Instagram follower events

Big follower moves and milestones among the most-followed Instagram accounts, followed day by day from our readings.

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1. • Drop
   • 2 Oct 2026
   • Still developing

   Portugal's account loses 1.7 million followers

   Portugal's account fell from 24.8 million to 23.1 million followers from Oct. 1 to Oct. 3. The New York Times reports Cristiano Ronaldo left camp after a crisis meeting.

   • Sports
   • World
   • Portugal
   23.0M23.5M24.0M24.5M25.0M1 Oct3 Oct
2. • Milestone
   • 2 Oct 2026

   MrBeast passes 90M Instagram followers

   MrBeast crossed 90M Instagram followers on 2 Oct after gaining about 496K followers over the previous week.

   • Creators
   • World
   89.4M89.6M89.8M90.0M90.2M25 Sep29 Sep3 Oct

A move is listed when it reaches at least 1% of the account's followers and news coverage explains it. Milestones are round numbers passed by well-known accounts. Every number is a dated reading of the public follower count, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0. Atom feed