Instagram purge: Kim Kardashian, Akon, Justin Bieber, others lose followers (SEE LIST)

Instagram has begun a clampdown on fake, inactive and spam accounts and have over two nights, deleted millions of accounts.

The process shocked many, especially celebrities, who logged into their accounts and found out that the number of their followers had dropped drastically.

For example, the biggest loser was an account called chiragchirag78, who number of followers dropped from more than 3.6 million to just eight.

Instagram’s own account also lost a staggering 18.8 million of its 45.2million followers

Below is a list of celebrity big losers and the number of followers they lost

Justin Bieber – 3.5 million 

Akon – 2.4 million 

Ariana Grande – 1.5 million 

Kim Kardasian – 1.3 million 

Rihanna – 1.16 million  

Selena Gomez – 1.116million 

Diddy – 1.05 million 

Kendal Jenner – 0. 9 million 

Bruno Mars -0.883 milion 

Beyonce – 0.832 million 

Kylie Jenner – 0.827 million 

Harry Styles – 0.82 million 

Khloe Kardashian – 0.748 million 

Taylor Swift – 0.725 million 

Miley Cyrus – 0.712 million

In an official blog post, Instagram had warned:

 “In December 2014, we're fixing an ongoing issue that incorrectly includes inactive or fake accounts in follower/following lists. 

'We want to maintain the best possible experience on Instagram, so we do our best to remove spam, fake accounts and other people and posts that don't follow our Community Guidelines. 

'As we remove these accounts, some people may notice a decrease in their follower/following counts.' 

 'When we remove accounts from Instagram that don't follow our Community Guidelines, you may see a decrease in your follower count,' the firm added. 

'This shouldn’t affect engagement from authentic accounts that like and comment on your posts.'