Who Started Instagram

Who Started Instagram: Instagram was co-founded by Stanford College graduates Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger in San Francisco, California in 2010.


Who Started Instagram


The photo-sharing and later video-sharing, social media sites firm's development began when the owners opted to focus their multi-featured HTML5 check-in job, Burbn, on mobile photography.

The Brazilian business owner and also software engineer Krieger realized, Burbn became as well just like Foursquare. Burbn was then rotated to become much more concentrated on photo-sharing.

The name Instagram is derived from words "instant camera" as well as "telegram". Their iphone application was officially released via Apple's Application Shop on October 6th, 2010 and later on to Android on April 3rd, 2012 with Google Play (a.k.a. Android Market).

Today it boasts over 800 million registered customers around the world and more than 450 million individuals utilize the platform each day.

Numerous experts, myself included, believe that it can get to a billion individuals later on this year. That's greater than double the monthly energetic customers of Twitter and also over three times as lots of individuals on Facebook Carrier and also WhatsApp.

More than 80% of its users are located outside of the USA.

Facebook introduced their purchase of Instagram on April 9th, 2012 for $1 billion in cash money and stock, together with 13 workers.