Kim Kardashian is now the most powerful person on Instagram

After Instagram killed off a bunch of spam accounts.
Kim Kardashian at the Diamond Ball
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She may not have broken it this year, But Kim Kardashian is at least one step closer to ruling the internet. Yup, she's now the most followed, and therefore most powerful, celeb on Instagram.

Instagram finally took action against all those spam accounts today. Which is good, because YAY, fewer comments telling you how to win an iPad just from sitting on your bum scrolling through Instagram, but bad for some people, because they'll see a significant decrease in their number of followers. Like Justin Bieber, who lost 3 million followers, and, in the process, his spot as the most followed person.

Also taking a massive hit were Ariana Grande and Rihanna, who each lost just over a million, and Akon, who lost around half of his followers. Poor things. Despite losing a million followers, Kim has managed to hold on to over 22 million Instagram fans, making her the most followed person on the site. Clearly it pays to crop your daughter out of your selfies (North's eyes were closed and she was feeling her look. CAN SHE LIVE?)


Second in line to the beautifully filtered throne is Beyoncé, just one million behind Kim after losing over 800,000 followers today. The de-spamming of Instagram is ongoing, so Beyoncé may be able to pip Kim to the top and claim her crown as the most important celeb around.

The follower cull (or the great despamination of 2014, as we hope it will henceforth be known) has left a LOT of people very upset, as they watch their Insta-status drop along with their followers. Rapper Ma$e has deleted his account after an embarrassing loss, as did a user named chiragchirag78, who went from over 3 million followers to only 8. Wow.

The biggest loss, however, happens to be Instagram itself, dropping over 18 million followers in the process of the deletion. They're probably not too bothered, though, as they still have 45 million followers - that's double Kim's account.

There's now a pretty massive debate over what this means about celebs' use of Instagram. Do the losses just mean that particular celebs attract more spam accounts? Or could it mean that those celebs had paid for fake accounts to create the appearance of internet popularity?

Let us know your thoughts by commenting below, or tweeting us @CosmopolitanUK.

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