Amazon Quiz (August 8): In which year was this app launched?
2005
2015
2018
2010
Answer: 2010
Instagram is a photo and video sharing social networking website that was started in 2010 by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger and was later purchased by the American company Facebook Inc., currently known as Meta Platforms.
Users can upload media to the app, which can then be altered with filters and grouped using hashtags and geographical labelling. Posts can be shared with the general public or with pre-approved followers. People can view trending content, like photographs, and follow other users to add their content to a personal feed.
To match the screen width of the iPhone at the time, Instagram initially distinguished itself by enabling content to be framed only in a square (1:1) aspect ratio of 640 pixels. This limitation was eased in 2015 with an upgrade to 1080 pixels.
It also featured messaging tools, the ability to also include multiple photographs or videos in a single post, and a Stories feature, which allowed users to upload their content to a sequential feed, with each post available to others for 24 hours, similar to its major competitor Snapchat. As of January 2019, 500 million users used Stories on a daily basis.
Instagram was first released for iOS in October 2010 and quickly gained popularity, with one million registered users in two months, ten million in a year, and one billion by June 2018. Facebook Inc. purchased the service in April 2012 for around $1 billion in cash and equity.
The Android version was released in April 2012, with a feature-limited desktop interface released in November 2012, a Fire OS app released in June 2014, and a Windows 10 app released in October 2016. Over 40 billion images have been uploaded as of October 2015. Instagram has been praised for its success and influence, but it has also been chastised for its bad impact on teen mental health, policy and interface changes, purported censorship, and illegal and improper content submitted by users.
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