Android – Instagram Hits 10 Million Downloads In 22 Days
Instagram for Android is growing at a huge rate, today they’ve hit a benchmark of 10 million downloads in just 22 days after it launched on Google Play. Since it was announced that Facebook were purchasing Instagram for $1 billion the downloads have continued to roll in, the company is expecting 50 million users on all platforms after hitting the 40 million mark just under two weeks ago.
When Instagram was launched for Android the downloads reached 1 million in under 24 hours, this figure was rapidly surpassed to 5 million downloads in 6 days and so it continues.
Despite many wondering whether Facebook had paid too much for Instagram, so far it looks like a smart move and downloads are showing no abating.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
