Instagram Now Has 90 Million Monthly Active Users, Up 10% From December
So much for reports that Instagram is suffering from an exodus of users. Instagram revealed Thursday that it now has 90 million monthly active users. That’s up 10% from the same period a month ago,...
View ArticleApp Scours Instagram To See What’s Going On Nearby, Right Now
You’re bored at home asking “What should I do?” Meanwhile people nearby are shooting Instagrams of the fun events they’re at. Now is a free iOS app that uses Instagram’s API to sort through photos in...
View ArticleTop 10 Most Popular Tags On Instagram
The Instagram hashtag can be a pretty powerful thing. As with other social platforms, tags are used on Instagram for descriptive purposes, typically appending a caption with words that are relevant to...
View ArticleHow Pose Became the ‘Instagram of Fashion’
Pose, an online and mobile community where users go to swap photos and videos of their outfits, makeup and shopping finds, is perhaps most accurately described as “Instagram for fashion.” But Instagram...
View ArticleIsraeli Soldier Sparks Outrage By Posting Photo Of Child In Sniper Crosshairs...
The Israeli Defense Forces has a history of overzealous campaigns on its official social media accounts. So maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that an IDF sniper doesn’t take his job very seriously. Or...
View ArticleFoursquare’s API Is A Pillar Of The Mobile App Ecosystem
Foursquare has become entrenched in the fabric of the local web, providing an API that delivers common good for developers. Any destabilization in Foursquare or its developer tools would fundamentally...
View ArticleInstagram Now Lets Anyone Tag You [Or Brands] In Photos, Adds Them To “Photos...
Today Instagram launches photo tagging, the feature that fueled Facebook’s early growth. New Instagram iOS and Android updates rolling out now let you tag any person or brand in your own photos, which...
View ArticleWill Waze Be Facebook’s Next Instagram?
As has been widely reported and according to sources we have confirmed it with, Facebook is indeed in serious talks to buy Waze for $1 billion, the social traffic application that helps drivers...
View ArticleVine Becomes More Popular Than Instagram For Media Sharing On Twitter
Only five days after launching on Android, Vine has surpassed Instagram in its total daily shares on Twitter, according to metrics by Topsy. While Instagram’s numbers have been fairly flat over the...
View ArticleSnapchat Closes $60 Million Round Led by IVP, Now at 200 Million Daily Snaps
Snapchat, the ephemeral messaging service that has grown extremely popular over the past year, has closed its $60 million dollar Series B round of venture funding, the company announced on Monday...
View ArticleRyan Seacrest And Kevin Systrom Are Merging Hollywood And Silicon Valley
After bonding over their shared love of cooking during lunch in the Facebook headquarters’ cafeteria last year, Instagram founder Kevin Systrom and “American Idol” host/jack of all trades Ryan Seacrest...
View ArticleFacebook Battles Snapchat For Visual Communication By Letting iOS Messenger...
Snapchat sends 200 million private photo messages a day. WhatsApp sends 325 million. These are scary numbers for Facebook that prove the visual communication is on the rise, so it’s just begun allowing...
View ArticleHow Instagram Is Enhancing Summer’s Biggest Music Festivals
Instagram is going musical this summer, finding a home at various music festivals around the globe. Through a partnership with Instagram, several major festivals — including Chicago’s Lollapalooza and...
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