Instagram is a social network and application to upload photos and videos. Its users can also apply photographic effects such as filters, frames, thermal similarities, underlying areas in the concave bases, retro colors, and then share the photographs in the same social network or in others such as Facebook, Tumblr, Flickr and Twitter.
A distinctive feature of the application is that it gives a square shape to the photographs in honor of the Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid cameras, contrasting with the 16: 9 and 4: 3 aspect ratio currently used by most mobile phone cameras . Nowadays, the photos can be horizontal and vertical without the use of white borders, although these are partially cut out. There is also a private media to talk about called Instagram Direct.
Created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, Instagram was launched in October 2010. This application quickly gained popularity, reaching more than 100 million active users in April 2012 and more than 300 million in December 2014. Instagram was originally designed to iPhone and in turn is available for your iPad and iPod brothers with the iOS system 3.0.2 or higher. At the beginning of April 2012, an Android version was published, and in 2013 the beta version was released for Windows Phone and official for Windows 10 in 2016.
As of version 4.0 the application allows the user to take videos with a maximum duration of 1 minute. This new tool includes image stabilization. The development of Instagram began in San Francisco, when Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger chose to focus their multiple functions HTML5 check-in Burbn in a mobile photography project. The product was released on the Apple App Store on October 6, 2010, named Instagram. Shortly after the launch, Josh Riedel joined the team as Community Manager.
Shayne Sweeney joined the team in November 2010 as an engineer and Jessica Zollman was hired as a Community Evangelist on August 210.1 In September 2011, version 2.0 was launched in the App Store. New live filters were included, option to apply blur effects to specific areas, high resolution image editing, optional borders, image rotation button and an update button. On April 3, 2012 the version open to the public for Android came out.
A few weeks before, Instagram had announced that it was running tests on Android using a closed beta. In the following three months Instagram was evaluated more than one million times by Google Play users, thus becoming the fifth most evaluated application by those users in May 2013, the application had been evaluated more than 4 million times .
Also, the API of the application was released allowing third parties to create their own apps which would include Instagram services such as Instamap, Instahood or Instaweather. On April 9, 2012, it was announced that Facebook had acquired the company for one billion USD. On December 17, 2012, Instagram updated its terms of privacy and conditions of use, granting the right to sell the photos of users to third parties without notice or compensation as of January 16, 2013.
Criticism from privacy advocates, consumers, National Geographic and celebrities such as Kim Kardashian led Instagram to undo the changes imposed in the declaration of privacy terms. However, Instagram lost a lot of users, who opted to switch to other services similar to Instagram. Instagram is currently working on the development of a new text to replace the controversial terms. On May 2, 2013, Instagram introduced the possibility of tagging people and brands in any of the photos. In this way, it satisfied one of the characteristics most demanded by users.
Currently, Windows Phone already has the app in beta, being able to use all its functions except to upload videos. While in Windows 10 Mobile is already the full version of the application, after easrt so long in beta. In 2015, the possibility of advertising was incorporated from the Facebook notices platform for and on Instagram. In May 2016, Instagram renews its logo, leaving the vintage camera feature for a more colorful design, it is simply a camera behind a gradient rainbow, according to the company.
In August 2016, Instagram adds the possibility to upload photos and videos whose duration is limited to one day in a new section called Instagram Stories, making a great nod to the Snapchat application, which could not be purchased at the time by the company of Facebook for $ 3,000 million USD.
On November 21, 2016, Instagram adds a new video service to Instagram Stories, this time live, with which you can initiate a retransmission to which users can join and send messages in it, in the style Periscope, since you can also give hearts to the issuer. In December 2010, Instagram had one million registered users.
In June 2011 Instagram announced five million users and managed to move to ten million in September of the same year. Instagram announced that 100 million photos had been uploaded to its service as of July 2011. The total reached 150 million photos in August. On March 11, 2012, Instagram announced that it had reached the figure of 27 million registered users. However, at the beginning of September 2012, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, announced that the social network already has more than 100 million registered users. In May of 2012, every second, 58 photographs were uploaded and one more user joined the application.
The total number of photographs taken had exceeded one billion. On February 27, 2013, Instagram announced that it had 100 million active users, only two and a half years after the first start-up. It meant an increase of approximately 10 million users in just over a month. Finally, in August of 2017, it is confirmed that Instagram reaches a total of 800 million active users.
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