
Can You See the Age and Gender of Your Followers?
Insights gives an age and gender split of your current followers, and Instagram infers both. What it never breaks down that way is who left.
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Insights gives an age and gender split of your current followers, and Instagram infers both. What it never breaks down that way is who left.

Four different events look like a mass unfollow, and three of them need no recovery at all. How to tell which one happened before you change anything.

No published benchmark exists, by niche or otherwise. Your own Insights give follows and unfollows per day — here is how to turn that into a real number.
Login-based unfollower apps take your account, not just your data. What Instagram's API exposes, what happens to accounts that use them, and how to undo it.

Losing one follower registers harder than gaining one, and the number itself measures almost nothing. What the count is, what it is not, and how to read it.

Instagram publishes no target and names no ranking signal that uses it. What the ratio really tells people, the 7,500 cap, and when it is worth fixing.

The API that fed unfollower apps closed in December 2024. Seven dated changes since, what each one broke, and the one method that has worked throughout.

Nine beliefs about Instagram reach, each with the thing that is actually true. Account type, scheduling, hashtags, deleting posts and the unfollow myth.

The reasons people give, the ones they do not, and how to tell a personal unfollow from a purge — plus why your own account seems to unfollow people by itself.

Most churn is decided before somebody follows you. Four changes that measurably reduce it, how to test one properly, and the tactics that do nothing.