About 300 million active users last month he announced that he has it Instagram, showing 50% increase in just nine months, and in February 2013 had only 100 million users.
Plus, the number of active Instagram users has surpassed those of Twitter, which each month amount to about 284 million.
Instagram, which allows its users to exchange photos and video, acquired in 2012 by Facebook, which has 1,35 billion monthly active users.
Σύμφωνα με τους «New York Times» και το «BBC», πάνω από το 70% των χρηστών του συγκεκριμένου μέσου κοινωνικής δικτύωσης βρίσκονται εκτός ΗΠΑ, ενώ η εντυπωσιακά γρήγορη ανάπτυξή του, μετά τη δημιουργία του το 2010, οφείλεται κυρίως στο ότι η ανταλλαγή βίντεο αποτελεί πλέον την πιο «καυτή» ενασχόληση των χρηστών στα Social Networks.
Twitter is already upgrading its own short video service, called Vine.
Kenneth Sistrom, managing director and co-founder of Instagram, said the network would now begin to verify the accounts of celebrity actors and athletes so that service users are confident that the content they see in an account is authentic.
One problem that plagues Instagram, as well as Facebook and other social networks, is imposters accounts users, for example those who purport to belong to well-known multinational companies, when in fact they are "monkeys", created by hackers and other malicious individuals.
Recently, Instagram allowed ads to be promoted to increase revenue, something that did not appeal to all its users.
"When you already have 300 millions of users, it's not a cheap case to" run "all this service, as you have to hire other people," Kenneth Sistrom justified.
Source: AMPE naftemporiki.gr
