Instagram: 5 Million Users, 95 Million Photos, 4 Employees: "
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Instagram, the photo sharing social network for iPhones, continues to grow like crazy.
Here are the latest stats from the company, via founder Kevin Systrom, who talked to TechCrunch:
- 5 million users
- 100,000 new users over the weekend
- 95 million photos (or roughly 19 per user)
- 4 employees
- 2,500 apps using its APIs
- 860,000 new photos per day (or roughly 1 per every 5 users)
- 1.25 million users per employee
- 8 months since launch
Pretty cool!
Instagram definitely has the potential to be one of the big mobile social networks in a few years, and the clones already seem to be cooling down.
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