Instagram Cracks Down On Fake Profiles, Sends Warning Signals To Third Party Apps

Instagram this week officially declared a war on fake followers and fake likes that had become a problem of late. Over the years, Instagram has faced a lot of issues over fake accounts being used to boost followers of many so-called “followers”. Instagram announced in a blog post, “Recently, we’ve seen accounts use third-party apps to artificially grow their audience. Starting today, we will begin removing inauthentic likes, follows and comments from accounts that use third-party apps to boost their popularity. We’ve built machine learning tools to help identify accounts that use these services and remove the inauthentic activity.” There was a lot of activity and chaos when applications and accounts started getting blocked due to Instagram’s crackdown which came as a sigh of relief for many of its regular users. This activity is not a new thing for many social media giants especially after Twitter also took similar steps recently. Twitter famously cracked down on many a