This post has been written by María Rodríguez - 3ºA, school year 2016/17
Instagram is
a programme you can install onto your smartphone. This programme allows
you to take pictures, apply some special effects to them, and share them with
the other Instagram users. You can receive comments and likes for them.
Instagram is
also a social network, you can have friends, follow people and people can
follow you.
Instagram was
created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010, and in
January 2011 they added hashtags to help users discover pictures they could find
interesting.
The service
quickly gained popularity with over 100 million active users in 2012 , and nowadays it has about 1000 millions of active users.In April 2012, Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion.
On December 13th 2013, Instagram added Direct, a feature that allows users to send photos to
specific people directly from the app.
On October
22nd 2015, Instagram launched Boomerang, an app where you can shoot a one second burst
of five photos. These pictures are turned into a silent video that plays forwards and then reverses in a loop.
The popstar and Disney Channel actriz Selena
Gomez is the most popular instagrammer with more 101M followers.The footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has 83.8M followers.
Well done, María! Incredible work!!
