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Presenters:
• Hareem Nauman (36)
• Maryam Hameed (08)
• Subhan Rafique (05)
• Usman Murtaza (30)
• Aqsa Shehzadi (46)
Introduction
• Instagram is a free photo and video
sharing app available on iPhone and
Android. People can upload photos
or videos to our service and share
them with their followers or with a
select group of friends. They can also
view, comment and like posts shared
by their friends on Instagram.
Anyone 13 and older can create an
account by registering an email
address and selecting a username.
What is the brief history of Instagram?
• Burbn.
• The first prototype of Instagram was a
web app called Burbn, which was
inspired by Systrom's love of fine
whiskeys and bourbons. The Instagram
app was launched on Oct. 6, 2010, and
racked up 25,000 users in one day.
How did Instagram get its first users?
• Picked up by influencers.
• Among the 25,000 users who
downloaded the app on the first day
was Jack Dorsey, the founder of
Twitter. He tweeted about the app to
over 1M of his followers and many of
which check it out. Among the early
adopters, you also had Justin Bieber,
Apple's Phil Schiller and other high-
profiles
How Did Instagram Become So Successful?
• Instagram's focus on photo sharing and
commenting led to a strong degree of user
engagement and word-of-mouth marketing as
users encouraged their friends and family to
join. Its simple interface and popular features
also made it widely liked. This combination led
users, who notoriously have short attention
spans, to scroll through many posts and
become addicted, in a sense, to using the app.
Why Was Instagram Originally Created?
• Instagram was originally a photo-
sharing app that featured several filters
and enhancements for photos taken on
a mobile phone. It combined features
from the then-popular app
FourSquare, whereby users could tag
photos with people, locations, or other
information to share Its creator, Kevin
Systrom, has said he developed the
app due to his love of photography
Features Notifications and
Messenger