You should gain followers on Instagram, not remove them; this is what common sense says.
But here is why to remove Instagram followers:
Ghost Followers
Briefly, Ghost followers are the followers who don’t like, comment or engage with your posts. Even many of them will never show up, and they are just a crowd of fans. If you use Instagram to promote your business, they will never purchase your products, and if you want your followers’ interactions, they won’t. Definitely, they are not your real followers. Therefore, you need to remove ghost followers on Instagram.
Low Engagement Rate
Have you ever noticed why your Instagram account’s engagement stats are low?
One requirement of high engagement is that your followers are of good quality. Otherwise, it would be better to remove followers.
If most of your followers don’t mind about what you’re posting or if they’re not very active on Instagram, then your engagement stats will suffer.
That is to say, the quality of your followers is much more important than the quantity.
Hence, if your account has garnered thousands of disengaged followers within the years, they are seriously lowering your engagement rate.
Fake Accounts
Fake accounts are pretty obvious, and to increase the engagement rate, you must remove all fake Instagram followers.
They’re the accounts with no profile photo or profile, no posts, a couple of followers, and following thousands and thousands of accounts. Probably, they are paid by someone else to follow you.
Inactive Instagram followers
Inactive Instagram followers have taken a break from Instagram or have stopped using it altogether.
These are accounts with no actual value for you despite rising your followers’ rate.
Chances are high they will never come back to the platform or reactivate their Instagram accounts, so you can preferably remove these Instagram followers.
Mass followers
Instagram has applied a “following” limit of 7,500. Indeed, people who follow 7,500 accounts and more are just doing so to expand followers. The game of “I’ll follow you in hopes you follow me back.” Honestly, most of us have done it, but probably not to this extent.
Actually, they will never see your posts, and it prevents you from enhancing engagement. Consequently, it would be best if you remove mass Instagram followers.
Checking all your followers to find the fake ones might take much time and be tricky. AiGrow, an excellent Instagram management tool, will help you to find them.
How to remove followers on Instagram?
We all have had the problem of unwanted followers, the ones who annoy you or the ones you may have fought with. You prefer not to talk or see their post or stories anymore, or your relatives, or some people you don’t want to have an idea of what’s going on in your life, an ex, for example, or just someone who creeps you out.
Blocking people is one option in hand, but that doesn’t seem right, so the best thing the cut them off from their life, hoping they won’t notice, is to remove them from your follower’s list in this way, they won’t be able to see your post or stories while you are still following them or else you can stop following them too.
If you are a public figure, you may encounter many people who are either disrespectful, comment on something inappropriate, or spam your account with unwanted tags or messages; for such people, this feature is quite useful.
All you have to do:
1) Go to your profile icon: the icon with your profile picture on it; once you enter, there you’ll notice two lists, one of the followers and the other for the following.
2) Select the follower’s list: you’ll have the list of all your followers in that; now you can either search by name or by their Instagram I’d or scroll down to search them.
3) In front of their name, there is either a remove option that will remove them from your follower’s list, or you’ll find three dots, click on them, an icon will pop up mentioning, “you sure want to remove the follower”? Click on confirm.
That’s it!