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Is UAE Team Emirates buying followers on Instagram? You know, I am chronically online on social media and I always knew how Visma was ahead of the UAE in the numbers of followers on Instagram. The reasons were many, Visma is posting better content, Vingegaard is not using Instagram, so for info you have to follow the team and generally they are a more likeable team. And Visma after Wout’s win, finally got to the 1 million followers marker. And I checked the UAE page to see how many they have and they didn’t have 1 million. But since then, things have been happening. The UAE started to gain daily more followers than ever. Even after Pogačar’s Giro, Tour or Worlds wins. And this all without a single Pogačar race day. While Visma earned in days after a Roubaix about 5000 followers in average, UAE in a random day earned more than 30 000. And since Saturday is just four days away, they went from 936 000 followers to a current 1 024 000. Outside of the days of sharp increases, there were also significant drops when the number of followers dropped. This is also a typical sign of buying followers. So why to do this? The answer is simple. To not to look being behind Visma. You can check this data publicly on Socialblade, so you don’t think I am just creating numbers. Plus under this post, I also put the comparison between the UAE and Visma on how their followers count grew.