your post to ~5-10% of your followers first.

If that tiny sample engages fast → more distribution.

If they don't → post is buried. Forever.
An account with 500 followers gets a sample of 25 people.

An account with 100K followers gets 5,000.

Same engagement rate. Completely different outcomes.

That's the cold start problem.

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