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> When Facebook acquired it, Instagram was a photo sharing app that had 13 employees. Sure, but it was a serious threat to Facebook with hordes of especially y
by Cthulhu_ 2y ago
> When Facebook acquired it, Instagram was a photo sharing app that had 13 employees.
Sure, but it was a serious threat to Facebook with hordes of especially younger people moving away from FB in favor of more activity on Instagram, which at that time had evolved from "just" a photo making/sharing app to a social network.
- basch 2y agoNo. Mobile Camera Apps were a threat to non mobile first facebook. ("Instagram is a photo service in a sea of other photo services.") Any one of them could have taken off and eaten facebook's lunch. Instagram was the winner in a sea of camera apps because facebook threw unlimited resources into the hip app of the moment.