Friday, August 5, 2011

Instagram: 150 million and climbing photos

In less than one year of existence, Instagram has a very nice brand to celebrate: the millions of pictures published through the service. In fact, they reached 150 million photos on Wednesday. It looks like the faded look of photographs taken with the latest technology even liked (also counted in the millions) Instagram users.


He was curious to see the photo number 150 million? It is this down here, a carousel.

Interestingly, the photo was made by a Brazilian, known as janefot service. She titled the image of "Carousel of life !!!!". The map shows the location where the photo was taken suggests that the record happened in the state of São Paulo, although the exact town is not disclosed.

The Instagram was created on October 6, 2010 by two guys - one is a Brazilian living in the United States. At first pass this year, joined a community of 7 million users, inevitably called instagrammers (a word of absolute simplicity, as you can see). There are 15 pictures published every second through the platform. Doing the math, it gives 54 000 per hour (or 1.3 million per day).

Although the service is growing before our eyes, showed he's not ready for high traffic as last month, when the Canadian singer Justin Bieber posted a picture there. Moments later, the flood of requests the server has made the Instagram off the air. Effect Bieber, as it is called, strikes again.

Personally, I do not see the least bit funny in the photos digitally modified with Instagram. Also dislike the square proportion with which images are placed on the network. But it does not matter, because the service shows which has its captive audience.

The Instagram works through a unique application for iPhone and iPod Touch. Your free download is done in Apple's App Store.