The Facebook-owned app announced on its blog that the platform has gained 100 million followers in just nine months yesterday (10 Dec).
Instagram has surpassed both Twitter and Tumblr in the amount of active users they have on their platform. According to a Statista report published in November 2014, Twitter and Tumblr have 284 million and 230 million active users respectively,while Facebook leads the way with 1.35 billion users. Google+ and LinkedIn have just over 300 million users.
The boost in user numbers comes in the same year Instagram announced that it would introduce ads into the app for the first time. Read full story ›
Source: Marketing Week
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