If you had been booted off Instagram for no rattling motive this morning, you’re not alone. Tons of individuals are reporting the identical downside. Instagram has confirmed that it’s having some “issues” however hasn’t clarified what kind of points they’re or why any of that is taking place.

Downdetector, which tracks outage complaints on common platforms, noticed a surge in stories for Instagram beginning round 9 a.m. EST on Monday morning. Users flocked to Twitter to share their tales, reporting a wide range of issues. Some mentioned they’d tried to log into their accounts, solely to be greeted by a message telling them that their account had been suspended for violating group requirements. Other customers say they had been met with a “user not found” message, as if their account had by no means existed within the first place. And nonetheless others had been in a position to efficiently log in however reported seeing their follower counts plummet precipitously for no obvious motive.

Around an hour after the mayhem began, at 10:14 a.m. EST, Instagram put out a press release on Twitter confirming that one thing uncommon was occurring:

It is unclear simply how many individuals are being impacted by the incident. Downdetector shows a surge of no less than 7,511 stories on the peak of discontent, although the true quantity is probably going increased than that. Gizmodo reached out to Instagram for extra particulars and can replace this story in the event that they reply.

Of course, this isn’t the primary time—nor seemingly the final—that Instagram or its guardian firm Meta suffers an outage. Last 12 months, a large outage took down all of Meta’s platforms, together with Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, successfully erasing the tech large’s presence from the net for a interval of a number of hours. Clearly this isn’t that unhealthy, although it’s not precisely the best way you’d wish to begin your week for those who’re a gram fan.