If you happen to 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 arduous to take, and would undoubtedly have you ever questioning what you probably might have mentioned improper 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 group has now rectified within the again finish of the app.

The IG group supplied this clarification to SMT:

“A technical issue resulted in Instagram accounts seeing an inaccurate loss of followers in their Account Insights, but total follower counts on profiles were not impacted. The issue has since been resolved, and follower metrics in Account Insights are now accurate.”

So for those who had been impacted, it ought to be fantastic now, or it ought to be up to date accurately at subsequent refresh.

So no, you didn’t lose your complete 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.