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Instagram is a mobile, desktop, and Internet basedphoto sharing application and service that allows users to share pictures and videos either publicly or privately. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2. OSoperating system. A version for Android devices was released two years later, in April 2. November 2. 01. 2, and apps for Windows 1. Mobile and Windows 1. April 2. 01. 6 and October 2. Instagram lets registered users upload photos or videos to the service. Users can apply various digital filters to their images, and add locations through geotags. They can add hashtags to their posts, linking the photos up to other content on Instagram featuring the same subject or overall topic. Users can connect their Instagram account to other social media profiles, enabling them to share photos to those profiles as well. Originally, a distinctive feature of Instagram was its confining of photos to a square this was changed in August 2. In June 2. 01. 2, an Explore tab was introduced, showing users a variety of media, including popular photos and photos taken at nearby locations, trending tags and places, channels for recommended videos, and curated content. Support for videos was originally launched in June 2. Instagram later adding support for widescreen and longer videos. Private messaging, called Instagram Direct, was launched with basic photo sharing functionality in December 2. In August 2. 01. 6, Instagram introduced a Stories feature, letting users add photos to a story, with the content disappearing after 2. Instagram added live video functionality to Stories in November 2. April 2. 01. 7, and face filters in May 2. After its launch in 2. Instagram rapidly gained popularity, with one million registered users in two months, 1. April 2. 01. 7. Its users have uploaded over 4. October 2. 01. 5. As of April 2. 01. Instagram Direct has 3. June 2. 01. 7update, the Instagram Stories functionality has over 2. Instagram was acquired by Facebook in April 2. US1 billion in cash and stock. The popularity of Instagram has resulted in widespread community engagement, including dedicated trends, in which users post specific types of photos on specific days of the week with a hashtag representing a common theme. Instagram has received positive reviews for its i. OS app, and it has been named one of the most influential social networks in the world. However, the company has been the subject of criticism, most notably for policy and interface changes, allegations of censorship, and illegal or improper content uploaded by users. Minecraft Flans Mod 1.5 1.7.4. History. The login and sign up screen for the Instagram app on the i. Phone as of April 2. Instagram began development in San Francisco, when Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger chose to focus their multi featured HTML5 check in project, Burbn, on mobile photography. As Krieger reasoned, Burbn became too similar to Foursquare, and both realized that it had gone too far. Burbn was then pivoted to become more focused on photo sharing. The word Instagram is a portmanteau of instant camera and telegram. On March 5, 2. Systrom closed a 5. Baseline Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz while working on Burbn. Josh Riedel joined the company in October as Community Manager,1. Shayne Sweeney joined in November as an engineer,1. Jessica Zollman joined as a Community Evangelist in August 2. Kevin Systrom posted the first photo to Instagram on July 1. The photo shows a dog in Mexico and Systroms girlfriends foot the photo has been enhanced using Instagrams X PRO2 filter. On October 6, 2. 01. Instagram i. OS app was officially released through the App Store. In February 2. 01. Instagram had raised 7 million in Series A funding from a variety of investors, including Benchmark Capital, Jack Dorsey, Chris Sacca through Capital fund, and Adam DAngelo. The deal valued Instagram at around 2. On April 3, 2. 01. Instagram was released for Android phones,2. In March 2. 01. 2, The Wall Street Journal reported that Instagram was raising a new round of financing that would value the company at 5. Instagram raised 5. The same month, Facebook bought Instagram for 1 billion in cash and stock,2. Britains Office of Fair Trading approved the deal on August 1. August 2. 2, 2. 01. Federal Trade Commission in the U. S. closed its investigation, allowing the deal to proceed. On September 6, 2. Instagram and Facebook was officially closed. The deal, which was made just prior to Facebooks scheduled IPO, cost about a quarter of Facebooks cash on hand, according to figures documented at the end of 2. The deal was for a company characterized as having lots of buzz but no business model, and the price was contrasted with the 3. Yahoo paid for Flickr in 2. Mark Zuckerberg noted that Facebook was committed to building and growing Instagram independently, in contrast to its past practices. According to Wired, the deal netted Systrom 4. The exact purchase price was 3. In November 2. 01. Instagram launched website profiles, allowing anyone to see users feeds from their web browsers. However, the website interface was limited in functionality, with notable omissions including the lack of a search bar, a news feed, and the ability to upload photos. In February 2. 01. June 2. 01. 5, the website was redesigned to offer bigger photos. On October 2. 2, 2. Nokia World event held in Abu Dhabi, Systrom confirmed the upcoming release of the official Instagram app for Windows Phone,4. Nokia and the public to develop an app for the platform. The app was released as a beta version on November 2. Instagram spokesperson stated that Were not finished, and our team will continue developing the Windows Phone app to keep releasing features and bringing you the best Instagram possible. In April 2. 01. 6, Instagram upgraded the app to Windows 1. Mobile, adding support for video and direct messages,4. October 2. 01. 6 that extended the app to Windows 1. The Android app has received two major exclusive updates. The first, introduced in March 2. Android devices. 4. The Verge wrote that the development team had tested the app on devices not for sale in the United States, particularly low end models like Samsung Galaxy Y, in an effort to improve the app for its userbase located outside the U. S. Engineering manager Philip Mc. Allister told The Verge that More than 6. US, and Android covers roughly half of total Instagram users. The second update, introduced in April 2. Internet connection, and users can comment, like, save media, and unfollow users, all of which will take effect once the user goes back online. At the time of the announcement, it was reported that 8. Instagrams 6. 00 million users are located outside the U. S., and while the aforementioned functionality was live at announcement, Instagram also announced its intention to make more features available offline in the following months, and that they were exploring an i.