Instagram Has Doubled Its Monthly Active User Base in Two Years (theverge.com) 18
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.
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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.
Re:Useless Snapchat home page (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.
Re:Useless Snapchat home page (Score:4, Insightful)
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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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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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Not interested in Instagram... (Score:2)
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.
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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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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.