Ronaldo lost 3,000,000 followers in yesterday’s Instagram outage
An Instagram bug led to follower counts of celebrities, influencers and even ordinary people being gutted yesterday.
Cristiano Ronaldo, the most followed person on Instagram, lost 3 million followers during the outage.
At around 2.15 pm the footballer’s Instagram following had dropped by 3 million but that number is back up to 493 million now that Instagram has fixed the glitch.
During the outage that lasted nearly eight hours, Kylie Jenner, the most followed woman on Instagram, lost over 1.1 million followers in the outage, according to CrowdTangle.
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson lost over half a million followers, Kim Kardashian lost over 749,000 followers, and Taylor Swift’s followers dropped by 674,000.
The drop in follower counts might have been due to a bug that caused millions of accounts to be suspended but the reason for the issue is unclear.
Social media consultant Matt Navarra thinks that an app update rolled out for Instagram on iOS might have caused the issue.
On Monday, Instagram said that it had fixed the software bug that prevented users from accessing the platform but did not elaborate.
Metro.co.uk has reached out to Meta for comment.
