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Yeah, but we're talking about 2012. Instagram was small and wasn't making any money, and feature-wise it barely resembled what it is today. Going just by US sit
by snovymgodym 2y ago
Yeah, but we're talking about 2012. Instagram was small and wasn't making any money, and feature-wise it barely resembled what it is today. Going just by US sites in 2012 Twitter, Tumblr, Snapchat, Google+, Pinterest, YouTube, and Reddit were all large competing social networks (or social network adjacent sites/apps).
Seems like in your analogy there were plenty of grocery stores left.
- immibis 2y agoDidn't they give kids a free VPN service then use it to spy on which apps they used the most, to predict who their next competitor would be?
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- sudahtigabulan 2y agoThey did, apparently since 2016. https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/
- input_sh 2y agoThat's because it was still an iOS-exclusive. People forget that the Android app and the aquisition announcement came out like one week apart. The basic web version didn't come out until half a year later. My point is it already had a solid rich, influencer-y userbase + was about to become available on more platforms. Aquisition definitely had an impact on the user growth, but the growth itself was already inevitable.