Why Kylie Jenner, Ariana Grande and many more celebs lost millions of Instagram followers - Cosmopolitan.com

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The Instagram community was left ~shook~ last night, when a number of celebrities and influencers noticed their follower count dropping significantly.

The likes of Kylie Jenner, Ariana Grande and James Charles all saw their number of followers decrease, with Cosmo US reporting the Keeping Up With The Kardashian star and singer lost 3 million followers each.

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YouTuber James took to Twitter to share that his follow count had dropped, too, writing, "Why did I just lose over half a million followers @instagram wyd sis [sic]."

While some Instagram users were speculating about whether the social media app were deleting inactive accounts, hence why their numbers dropped, others assumed it was a glitch in the system.

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Instagram later took to Twitter (lol) to clear up any confusion, explaining:

"We’re aware of an issue that is causing a change in account follower numbers for some people right now. We’re working to resolve this as quickly as possible. We’re expecting to have this issue resolved by 9 a.m. PST tomorrow. We understand this is frustrating, and our team is hard at work to get things back to normal."

A quick glance at Selena Gomez, Ariana and Kylie's Instagram accounts suggest their follower counts have gone back up to what they were - which could either mean a huge bout of new followers, or that the glitch has been fixed.

Either way, our 483 loyal followers don't seem to have been impacted at all.

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