Should you logged into Instagram over the weekend, you might have famous a precipitous drop in your following rely within the app.

Yeah, dropping 5 million followers (as per this instance from @tank.sinatra) could be onerous to take, and would undoubtedly have you ever questioning what you probably may have mentioned flawed to spark a mass cancelation.

Don’t fear, it’s not you. As confirmed by Instagram chief Adam Mosseri, there was a technical subject, which the crew has now rectified within the again finish of the app.

The IG crew offered this clarification to SMT:

“A technical subject resulted in Instagram accounts seeing an inaccurate lack of followers of their Account Insights, however complete follower counts on profiles weren’t impacted. The problem has since been resolved, and follower metrics in Account Insights are actually correct.”

So in the event you had been impacted, it ought to be nice now, or it ought to be up to date appropriately at subsequent refresh.

So no, you didn’t lose your entire IG viewers, no you weren’t hacked, and no, your content material hasn’t taken a nosedive of late.

It was a technical subject. Simply breathe.