As we all know Instagram is the most popular image and video sharing application through mobile devices. Even though most of us use this application quite often, we are not familiar with some of its exciting facts. Lets take a look at some of those:
The Instagram application had already received 430000 pre-registrations by the time it was finally launched on 3rd April, 2013 on Android platform. The application was downloaded over a million times in less then 12 hours of its release.
Facebook acquired Instagram in April 2012 for 1 billion USD in cash and stock.
60 million photos are uploaded on Instagram each day.
USA, Japan and Brazil are three countries that use Instagram the most. 40% of Instagram’s total users are from USA.
Instagram added video upload functionality in June, 2013. 5 million videos were uploaded within 24 hours of its release.
New York is the most geo-tagged city and Times Square is the most geo-tagged place.
Number of likes per day is 1.2 billion.