Instagram's spam purge reveals high-profile accounts with fake followers<article>
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Instagram made good on its
promise to delete spam accounts 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,” and the Instagrammers whose
follower counts declined the most 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>
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Instagram's spam purge reveals high-profile accounts with fake followers
