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If you haven't noticed, Instagram has a problem: spam.
There are (now, were) millions of fake spam accounts on the social network, which the company spent the last few weeks going through to clean out of its system. In the last 24 hours, those accounts were wiped (I lost about 12 followers) and now everyone who is following you should be a real person. Still, since people put so much significance on their follower accounts (social media is a popularity contest, after all), Instagram users were pissed:
It was the social media equivalent of dropping a nuke on accounts; users even billed the event the #InstagramRapture. But since we're not famous, a few followers disappearing from our totals is just a drop in the bucket. For celebs? Oceans of followers suddenly evaporated from their accounts and into the ether. And when your follower count drops by the millions in just a day? Well, that's hard not to notice.
Here are top celebrity accounts and the amount of spammers that were cleaned up during the #InstagramRapture.
