This week, Instagram began clamping down on fake, inactive and spam accounts by completely removing them from the service.
The company announced the plans earlier this year, and began purging the unwanted accounts just recently. A software developer Zach Allia created a list of the top 100 accounts that lost the most followers during the update using Instagram’s API. The biggest loser was chiragchirag78 who dropped from 3.6 million to just 8 followers.
The biggest celebrity loser was Akon, who lost more than 2.4 million, or just over 56 per cent, of his followers.
Bruno Mars lost 24 per cent of his followers in the purge, while rapper P.Diddy, also known as Sean Combs and on Instagram as iamdiddy, lost more than 3.6 million followers – or 22 per cent.
Justin Bieber’s count went down by 3.5 million, while Kim Kardashian lost 1.3 million making her overtake The Biebs as the most followed person.
Ironically Instagram’s own account lost in the purge too, losing more than 18.8 million followers, to take its total down to 45.2 million. You can check the top 100 losers in this infographic below
The purge does not affect the total number of human users that Instagram announced earlier last week as only human accounts were considered.
Source: Dailymail, Zach Alia
