Instagram shows a profile's follower count as it is right now and publishes nothing about what it was yesterday. Growth data therefore does not exist unless somebody records it, which is what our crawler does: it snapshots every tracked account and rolls those snapshots into a daily table of followers at end of day and the day's change. Every growth figure on this page comes out of that table, which is current through 2026-09-20.
There is no Instagram trending endpoint to read. No topic ranking, no hashtag volume, nothing about what the platform as a whole is searching for is published to a logged-out reader. So this board is explicitly a view of our catalog, not a census of Instagram, and the hashtag section counts tags in the captions of posts we have stored rather than claiming a search volume it has no way to know.
Growth is published two ways because either one alone misleads. By followers gained, the ranking is a list of the largest accounts we track. By percent, it fills with small accounts where a handful of new followers is a huge week, which is why that ranking carries a floor of 10,000followers. Reading them side by side is what separates a big account's ordinary week from a mid-sized account's genuine breakout.
Every figure here is measured from PlayerSells' own Instagram crawl and daily snapshots. Nothing is bought from a data vendor and nothing is read from a logged-in session.
