Question 1

What is Modash?

Accepted Answer

Modash is an influencer marketing platform. You get a searchable database of 380M+ creator profiles across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, audience analytics for any of them, plus campaign tracking and creator payments in one place. This fake follower checker is a free, limited slice of the analytics side.

Question 2

What is a fake follower?

Accepted Answer

A fake follower is an account that follows a creator without being a real person engaging with their content. That covers bots, bulk-bought followers, and accounts set up purely to inflate a follower count. Most creators pick up some of these without ever having bought them.

Question 3

What percentage of Instagram followers are fake?

Accepted Answer

It varies a lot by creator, but most Instagram accounts sit somewhere between 5% and 25%. Larger accounts often sit at the higher end, because they attract more bot activity. The rate on its own tells you less than how many real followers are left once you strip the fake ones out.

Question 4

How can you tell if an influencer has fake followers?

Accepted Answer

Run their username through the checker above for a percentage in seconds. Manually, open a few of their followers and look for missing profile images, gibberish usernames, and empty accounts; repetitive generic comments like 'Great post!'; engagement that sits below what the follower count suggests; and a sharp spike in follower growth followed by a flat stretch.

Question 5

How do you calculate the fake follower rate?

Accepted Answer

Modash analyzes a sample of a creator's followers and classifies each account as a real person, a mass follower, an influencer, a suspicious account, or a bot. The fake follower rate is the combined share of suspicious accounts and bots. The other three types are reported separately in the audience breakdown.

Question 6

What's a good fake follower percentage on Instagram?

Accepted Answer

There is no clean benchmark, and the percentage on its own is not enough to decide with. Most creators land somewhere between 5% and 25%, because every account picks up bot followers it never asked for. What matters is how many real followers are left, and how many of those match the audience you are trying to reach. A creator with 500k followers and a 25% fake rate still has 375k real followers, and if 40% of those sit in your target country, age range, and gender, that is 150k people worth reaching. Work from that number rather than from the fake follower percentage.

Question 7

Should I work with influencers who have fake followers?

Accepted Answer

Usually yes, as long as the audience left over is the right one. Almost every creator has some fake followers, so ruling out anyone above a threshold will cut good partners along with bad ones. Look at how many real followers match your target country, age range, and gender, check that engagement and comment quality hold up, then decide.

Question 8

What data does this fake follower checker include?

Accepted Answer

Fake follower rate, the full audience type breakdown (real people, mass followers, influencers, suspicious accounts, bots), engagement rate, average likes, average comments, audience location by country, and audience gender split.

Question 9

Is this fake follower checker free?

Accepted Answer

Yes, and there is no sign-up. Enter any public Instagram username and you get the results above. For the full profile, bulk checks across a whole shortlist, and the rest of the platform, start a free Modash trial.

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