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Title: Instagram's spam purge reveals high-profile accounts with fake followers Post by: HCK on December 20, 2014, 09:00:22 pm Instagram's spam purge reveals high-profile accounts with fake followers
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Instagram made good on its promise to delete spam accounts (http://www.macworld.com/article/2858019/instagram-celebrates-300-million-users-with-verified-badges-for-vips.html) that have plagued the service and other social networks like Twitter. Sounds like a positive move, right? Well, the sudden evaporation of millions of fake users is enraging Instagram fans who care about things like high follower counts.</p><p> Millions of accounts vanished in the Great InstaPurge of 2014, also dubbed the “Instagram Rapture (http://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-rapture-claims-millions-of-celebrity-instagram-followers-2014-12),” and the Instagrammers whose follower counts declined the most (http://64px.com/instagram/) were the ones with the highest number of followers. Celebs like Justin Bieber, DELETED, and Beyoncé saw millions of followers disappear on Thursday in the clean-up. In a funny twist, Instagram’s own account was hit the hardest, losing nearly 19 million followers or almost 30 percent of its total follower count.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2861714/instagrams-spam-purge-reveals-high-profile-accounts-with-fake-followers.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Instagram's spam purge reveals high-profile accounts with fake followers (http://www.macworld.com/article/2861714/instagrams-spam-purge-reveals-high-profile-accounts-with-fake-followers.html#tk.rss_all) |