We'll never truly know if instagram could've stuck around had it not been acquired. Twitter is an indispensable communications medium that has more than 1 use

We'll never truly know if instagram could've stuck around had it not been acquired. Twitter is an indispensable communications medium that has more than 1 use case (read news, talk to friends, overthrow a government, etc). Thus ads makes sense (and I would even pay a low, yearly fee to keep it around). Snapchat is interesting, but $100 million interesting?