Is everyone losing followers today?
No platform-wide purge right now. Share of tracked accounts down in the last 24 hours: YouTube <1%, GitHub 5%.
Share of tracked accounts that lost followers in the last 24 hours. Tap a platform to check your own handle.
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Is Instagram removing followers today?
We can’t show an Instagram status yet. Instagram only lets an app read the follower count of the account that signed in, so there’s no fair way to watch hundreds of public accounts. Until there is, this is how to tell a purge from a real loss:
- Check whether other creators mention a drop on the same day. A purge hits many accounts at once.
- A purge mostly removes inactive and spam accounts, so your reach and likes don’t move with it.
- If only your count dropped, look at the post or story right before it.
- Track your own account in the CountDeck app to see your daily net change, so you know the size of the drop and the day it happened.
How the radar counts
- We read the counts of public accounts CountDeck already tracks: counter pages people look up, handles followed in the app and the accounts we seed. Up to 1,000 per platform, picked at random.
- An account is down when its count now is lower than its last count at least 24 hours ago (7 days for the weekly figure). Accounts without a count in the last 2 days are left out.
- No status until 100 accounts have a fresh count. "More drops than usual" means at least double the usual share and 10 points above it; "Widespread" means half or more are down.
- Only percentages are shown. We never list which accounts lost followers.
Questions people ask
Is Instagram removing followers today?
We can’t say yet: Instagram doesn’t let apps read other accounts’ follower counts at scale, so the radar covers YouTube, Bluesky, X and GitHub. Instagram removes fake and inactive accounts in waves, so a sudden drop shared by many creators on the same day is usually a cleanup, not real people leaving. Track your own account in the CountDeck app to see your daily change.
Why are my YouTube subscribers dropping?
YouTube regularly removes spam and closed accounts from subscriber counts, and people unsubscribe after a video they didn’t like. Above 1,000, YouTube rounds public counts to 3 significant figures, so a small loss can look like a jump down. Your exact count is in YouTube Studio.
Why did I lose followers overnight?
Most sudden drops come from the platform removing spam, bot or deactivated accounts, not from real people leaving. If many accounts drop on the same day, it is a purge. If only you dropped, look at what you posted last.
How do I know if it’s just me?
Compare your drop with the share of tracked accounts that lost followers today. If that share is far above the usual day, the platform is cleaning up. If it’s normal, the drop is specific to your account.
My follower count isn’t updating. Is it broken?
Platforms cache public counts, sometimes for hours. If your count is frozen while followers come in, wait a day before you worry. The radar only uses counts that changed within the last 2 days.
Do you show which accounts lost followers?
No. The radar only shows percentages across all tracked accounts. Your own handle’s numbers appear only when you look it up.