Lost 20 followers on instagram in a flash?

[186]

I was on Instagram for like 10 minutes checking this and that. I refreshed my profile, and all of a sudden, I lost about 20-25 followers and unfollowed 4 people. I'm not instagram famous nor super popular in real life. My account is private, people I follow and the people who follow me are basically my friends and mutual follows. I probably lose a follower maybe every 1-2 weeks, but not 20 in like less in a minute and somehow unfollowed 4 people with a refresh? I'm just confused. :\

[Chevis]

wow sounds weird. not sure what could have happened but something weird is happening

[Mad Hatter]

They just did a mass clear out on Instagram and deleted inactive or false accounts

[Are You Sure?]

1. That's not a question.
2. Wrong category.

[A B2]

You follow the instructions.

[lozzzaaax]

Instagram got rid of loads of deactivated or spam accounts so your followers and following have probs changed, it happened to me too

[Axel]

Heres why .. The recent update in instagram removed all the deleted accounts that were still counted as followers ... So the deleted accounts were removed from your followers and following people .. Hope this helps.!

[Austin]

Just lost 27.. #nightmare 
why don't we all just follow each other to solve the problem? Ha  

[carlo]

the same just happened to me, i lost 22 followers in the matter of minutes

[Jack]

I lost almost 80 followers in like 10-20 seconds. I checked my profile and it showed 213 followers but after refresh - 135. WTF?