Instagram is five today: top UK accounts

Celebrating its fifth anniversary today, the photo sharing app owned by Facebook has revealed the top five UK accounts.

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A photo posted by @harrystyles on Sep 22, 2015 at 10:40am PDT

David Beckham (@davidbeckham) follows Styles (@harrystyles). Beckham has reached the top five even though he only joined the site within the past 12 months.

Looking forward to my appearance at the new @adidasMENA store in Dubai this afternoon. #mydubai

A photo posted by David Beckham (@davidbeckham) on Sep 28, 2015 at 10:52pm PDT

Niall Horan (@niallhoran), also of One Direction fame, is in the third spot.

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A photo posted by Niall horan (@niallhoran) on Sep 23, 2015 at 12:18pm PDT

Gareth Bale (@garethbale11), the Welsh footballer who currently plays for Real Madrid, takes the fourth position.

Huge honour to be voted @fawales Player of the Year from the boys, big thank you to everyone involved!

A photo posted by Gareth Bale (@garethbale11) on Oct 5, 2015 at 3:06pm PDT

The fifth top Instagram account in the UK is @fakeliampayne which is run by Liam Payne, the One Direction singer.

A photo posted by Liam Payne (@fakeliampayne) on Sep 5, 2015 at 10:23pm PDT

Two weeks ago Instagram gained more than 400 million monthly active users, up from 300 million just nine months prior.