Why are my Instagram followers disappearing?

You may or may not have realized it, but Instagram has suffered a massive loss of followers in thousands of accounts The network It's on fire and thousands of influencers are assuring that they have lost thousands of followers overnight without having done anything. If you have a small account, it is possible that you have not lost any, but in large accounts things change a lot.

Instagram has already confirmed that an error is the cause of the problem, and that it has caused thousands of followers to be disconnected.What's more, there are people who claim that they have stopped following some accounts without having done anything. Users have been aware of the bug since February 13 and so far nothing has been fixed. Will the followers return to the accounts? Some time ago, Instagram assured that it would eliminate fake and SPAM accounts from the network. The algorithm may have been too aggressive on its first day.

What's happening on Instagram?

As we can see in many influencer accounts, the loss of followers has been brutal. We leave you somescreenshots of Paula Gonu's latest storieswhere she assures that she has unfollowed more than 50 people at the same time that she has lost more than 50,000 followers on his account @paulagonufails. Obviously, Paula assures that this is a mistake and that she has never bought followers.

INSTAGRAM FOLLOWER CULL ?

Last night Instagram removed inactive / bot accounts from all accounts, globally.

I've woken up to an inbox full of messages from concerned people / influences and brands who have in some cases, lost millions of followers while they were asleep!?? pic.twitter.com/ItUXqqmwQT

- Steven Bartlett (@StevenBartlett) February 13, 2019

Another of the examples that we leave you is a tweet where you can see captures of different influencers who have lost thousands of followers these days From At the moment, all we know is that Instagram is already aware of it. Facebook has said that this is a mistake, and not the first witch hunt for fake accounts as many may have thought. The Instagram bug comes a few hours after the famous Twitter bug that didn't show likes correctly on tweets.

Some large accounts like Ariana Grande's, for example, have lost 3 million followers in just a few hours. However, many people are even happy that the so-called “ghost followers” have disappeared from their account. Instagram has published a tweet where it assures that it is an error that has caused this lack of control and that they are working to fix it.

We're aware of an issue that is causing a change in account follower numbers for some people right now. We're working to resolve this as quickly as possible.

- Instagram (@instagram) February 13, 2019

Is it true that these accounts are going to recover all the followers they have lost overnight? It seems very unlikely that this will happen, and everything indicates that the famous algorithm that would eliminate fake Instagram followers has been launchedAnother different thing is that the code has not been programmed well and has done this hunt in a much faster way than expected or that they have not properly adjusted the criteria to differentiate between fake followers and real followers.