Watch out for accounts on
Instagram claiming a mass purge is coming on January 1, 2015
unless your account is “verified”, with the aid of a so-called Verification Arrow.
Profiles such as the one below (with 110k followers at time of writing) are receiving a fair amount of traction with between 5,000-8,000 likes per image (I got 6 for a picture of a cat once), stating:
If your account doesn't have a picture of an arrow next to it then it's in the process of being deleted. To get your arrow, please follow the instructions below
1) Follow @verifyingarrows
2) Repost our photo
3) Tag @verifyingarrows
4) Hashtag #verifyingarrows
