Celebrating Instagram 11th Anniversary: The Evolution of Insta From 2010
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Instagram, happy anniversary! Can you imagine Instagram has been around for more than a decade? To remain in the spotlight, you need to change, as the time proceeds ahead. And the platform has accomplished just that. It was founded on October 6th, 2010, by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger as a photo and video-sharing social networking service. It certainly gained attention, with about one million active monthly users in just 2 months. Today, October 6, 2021, marks the 11th anniversary of Instagram. Now in 2021, it has become our daily used social media. So let’s check out the evolution of Instagram.
Instagram has over 1.2 billion active users. With over 50.8% female users and 49.2 male users. The maximum number of users on Insta are from India and the USA. Moreover, 70% of them being under 35 years of age.
Now let us step back and look at how much the service has progressed since October 2010.
Successful Journey of Instagram
October 2010
The Instagram app went live today, accumulating 25,000 people in one day. Kevin Systrom, Instagram’s co-founder, posted the very first Insta picture of his golden retriever lying at a taco cart with the caption “Test.”
2011
Instagram uses hashtags to make it easier for users to find photos of one another. To enable material shine out and engage minded individuals, the application promotes people to make tags that are both unique and meaningful, instead of tagging basic phrases like “picture.” #love is the most popular hashtag on Instagram.
2012
Mark Zuckerberg, the Ceo, and Founder of Facebook acquire Instagram for a billion u.s. dollars, ignoring the indication that the company had no income and just 13 workers.
2013
Recall once the program simply allowed you to post pictures? When Insta introduced the ability to publish movies up to 15 seconds long, everything changed. Instagram has added a Direct Message (DM) function that allows users to send photographs, videos, and messages to another Ig account. Insta reported that its DM function has topped 200 million daily users only 7 months well after launch.
2014
Additional features for editing have been introduced. This enhancement to the photo editing area allows to change visual features like color, contrasts, lights, and depths, as well as apply Insta’s effects, just within the app.
2015
Instagram now permits marketers to post 30-second in-feed advertisements, which is more than double the 15-second limit for consumers.
2016
Instagram has launched its own form of Instagram Stories. Including over 500 million daily uses, Instagram Stories has become one of the app’s top significant parts. Insta has launched Shoppable Tags in order to pave the way for e-commerce. Shopping items can now be tagged in newsfeed postings by companies. When a customer clicks on the tag, they will indeed be brought to the product’s website to check the product and cost, as well as the ability to buy it. Instagram Live is now available, letting people broadcast live lasting approximately 1 hour.
2017
Carousels are the perfect addition for hesitant users because they allow you to publish up to 10 types of content in a single mini-album post.
2018
With the unveiling of IGTV, Instagram puts more emphasis on video. After indeed exceeding 800 million monthly active users in September 2017, Insta reaches a huge achievement, hitting one billion users worldwide.
2019
The app’s experiment with shielding like counts from the audience has expanded globally. As part of a wider effort to improve further user satisfaction.
2020
Instagram has launched Reels, a brief video function that enables users to create and share short, fun videos that are up to 30-seconds long. This feature was to compete with TikTok.
2021
When kids underneath the age of 16 sign up for Instagram for the first time, they will be given a private account; by default, The new Insta version is about the text translations in Insta stories.
Instagram now will offer you a “See translation” message whenever you view a story with overlayed writing in a language other than the one you have specified in your app. Users will be provided with a translating panel after tapping on the choice. It can be used in 90 different languages. added a new feature that will change the way you see your stories and reels.
There is nothing stopping Instagram to be the topmost application. In the coming years, we’ll see it growing and expanding more.
Vanshika Batra
Vanshika is a Law student, blogger. She looks at life with endless possibilities and spreads that idea through her writing. She keeps on meandering and connecting with the world through her ideas framing into sentences.
