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> The vast majority of the new users likely first heard about Instagram from the news of the Facebook acquisition Really? You mean all those people had never s
by jack-r-abbit 15y ago
> The vast majority of the new users likely first heard about Instagram from the news of the Facebook acquisition
Really? You mean all those people had never seen an Instagram photo cross their FB or Twitter stream before that? Really?
- nextparadigms 15y agoI have a hard time believing that most of them started joining Instagram once Facebook bought it. I'd say at least 80-90% of them came from Android. They were signing up at a rate of 1 million per day before Facebook bought them, and then it continued.
- rhizome 15y agoMaybe, but this could also simply be a statement that Instagram has now learned FB's user-counting methodology.
- rollypolly 15y agoI take it that all the HN-ers deleting the app after the purchase hasn't quite made a dent in their user count. ;)
- rmcrob 15y agoThey probably haven't subtracted us from the count.
- jack-r-abbit 15y agoJust like all the iOS whiners that threatened to bail when the app hit Android. :)
- jimmyvanhalen 15y agoI'm sure the publicity helped. The news was on front page of cnn, fortune, usatoday, etc.
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