Do your Followers on Instagram get an Alert when you upload a picture?

[Annoyingloaf592]

So I am new to Instagram, but I was wondering if I upload a new picture on my instagram, will my followers be notified immediately? Or will they find out only if they check their Instagram newsfeed? I am wondering because I saw some people upload a picture and in like 5 min they will have 40+ likes on a picture

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Well your followers dont actually get notifidied haha (: they only see your picture when they check their neesfeed & they probably got likes because they have plenty of followers cx