Who Made Instagram

Who Made Instagram: Instagram was co-founded by Stanford College graduates Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger in San Francisco, The Golden State in 2010.


Who Made Instagram


The photo-sharing as well as later video-sharing, social media sites firm's growth started when the owners chose to concentrate their multi-featured HTML5 check-in task, Burbn, on mobile digital photography.

The Brazilian business owner and also software application designer Krieger recognized, Burbn became too much like Foursquare. Burbn was after that rotated to become more concentrated on photo-sharing.

The name Instagram is stemmed from words "instantaneous video camera" and "telegram". Their iOS app was formally released through Apple's App Store on October Sixth, 2010 and later to Android on April 3rd, 2012 via Google Play (a.k.a. Android Market).

Today it boasts over 800 million signed up users around the world and more than 450 million people use the platform each day.

Many experts, myself consisted of, think that it could reach a billion users later on this year. That's more than double the month-to-month active users of Twitter and also over three times as numerous customers on Facebook Messenger and also WhatsApp.

Greater than 80% of its customers lie outside of the United States.

Facebook announced their acquisition of Instagram on April 9th, 2012 for $1 billion in cash as well as stock, in addition to 13 staff members.