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

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

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

The IG staff supplied this clarification to SMT:

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

So in case you had been impacted, it must be wonderful now, or it must be up to date accurately 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 problem. Simply breathe.