Instagram Now Has 80 Million Users
Showing absolutely no sign of a slowdown, Instagram is racing ahead and now has 80 million users, that’s a 60% increase from just the past 13 weeks. AllThingsD spoke with an infrastructure engineer and he said, “We now have >5.7m users per employee and “We’re hiring :),” Branson added.
It seems that those concerned that Facebook’s commitment of $1 billion would prove a negative effect on growth have been proved wrong. There also looks like there is no sign on the horizon for this growth to stop or even slowing down. So whether you’re using the Android or Apple version of Instagram, ones thing for sure, you’re not alone, not by a long shot.
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.
