Today, the app is valued at $20 billion, and its users send 700 million snaps daily
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 6:18 am
Instagram
How did this app change the world? It still has no worthy competitors when it comes to posting photos online. Instagram has managed to turn more than four hundred million users into avid photographers. More than 16 billion photos have been uploaded to the service - at least twice as many as any other photo service, and tens of millions of new photos are added to Instagram every day.
It took Instagram only a month to register its first million sweden whatsapp number list users (Twitter, for example, took two years). And when the Android version of the service was released in April 2012, it was downloaded more than a million times in just one day.
Instagram is called the most “stupid” social network (this, by the way, can be argued), but this does not prevent popular bloggers from releasing entire books based on their photo albums, artists from publishing their works on Instagram, and photographers from posting quite serious reportage photos. At first, Instagram really was just an application for photos of food, cats and endless selfies, but the further it goes, the “deeper” and more diverse the content on the platform becomes.
For many users, especially young people, Instagram is the most convenient and simple way to record what is happening in life and show it to other people. In addition, it is thanks to Instagram that such a method of processing photos as filters has become popular: no one bothered with this before, but now it has become possible to create the desired atmosphere in a photo with one tap.
WhatsApp
Of course, there were communication apps before WhatsApp, but none of them managed to become as popular as Jan Koum's brainchild. The first reason is convenient authorization by phone number, which was still a novelty in 2010, when the service was just launched. The second is the maximum simplicity of the application. A chat window, a button for attaching files, a list of contacts - the functionality of Whatsapp has always been as laconic as possible, and developers add innovations to the service, such as the ability to leave voice messages, very carefully.
Google Maps
How did this app change the world? It still has no worthy competitors when it comes to posting photos online. Instagram has managed to turn more than four hundred million users into avid photographers. More than 16 billion photos have been uploaded to the service - at least twice as many as any other photo service, and tens of millions of new photos are added to Instagram every day.
It took Instagram only a month to register its first million sweden whatsapp number list users (Twitter, for example, took two years). And when the Android version of the service was released in April 2012, it was downloaded more than a million times in just one day.
Instagram is called the most “stupid” social network (this, by the way, can be argued), but this does not prevent popular bloggers from releasing entire books based on their photo albums, artists from publishing their works on Instagram, and photographers from posting quite serious reportage photos. At first, Instagram really was just an application for photos of food, cats and endless selfies, but the further it goes, the “deeper” and more diverse the content on the platform becomes.
For many users, especially young people, Instagram is the most convenient and simple way to record what is happening in life and show it to other people. In addition, it is thanks to Instagram that such a method of processing photos as filters has become popular: no one bothered with this before, but now it has become possible to create the desired atmosphere in a photo with one tap.
Of course, there were communication apps before WhatsApp, but none of them managed to become as popular as Jan Koum's brainchild. The first reason is convenient authorization by phone number, which was still a novelty in 2010, when the service was just launched. The second is the maximum simplicity of the application. A chat window, a button for attaching files, a list of contacts - the functionality of Whatsapp has always been as laconic as possible, and developers add innovations to the service, such as the ability to leave voice messages, very carefully.
Google Maps