Here's Why Your Instagram Followers Might Have Increased And Dropped Again
Did your last snap on Instagram earn you hundreds of new followers? No, your last selfie didn’t win you hundreds or thousands of new followers, that was thanks to a bug. And since the bug has been fixed, you are probably left with the same old figure of followers. Instagram said that a bug had caused some users' follower counts to increase, but this was a bug that's being fixed.
That increase in people's follower count will disappear once the bug is completely fixed, TechCrunch reported.
The bump appeared to be somewhat proportional, meaning that some bigger accounts, like EA musician Diamond Platnumz, got a boost of up to 30,000 followers, while smaller ones like Executive CEO Arnelisa Muigai gained up to 15000.
A search on Twitter showed many users with smaller followings also saw an instant increase over the last day or so. Some were confused about whether those were real people who followed them or if Instagram was hacked. "Some people's follower counts (as shown on their profiles) have spiked (incorrectly) due to a bug. We're fixing the bug and counts will be made accurate once we've got it fixed," a company spokesperson was quoted as saying.
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