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Instagram Debuts On Android

Posted by samzenpus on from the spread-the-love dept.

redletterdave writes "Popular photo-sharing app Instagram, which has been one of the most popular social start-ups despite only being housed on a single platform (iOS), was finally released onto the Android ecosystem on Tuesday. The app, which boasts more than 10 million users and plenty of ways to stylize and share photos, is available as a free download from Google Play."

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  1. Someone is going to create the ultimate social app by crazyjj · · Score: 4, Funny

    Soon, someone will create a social network app that limits posters to one short word, and/or one video of a douchebag face-planting into a tree. The public will embrace it with slavish devotion, every old fart on CNN will sign up for it in a desperate bid to show that they're still hip with the kids, and all subsequent public discourse will be reduced to exchanges like:

    @ballz: Hey
    @iluvvampires: Wsup?
    @wolfCNN: Hello.
    @hotgirl234: Yeah!
    @Avenger938: Ha! [video of drunk guy running into tree on motorcycle]

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  2. Great! by readandburn · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Now more people can post photos using those terrible filters!

  3. Re:Someone is going to create the ultimate social by vlm · · Score: 4, Funny

    twitter? Is that you?

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  4. Re:Someone is going to create the ultimate social by jeffmeden · · Score: 4, Funny

    Youmustbenewhere.

  5. Re:Why should I care? by MrHanky · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a photo app that turns the images from your already crap phone camera into even worse photos in the style of a broken Polaroid camera, like all the other photo filter apps out there, but this one is tied to one specific web service. Basically, it takes shittier photos under worse terms.

  6. Re:Someone is going to create the ultimate social by toriver · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well you can take your character limit and sho

  7. Re:Who cares by sootman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Mark Zuckerberg didn't do anything that we "nerds" couldn't do, either, but he turns 28 this month and could buy Spain if he wanted to, and you can't.

    Instagram got 10M users with one app on one platform. How many people follow any of your sites? It is indeed newsworthy. One thing we nerds need to know is what is going on in the tech world that our friends and family are asking and talking about--not just sticking our heads in the sand yelling "the fax machine is nothing but a waffle iron with a phone attached!" like Grandpa Simpson.

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