Imagine this: Your Instagram account is doing pretty well with engaging your current followers.
You’re producing quality content…
You’re having fun…
Your followers are reacting to it… loving it… you’re on top of your Instagram game.
But one day, one casual, shiny, sunny day you start noticing some changes in your engagement.
It stops scaling.
Or even worse.
Drops. And then it hits you right in the heart…
You realize your Instagram engagement is dying.
Now stop imagining. Compare the picture you created with your reality.
Are they similar?
If that’s a positive answer, you, dear friend are a victim of every influencer’s nightmare – scourging fake followers (a.k.a ghost followers)
And you are here because you want to know how to delete these followers from your Instagram account.
What is a ghost follower?

Now before we jump into the tactics on how to mass unfollow on Instagram, let’s first define what a ghost follower is.
It’s not THAT spooky as it may sound.
If you’re looking to monetize your audience though…
…it’s quite horrible for your account to have ghost followers.
Besides the fact that these ghost followers will never ever buy anything from you, they also lower your trust score.
This means your real followers will not even see your content that you upload on Instagram.
I’ve explained how all this works below.
For now, all you need to know is that ghost followers are Instagram accounts that follow you but don’t engage with your account in any way or form.
No likes.
No comments.
Not even watching your stories.
They’re just there. And they’re hurting your reach big time.
How bad is it really?
Okay, here is how the Instagram engagement algorithm works in a couple of sentences.
You have a follower count.
This follower count divides into 2 audiences.
Instagram followers that engage with your content.
And accounts (most of them are not real people) that do not.
So what the algorithm will do is whenever you post content, it will show it only to a small section of your followers.
And analyze.
If you get a steady amount of engagement on your post, the algorithm will further show it to other followers you have.
By the way, the best type of engagement is reposts.
This is THE secret for exponential growth.
If it doesn’t perform that well though…
Well, then your content will go in the shadows, never to be seen ever again by a real human being.
Okay, I’ve kind of overestimated a little, but you get what I’m saying.
Summed in 3 words: Engagement = More Engagement.
For example, if the algorithm shows your content to 100 people
and a half or more of them don’t engage with it (if they’ve seen it), it’s pretty bad.
And your content won’t spread among the platform.
Quick tip before we move forward:
Never ever buy followers in bulk.
As we already went over this, these accounts are NOT going to engage with your content and it will do more harm than good.
If you’ve already done that though, your account can still be repaired.
We’ve developed a special Instagram cleaner
Click here to see more.
How to find and remove ghost followers?
Okay, so you already know how horrible these contagious ghost followers are for your Instagram account.
And now you are wondering: “Okay, so how to remove these followers?”
There is a way you can actually mass unfollow these accounts on Instagram, but we’ll get to that later.
Well it might sound kind of harsh but…
… you might want to unfollow a lot of accounts in bulk.
If you are following more than 1000 people, you definitely should consider that.
It’s good for your Trust Score.
Here’s why:
The more people you follow the more people the algorithm has to filter.
Because lots of people are not seen by you.
Get it?
And the second thing you’ll have to consider is deleting some of your followers.
You’ll have to do it manually which kind of sucks if you have, like, thousands and thousands of followers.
Which is why we’ve developed an Instagram cleaner that can mass unfollow these pests for you.
You can check it here.
Back to the point now.
When checking profiles you’ll have to see if they:
– follow a lot of accounts (above 1500)
– have a profile picture (obviously if they do not, it’s red flag)
– are uploading content (if not, red flag as well)
