Is Instagram Owned by Facebook 2019
Is Instagram Owned By Facebook
Instagram is a mobile-only photo-sharing application. It expanded from 1 million individuals in January 2011 to 15 million in December 2011. It has 30 million individuals now.
What's wonderful about it is that it is extremely fast - specifically compared to Facebook.
With the Facebook iPhone application, there are 6 displays an individual has to go via prior to a user can in fact take a photo. With Instagram, there is one.
In February, we explained Instagram as the biggest threat to Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg simply revealed the information on Facebook:
I'm delighted to share the news that we've agreed to obtain Instagram and that their skilled group will certainly be joining Facebook.
For many years, we have actually concentrated on developing the very best experience for sharing photos with your friends and family. Now, we'll have the ability to work much more closely with the Instagram group to also supply the very best experiences for sharing beautiful mobile images with people based on your rate of interests.
Our team believe these are various experiences that complement each other. Yet in order to do this well, we need to be conscious regarding keeping as well as improving Instagram's staminas and also attributes instead of simply trying to integrate whatever right into Facebook.
That's why we're devoted to structure as well as growing Instagram independently. Numerous people around the world like the Instagram application as well as the brand name related to it, and also our goal is to help spread this application as well as brand name to much more people.
We believe the reality that Instagram is linked to various other solutions past Facebook is a fundamental part of the experience. We plan on keeping functions like the capacity to post to other social networks, the capacity to not share your Instagrams on Facebook if you want, and the ability to have fans and also comply with individuals independently from your pals on Facebook.
These and also numerous other features are necessary parts of the Instagram experience as well as we recognize that. We will certainly try to learn from Instagram's experience to construct similar functions into our various other products. At the same time, we will attempt to assist Instagram continue to expand by utilizing Facebook's strong engineering team and also facilities.
This is a vital turning point for Facebook since it's the first time we've ever before obtained an item as well as company with many individuals. We do not intend on doing much more of these, if any at all. However giving the best picture sharing experience is one reason that numerous people like Facebook and also we understood it would deserve bringing these 2 companies together.
We're anticipating dealing with the Instagram team and to all of the excellent brand-new experiences we're going to have the ability to develop with each other.