Floyd Mayweather is set to lose almost half of his Instagram followers if the platform follow Twitter in purging fake users.
The boxing legend is the most followed star from the sport on the platform and has a total of 28.5million fans on the platform. In a recent statement, new Twitter kingpin Elon Musk confirmed his new project would be to purge fake accounts and 'bots', which could see Meta-owned Instagram follow a similar ploy for their social media site.
According to a new study conducted by Betway on the potential fake-following purge, around 12.7 million of Mayweather's overall following are seen as spam accounts. This could see him lose up to 45 per cent of his followers and leave him with around 15.8million in total.
