There have been accounts that have lost up to 200,000 followers on Instagram
If this morning when you woke up you entered your Instagram and you saw that you were missing a few followers, you are not alone. It seems that Instagram has carried out a cleanup of fake or inactive followers and this cleanup has affected almost all users of the social network.
The removal of followers on Instagram may be due to the cleanup announced a few months ago or a bug
A few months ago we told you about the news that Instagram wanted to eliminate fake interactions. Among these interactions were “fake” likes and comments, that is, those generated by bots. At no time was anything said about followers.
But it seems that they have decided to cut their losses. By removing fake users, the interactions they had carried out would automatically be removed. In other words, the likes and comments of these accounts would automatically disappear, as Instagram itself had announced.
Instagram's statement in a tweet
This purge of fake or inactive followers, as we have already said, has affected almost all users of Instagram And it seems that the number of followers lost has been proportional to the size of the accounts. There have been small and medium-sized accounts that have lost from 100 to more than 1,000 followers and large accounts, including celebrities, that have lost up to 200,000 followers.
Although it seems that all this is related to the purge or cleaning of bots, Instagram has made a statement through TwitterIn the tweet they comment that they are aware that there is an error that causes the number of followers of many accounts to vary and that they will fix it as soon as possible.
Could this just be a Instagram mistake? It is possible, although we opt more for the cleaning of bots and false interactions that the social network has already announced. We will see how events unfold and if the missing followers return or not throughout the day/week.
