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Instagram Has Doubled Its Monthly Active User Base in Two Years (theverge.com)

Posted by msmash on from the growth dept.

It appears that the rise of Snapchat and all its Spectacles fun have yet to slow Instagram's growth: the Facebook-owned company today announced that it has reached 600 million monthly active users, doubling its figure from 2014. From a report on The Verge: Of that statistic, 100 million monthly active users were added in the past six months -- Instagram's last milestone announcement was back in June of this year. Since then, Instagram introduced one of its biggest feature to date: Instagram Stories, a near-carbon copy of Snapchat. It also added the ability to delete followers from your private account and filter out abusive words this month, alongside an ephemeral live video function to users in the US.

18 comments

  1. Users are moving beyond Facebook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I don't think it has anything to do with the new Instagram features. Facebook is the social media gateway drug. As people become more comfortable with FB, they branch out into other things like Instagram and Twitter in time. Especially since FB feeds are now cluttered with so much crap. Also, more people they are interested in are now on Instagram. Also, it's pictures DUH!

    1. Re: Users are moving beyond Facebook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      To be fair, Facebook feeds have always been filled with crap. It's just different crap now.

    2. Re: Users are moving beyond Facebook by tripleevenfall · · Score: 2

      People are fleeing Facebook because their news feeds have become garbage chains of political keyboard-rage and garbage "Shared" posts.

      Instagram is usually content original to people I know, which is all I want to see.

  2. hey - I'm gay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    yes I'm a faggot shirtlifter

  3. Useless Snapchat home page by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Snapchat - and Facebooks equivalent - are just buzzwords to me. I just went to the Snapchat home page where I expected to find information about what it is. Nope. Just two two icons for downloading it. There is nothing whatsoever giving information about what it even is. The tabs there are there don't lead to such info either.
    Please do not give replies with information about what Snapchat is all about. The point is that you would have to do that, or I'd have to do some research, in order to find out.

    1. Re:Useless Snapchat home page by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 5, Funny

      Too bad, I'm going to tell you all about Snapchat anyway. Snapchat is a chatroom for talking about the classic children's card game "snap". The game of snap is making somewhat of a resurgence in the 21st century.

      Instagram is a scientific community based on finding ways to weigh things instantly in grams. As you can imagine, this is a purely European endeavor. There is a less communist version on the web known as Instaounce.

      Facebook, unlike what you might expect, is not a book of faces, infact, it's a place to discuss maintaining "Face". It was first founded by Sumurai's centruries ago when books were still used, hence the name. Nowadays it takes place mostly on computers and papyrus.

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      "That's the way to do it" - Punch
    2. Re:Useless Snapchat home page by spire3661 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The app companies see the web as a competitor. To them it only exists to funnel users to their ecosystem.

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      Good-bye
    3. Re:Useless Snapchat home page by SirSlud · · Score: 1

      I guess you never use Google, since there is no explaination of what it is on the front page. Or maybe, like a normal human being, if you were interested in what something was, you'd just search it and click on the wikipedia entry or any number of other articles or information about it.

      It's asinine to expect that the front page of a website explains what it is, unless you're still stuck in 1995 (which to be fair, seems to be the majority of /. users)

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      "Old man yells at systemd"
    4. Re:Useless Snapchat home page by Dogtanian · · Score: 1

      I guess you never use Google, since there is no explaination of what it is on the front page. Or maybe, like a normal human being, if you were interested in what something was, you'd just search it

      I'm also intrigued as to what this "Google" thing is, but I've absolutely no idea how I'd go about "searching" for details on it as you suggest.

      There ought to be a website to help you do that.

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      "Slashdot - News and Chat Sites Deviant". (Click "homepage" link above for details).
  4. Doubtful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Are they counting the scammers/spammers who create fake accounts and follow a bunch of users? Because I see at least 3-4 of these a week.

    1. Re: Doubtful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Technically yes. Watch this video for info on how and why they are calculating users this way:

      https://youtube.com/watch?v=n_yHZ_vKjno

  5. Jest checked the logs... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    on our web proxy, and not a single hit to then in the past three months. I doubt this story is true. They were dying two years ago and are now nearly dead.

    The surprising thing though was that there were two page loads to Twitter. It is shocking that there was actually traffic to them for the first time. Of course /. is dying too. We had less than sixty thousand hits to them in that same time period.

  6. Wow! by ZecretZquirrel · · Score: 1

    That must make them twice as valuable!

  7. Not interested in Instagram... by mlts · · Score: 1

    It is an easy platform to get on, but I don't have any need whatsoever for Instagram. For $5 a month, I can get a weenie virtual machine from Amazon LightSail with WordPress on it, add a gallery plugin, and call it done. If I need more space for items, I chuck them into a S3 bucket and link to that.

    1. Re:Not interested in Instagram... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And don't they take "possession" of your photos for their own use, like facebook does?

    2. Re:Not interested in Instagram... by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 2

      Yes, but nobody will go to your blog because it's not Instagram. Actually, nobody will go to your Instagram or Twitter either, so I guess it's a wash.

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      If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
    3. Re:Not interested in Instagram... by mlts · · Score: 1

      I really don't care who goes to my blog or not. In fact, I tore out anything SEO related. I just prefer to host what I do post on something I "own", as opposed to having the IP ceded (as per FB/Instagram's TOS) to a third party who can use it for what they want. Plus, I rather link to content from FB as opposed to hosting it for similar reasons. Plus, I trust access controls on my own site far more than sharing data on FB and hoping permissions don't revert to Everyone sometime.

    4. Re:Not interested in Instagram... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes, but nobody will go to your blog because it's not Instagram.

      My family and friends will, because I gave them the link and they know that's where they'll find my stuff.
      Is Instagram about being discovered by strangers? If so, no wonder I'm not interested.