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Instagram Hits 40M Users

Photo app scores 10M new sign-ups in 10 days

By Dustin Lushing,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 13, 2012 3:33 PM CDT

(Newser) – Instagram signed up 10 million more users—bringing its total to 40 million—in just the past 10 days. The retro-styling, photo-sharing app was the talk of tech after releasing a version for Android and then getting scooped up by Facebook for $1 billion, reports SlashGear. Instagram launched for the iPhone in October 2010, and picked up its first 1 million users in a mere two months.

Instagram on an iPhone.
Instagram on an iPhone.   (AP Photo/Karly Domb Sadof)
The icon for Instagram.
The icon for Instagram.   (Getty Images)
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DaiichiKuronama
Apr 14, 2012 3:00 AM CDT
Well, thanks to Instagram, I found that there are much better apps that do the same thing, but have more features, better picture quality, and share to more networks. I like PicPlz, but I realized rather quickly that Instagram is mediocre at what it does.
wwwonderer
Apr 13, 2012 4:00 PM CDT
Facebook, the company with 800M users and over 2,000 employees was threatened by competition from the company with 40M users and 13 employees; so much that Facebook paid half a year's worth of profit to eliminate the competition.
Rembrandt_Q_Einstein
Apr 13, 2012 4:00 PM CDT
I installed it on my phone and fired it up..."Login or Create a new Account..." promptly uninstalled it from my phone. The last thing I need or want is another account for some retarded "Social Media" site. That is, as far as I can tell, just one big Hipster Mactard circlejerk....with a Lomo filter.

 
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