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The Lurk Monthly Instagram Data Drop
Every month, Lurk mines its own Instagram follow-graph — the same anti-flap store behind the live Follow Index — for one genuinely surprising, exact, quotable statistic, and publishes it as a free, citable report. Latest edition: August 2026.
Instagram Following: August 2026
September 22, 2026One confirmed unfollow every 204.8 minutes. 218 unfollows and 2,600,173 new follows confirmed; the median account follows 478 others.
Read the August report →Instagram Following: July 2026
September 22, 2026One confirmed unfollow every 77.6 minutes. 575 unfollows and 1,526,509 new follows confirmed; the median account follows 478 others.
Read the July report →Instagram Following: June 2026
July 5, 2026One confirmed unfollow every 17.8 minutes. 2,430 unfollows and 22,328 new follows confirmed; the median account follows 399 others.
Read the June report →Looking for the year-in-review edition? See the flagship State of Instagram Following 2026 report, or the atomic single-stat data pages.