Why did IG Suspends 30M users that Affected Many Social Media Marketers

Over the weekend Instagram purged a host of accounts with a collective following of over 30 million users for violating TOS.

“Instagram told disgruntled users that the accounts were removed for “not following our terms” without providing more specific details on infractions. “We’re unable to restore accounts that are suspended for this reason,” the notice reportedly stated.”

Take a look at their updated policy here:
https://instagram-press.com/blog/201…isable-policy/

The kind of accounts were deemed fake accounts or spam accounts and many were unused, along with meme accounts were targeted. But a lot of legitimate marketing accounts were deleted too as well as some legitimate accounts of ecommerce website that were doing social media marketing.

Instagram’s tweet read: “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.”

The last time the social media giant Instagram, which is owned by Facebook did this in February, they say it was a glitch in their system.

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