Instagram deletes millions of accounts in spam purge
Found on BBC News on Sunday, 21 December 2014
Photo-sharing app Instagram has removed millions of accounts believed to be posting spam, angering many legitimate users.
Rapper Ma$e, who lost more than a million followers, deleted his account after he was accused of paying for more followers, while video blogger Jamie Curry tweeted: "I lost 30k followers on instagram omg.
And nothing of value was lost.