{"id":74325,"date":"2014-12-23T20:06:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T01:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2021-08-24T16:14:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T20:14:22","slug":"instagram-purge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/instagram-purge\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram Purge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"InstagramJust in time for the holidays, online time-waster Instagram<\/a><\/strong> cleansed itself of several million fake followers.<\/strong> The photo-sharing service warned all of its “users” they were going to delete fake accounts and low-n-behold they actually did. The inevitable whining<\/strong> from the entitled generation<\/strong> ensured as their follower’s nee spambots<\/a> were deleted one by one.<\/p>\n

\"faux-lebrites\"<\/a>The moaning and wailing and gnashing of teeth that was coming for LA-LA land and its faux-lebrites<\/strong> whose “followers” disappeared overnight. According to the site 64px.com<\/a> \u00a0(bravo sir!), the top biggest loser<\/strong> was Instagram itself which lost nearly 19 million fake followers. The biggest\u00a0faux-lebrity losers (and click-bait) in the\u00a0#InstagramRapture<\/strong> according to the site are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Rank<\/th>Account<\/th>Users disappeared<\/th>% Users disappeared<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
1<\/td>Instagram<\/td>18,880,211<\/td>29.44<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>justinbieber
\n<\/td>		3,538,228
\n<\/td>		14.86
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>arianagrande<\/td>1,529,206
\n<\/td>		7.03%
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>kimkardashian<\/td>1,300,963<\/td>5.53<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>selenagomez<\/td>1,116,032
\n<\/td>		5.70%
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>kendalljenner
\n<\/td>		906,897
\n<\/td>		5.32%
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>kyliejenner<\/td>826,529<\/td>5.28%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>beyonce
\n<\/td>		831,971
\n<\/td>		3.75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>khloekardashian
\n<\/td>		748,269
\n<\/td>		4.70%
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>taylorswift<\/td>725,379<\/td>4.39%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>mileycyrus
\n<\/td>		711,898
\n<\/td>		5.03<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>snookinic<\/td>378,116<\/td>7.2838%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Not only the denizens of LA-LA Land that were impacted by the Instagram purge, but several businesses also\u00a0lost large numbers of bogus fans. Besides Instagram the biggest business loser include:<\/p>\n