Instagram (photo wall, abbreviated as ins or IG) is a social application running on the mobile terminal, which shares the pictures you take at any time with each other in a fast, wonderful and interesting way.

Application introduction

The name Instagram comes from Instamatic, which is the serial name of a low-cost portable fool camera sold by Kodak from 1963. This series is very popular, and its last model is still on sale until 1988.

Instagram is a mobile application that supports iOS, Windows Phone and Android platforms. It allows users to capture their own life memories in any environment, choose the filter style of pictures (more than 65,438+00 apron effects such as Lomo/Nashville/Apollo/Pop Rocket) and share them on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, foursquare or Sina Weibo platform with one click. More than just taking photos, Instagram, as a lightweight but very interesting App, incorporates many social elements on the mobile side, including the establishment, reply, sharing and collection of friends, which is the greatest value of Instagram as a service rather than an application.

201April 12, Facebook announced the acquisition of online photo service provider Instagram for 10 billion dollars. Stimulated by this news, on the morning of April 1 1, Instagram topped the list of free applications in Apple App Store for the first time. 14 In April, the number of users of Instagram, a photo sharing application, reached 40 million, an increase of 10 million within 10 days. 201September 12, mark zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Facebook, said at Techcrunch Disrupt conference on Tuesday that the number of registered users of mobile phone photo beautification application Instagram has exceeded 10 billion.

20 12 1 month, then US President Barack Obama used Instagram. 201810/on October 23rd, Instagram launched a name tag, which can make people pay attention to other people in real life quickly.