Influencers & Celebs With Fake Instagram Followers Exposed

Technology provider Fasthost recently used Hypeauditor to find which influencers and celebrities have fake followers on Instagram.

Fasthost analysed celebrities’ and influencers’ Instagram profiles and revealed the top 25 accounts with the highest percentage of fake followers.

Makeup mogul, Kylie Jenner was found to have the most suspicious accounts following her Instagram account, with 29 per cent.

Of the 223 million people who follow Kylie, 63 million accounts are fake followers. To put this into perspective this is equal to nearly the population of France.

The Jenner’s and Kardashians dominated the fake following breakdown. Following closely in second place was Kendall Jenner and in seventh and ninth place is Jenner’s half-sisters, Kim and Kourtney Kardashian.

Rank	Influencer	No Instagram Followers	Engagement rate %	% of suspicious accounts	No fake followers	% of fake followers
1	Kylie Jenner	223.5M	3.50%	28.50%	63,697,500	40%
2	Kendall Jenner	157.6M	3.58%	27.20%	42,867,200	37%
3	Blake Lively	28.3M	7.55%	27%	7,641,000	37%
4	Justin Bieber	168.7M	0.37%	26.90%	45,380,300	37%
5	Rihanna	92.8M	1.75%	26.20%	24,313,600	36%
6	Zayn Malik	39.8M	6.56%	26.10%	10,387,800	35%
7	Kim Kardashian West	212.3M	1.32%	25.60%	54,348,800	34%
8	LeBron James	81.7M	1.70%	25.20%	20,588,400	34%
9	Kourtney Kardashian	115M	1.14%	25.10%	28,865,000	34%
10	Bad Bunny	31.7M	8.90%	25%	7,925,000	33%
11	Champagne Papi	77.6M	1.77%	24.80%	19,244,800	33%
12	Addison Rae	37.1M	7.28%	24.50%	9,089,500	32%
13	Gigi Hadid	65M	5.53%	23.90%	15,535,000	31%
14	Tom Holland	43M	13.64%	23.90%	10,277,000	31%
15	Úrsula Corberó	20.9M	13.21%	23.50%	4,911,500	31%
16	Neymar Jr.	148.1M	1.19%	23.40%	34,655,400	31%
17	Kylian Mbappé	48.9M	3.92%	23.40%	11,442,600	31%
18	Travis Scott	38.4M	6.97%	23.30%	8,947,200	30%
19	Zlatan Ibrahimović	47M	1.99%	22.60%	10,622,000	29%
20	Paulo Dybala	41.3M	3.36%	22.50%	9,292,500	29%
21	Cardi B	86.8M	1.95%	21.60%	18,748,800	28%
22	Madelaine Petsch	23.8M	11.27%	21.40%	5,093,200	27%
23	Beyonce	170.5M	1.50%	21.30%	36,316,500	27%
24	Conor McGregor	39.6M	2.50%	21.20%	8,395,200	27%
25	Ariana Grande	228.9M	2.47%	21%	48,069,000	27%

It’s worth noting that having fake or ‘bot’ followers, doesn’t necessarily mean that celebrities paid for the follower boost.

However, the findings do show that celebrities and influencer’s Instagram accounts may not be as popular as you are led to believe.

The full report can be seen at: https://www.fasthosts.co.uk/the-biggest-fake-influencers

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