O Instagram six years on 6 in October, the social network that was created in 2010 by brazilian Mike Krieger along with the North American Kevin Systrom, Instagram was born as an application for mobile phones with operating system iOS, ie it was only for iPhone. Today the social network is available on virtually all operating systems from iOS, Android, Windows Phone and even web versions.
In 2012, Instagram was purchased by Facebook in the amount of $1 billion, which allowed Facebook to integrate its services with the network of photos and further increase its user base, we can say that the social network has gained more life after joining the Facebook family. And it was from there that many changes appeared.
Instagram is a social network that, started to evolve over time, several changes were implemented. Today the application has more than 500 million of active users per month. The United States remains the country with the most users and Angola currently has a large number of users, although the exact numbers of national users have not been released. In the past, the social network only allowed the publication of videos with a duration of fifteen seconds and today it is already possible to publish videos of up to one minute.
The six years of Instagram have not always been rosy, some changes implemented have caused some controversy, such as the drastic change in the way publications are displayed on users' pages today, something that most of them did not like, this change. The opening of space for ads, which have been accused by users of being more invasive than the ordinary. It's now possible to zoom in on photos and videos you publish, you can select words that you do not want to appear in the comments of your posts.
After seeing the success that the Snapchat had and, then, the Instagram Stories, something inspired by your opponent, which is to capture and publish photos and videos that are in the air for 24 hours. Instagram currently displays a new look, a black and white interface that helps in the definition of photos and videos, since in the past it was more colorful.
The route from 2010 to 2016 on Instagram, was always marked by many changes, controversial and always with the number of users increasing circumstantially. After spreading to Android, it gained more popularity and caused controversy among iOS users, since everyone understood that it was an iPhone exclusivity at the time. But today Instagram has evolved enough that it even launched applications to help with photos, such as Boomerang and others. We believe that the social network goes even further and new tools will still be added.
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