After #Instagram’s Spammer Purge, #Twitter Must be Bigger Now. Right?

Photo-sharing social app Instagram has removed millions and millions of profiles that were believed to be spam accounts, in a move that has angered many users.

The cull, which has been deemed the “Instagram Rapture”, has seen seen many legitimate users lose a significant percentage of their followers.

Rapper Akon lost 4.37 million of his followers, representing 56 percent of his total.

Justin Bieber, Bruno Mars and Sean Combs also saw their follower tallies fall dramatically.

But the biggest loser was the official Instagram profile, which declined by 18.8