Instagram have begun to delete accounts on the service that they believe are posting spam. They announced their plans to clean up the social media service about a week ago after beating Twitter with 300 million active users.
Next time you log into Instagram, you may notice your follower numbers have taken a hit.
Instagram is clamping down on fake or bot , inactive and spam accounts by completely removing them from the service.
The Facebook-owned app announced the plans earlier this year, and began purging the unwanted accounts last night..
The web developer Zach Allia created an infographic outlining the damage to Instagram’s 100 most popular accounts, and celebrities have clearly been hit hardest.
The Instagram’s spam purge reveals high-profile accounts with fake followers. Justin Bieber’s Instagram fan base plummeted by 3.5 million fans in the past 24 hours. Akon’s follower count dropped to 1.9 million from 4.3 million.


The funniest part is that , Rapper Mase dropped to 100,000 followers from 1.6 million in a matter of 20 minutes. he believe he had just lost so many followers he decided to delete his account entirely.



nstagram’s own account lost the most followers, probably at least in part because of all the people who angrily unfollowed in protest, according to the Verge. And we don’t know who chiragchirag78 is—that account no longer exists and lost 99.9% of its followers. But most of the others on the top 20 chart are celebrities.

Justin Bieber and the Kardashians are among the biggest losers of the Instagram Rapture..


Josh “The Fat Jew” Ostrovsky, a popular Instagrammer with 2.2 million followers, describe this bloodbath hilarious. “This should be a national holiday,” he added. “We all know who bought followers, so today just corroborated everyone’s suspicions. So many people losing their followers, watching their digital worlds crumble. Today is so fun.”
Ben Baller, a jeweler to the stars, has also been relishing in the #InstagramRapture. He’s been calling users out publicly on Twitter, where he has nearly 500,000 followers.
Businesss insider also re[port that , Not everyone shares his enthusiasm.
Thousands of people have been flooding the comments on Instagram’s official account begging the service to reinstate their previous follower numbers.
My advice for everyone one is to build your followers and shun any form of fake followers or bot..
I think this is a good move by instagram , and i hope twitter also do something like this , let join hands together to keep the social media clean.

what do you think?.

visit the source to check the list of TOP INSTAGRAM USERS WHO LOST THE MOST FOLLOWERS OF THE WEEK
source : http://techcribng.com/instagram-rapture-deletes-millions-of-accounts-in-one-night/

chisos!!! . Oga seun, please front page

I escaped the rapture off to check our naija celebs...

MODIFIED: Wizkid dropped to 45,000

that awkward moment when u find out maheeda's intagram acc got deleted too

Ahh! Shoki!!

alberto2k:
that awkward moment when u find out maheeda intagram acc got deleted too

Ahh! Shoki!!

yes ooo! #scientists don't dance shoki.

CrazyScientist:
chisos!!! . Oga seun, please front page

I escaped the rapture off to check our naija celebs...

MODIFIED: Wizkid dropped to 45,000

if it make the front page , i will share testimony in church tomorrow. lol..

CrazyScientist:
chisos!!! . Oga seun, please front page

I escaped the rapture off to check our naija celebs...

MODIFIED: Wizkid dropped to 45,000

Fake. Account

orlaryhincah:

Fake. Account

Oh nah nah!

CrazyScientist:


Oh nah nah!

what is your name, lol.
shun fake followers now.

Wow

omobone:
Wow

that is it o.

Lol, the drop for some people was absolutely crazy, one chick that I follow that is always forming model went from 10k to about 2200... FUTA babe wey I sabi wey no too popular like that o(always wondered how she got 10k but I assumed it was the "girl power" working) now I am even surprised that she even has 2k that are legit.
on another note, my followers went from 1.2k to 1.1k (lost about 60 followers) and on doing some inspection I came to notice that some of my friends that just joined instagram, had like 1k following and 25 followers without any posts are gone now. SO IF YOU KNOW THAT YOU JUST SIGNED UP ON INSTAGRAM TO LOOK AT PICS WITHOUT POSTING, GO AND CHECK IF YOU CAN LOG IN O COZ YOU MIGHT HAVE BECOME LOST YOURSELF...

Operation sanitize the internet

ok

Hmmm, so my acount i created since 2011 which i have not opened since d following week

Has been deleted is that. Ok.

dazekid:
Lol, the drop for some people was absolutely crazy, one chick that I follow that is always forming model went from 10k to about 2200... FUTA babe wey I sabi wey no too popular like that o(always wondered how she got 10k but I assumed it was the "girl power" working) now I am even surprised that she even has 2k that are legit.
on another note, my followers went from 1.2k to 1.1k (lost about 60 followers) and on doing some inspection I came to notice that some of my friends that just joined instagram, had like 1k following and 25 followers without any posts are gone now. SO IF YOU KNOW THAT YOU JUST SIGNED UP ON INSTAGRAM TO LOOK AT PICS WITHOUT POSTING, GO AND CHECK IF YOU CAN LOG IN O COZ YOU MIGHT HAVE BECOME LOST YOURSELF...

un, u have a point.

deejayharry1:
lol, i noticed, they also changed from maybe writing 1507 followers to 1.5K

Exactly

macklef:
Hmmm, so my acount i created since 2011 which i have not opened since d following week
Has been deleted is that. Ok.

Most likely but you can still try it sha... Seriously doubt it will work though.

this is very good

These is a welcome development, histagram account with huge inorganic followers must pay heavily, most of the accounts deleted are in active or fake accounts created by bots for spamming and the reduction in histagram followers in member accounts is as a result of violating histagram terms and conditiion, by using bot to increase the number of their followers, Most histagram members with huge followers often boost the number of their followers using illegal means which is common with celebrities. Celebrities use the huge followers to boost their ego.

nice development..hopefully twitter can do likewise

Me way still dey pray for hundred followers,, make I see how many remain now

shogz89:
Me way still dey pray for hundred followers,, make I see how many remain now

maybe 2.

I escaped with a reduction in the numbers of my followers.

Samklef now has 17 followers

nawaoo

Oya front page jare...

I still v my zero followers jor

CrazyScientist:
chisos!!! . Oga seun, please front page

I escaped the rapture off to check our naija celebs...

MODIFIED: Wizkid dropped to 45,000

From?

I haven't logged into my account for close to a year now.

Make I rush download d app n log in to see if i ve been raptured or not.

Hmmmm

eyah....

Ko k'aiye... its instagram not Nairaland, so I don't bloody care