Last week Instagram announced that it was going to crack
down hard on spammers and fake accounts. The crackdown, which began this week after the photo-sharing
service made good on its promise to start deleting millions of fake accounts,
has been dubbed the "Instagram Rapture"
after the follower counts of
apparently popular Instagrammers were savaged angering many legitimate users.
Instagram wrote in a blogpost “when we remove accounts from
Instagram that don't follow our Community Guidelines, you may see a decrease in
your follower count”
“This shouldn’t affect engagement from authentic accounts
that like and comment on your posts." the company wrote.
Rapper Akon reportedly lost 56% of his followers in the
cull. The big losers were Justin Bieber (minus 3,538,228 followers), and an
online marketing specialist called Wellington Campos, which lost 3,284,304
followers overnight.
One account, chiragchirag78, lost 99% of his followers -
3,660,460 - before he himself was deleted. Instagram's own account on the site
lost 18,880,211 followers overnight as people got furious and unfollowed Instagram.
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