3 Billion Users Now Use Instagram Monthly 32
CNBC: Instagram now has 3 billion monthly active users, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday on his Instagram account. "What an incredible community we've built here," Zuckerberg posted on his Instagram channel.
The figure is a major milestone for the photo-sharing app, which the social media company acquired in 2012 for $1 billion. Meta last disclosed Instagram's user figures in October 2022 when Zuckerberg said during an earnings call that the app had crossed 2 billion monthly users.
The figure is a major milestone for the photo-sharing app, which the social media company acquired in 2012 for $1 billion. Meta last disclosed Instagram's user figures in October 2022 when Zuckerberg said during an earnings call that the app had crossed 2 billion monthly users.
FTFY (Score:5, Informative)
"What an incredible privacy scraping tool we've built here,"
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Re: FTFY (Score:2)
3 billion bots and people who didn't know they are interacting with the same company as Facebook...
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i never ever posted, but instagram has actually cool content. a very small portion of those alleged billion are actually very fine artists of all kinds very much worth watching. plus pics of cats and other animals, and even some interesting random bizarre people. if you add "/?variant=following" to the url the whole recommendation crap gets switched off, you will only see posts from the accounts you follow in chronological order. ignore the "stories", they're usually promotional crap, even from good account
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"never got around to posting anything" - if you do it will be scraped for the AI overlord's benefit with not a credit in sight for you.
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My advice to any "fine artists" relying exclusively on social media for promotion, display, or sales - Set up an independent presence as well. Use the independent presence preferentially and whenever possible.
These tech companies can and do ban accounts for any reason, or for no reason, and typically there's nothing you can do about it.
FTFY, again (Score:2)
"What an incredible privacy scraping tool we've built here,"
"What an incredible privacy raping tool we've built here,"
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Mod parent Funny, but I think the stats are the funniest part of the joke. Anyone know what percentage of the "usage" is just clicks from people who have no idea what Instagram is? Or how low the conversion rate is, where conversion in this context means non-registered users who click and Instagram link and then register on Instagram. (Oh so foolishly register.)
My FTFY contribution? When I notice a business I'm doing business with (usually a restaurant) is "relying" on Instagram I try to make it a point of
Re: Half of the entire world uses it? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Probably a good 75% of them are bots.
I mean, the world only has about 8 billion people in it, the vast majority of whom don't have internet access and/or devices that can use Instagram.
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About 5.56 billion people have Internet access, but subtract 1.12 billion for China and 130.4 million for Russia, because I'm pretty sure neither has access to U.S. social media, an that leaves 4.3 billion. So it's *maybe* possible that 69.8% of the Internet-using world uses Instagram...
But yeah, a lot of them almost certainly are bots.
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IG has some serious problems (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm a glassworker.
In the past, glassworkers have built huge followings on IG and used them to sell their work.
Some of the work was "functional", pipes used for smoking cannabis.
Evidently some advertisers don't want to be associated with "illegal drug paraphernalia", even in states where cannabis is legal, so accounts got banned.
This resulted in lost sales for some very talented and hard-working artists.
But wait, it gets worse.
Other artists made stuff like pendants, marbles, beer glasses, wine glasses, sculptures, etc...no pipes.
Many of their accounts also got banned because some of their designs kinda looked similar to designs commonly used in pipes.
The stupid robot that bans accounts can't seem to tell the difference.
Depending on social media to keep your business alive is a dangerous gamble. A small change in the rules can destroy years of work
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If only there was a way to register your own domain and have the Instagram account direct your users to it. /s
Seriously, social media is not about you. Why do you devote so much time building it up for them? Use it as a tool to direct people to something you control.
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retard.
Don't start off with that...
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Correction: (Score:2)
Instagram now has 3 billion monthly active users, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday
"Instagram now has 3 billion monthly active users, Meta[stasize] Head Privacy Rapist Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday"
There FTFY.
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Yep, his tally of "dumb fucks" keeps growing.
tells us how many morons there are (Score:2)
3 billion users (Score:2)
Funny.. (Score:2)
That's interesting because in my social circle fewer and fewer people are on it, or using it.
I'm kinda stuck with it for work and org-related stuff, and get the feeling lots others are the same.
And in that line of thought, I run several accounts...but it's just me. But I guess that's more in their count.
Beyond the bots, there's probably quite a smaller number of actual humans looking at IG.
Re: Funny.. (Score:2)
Last I checked, Facebook's user base was shrinking in the U.S., but was still expanding in plenty of other places. Might be something similar happening with IG.
How many dead? (Score:2)
I wonder when people are going to have to start substantiating how many of their unique users are still alive. Once a unique user registers, is it ever purged?
Really? (Score:2)
Getting spammed every 4 weeks is 'using' now?
2.97 billion porn bots (Score:2)