Instagram Uploads Surpassed 10 Million on Thanksgiving
"We're thrilled to see people use Instagram to share their holidays. Whether celebrating with friends and family or sharing photos with them halfway across the globe, we’re excited to see the intimacy and immediacy of the Instagram experience bring us all closer together over this holiday season," Instagram stated in a blog post.
Delicious fried turkey before applying an Instagram filter.
Facebook acquired Instagram earlier this years for a cool $1 billion. In doing so, Instagram was able to add 10 million additional users in just a few days, bringing to the total to 40 million back in April 2012. Instagram, if you're in the dark, is a social sharing app that takes perfectly fine looking photos and makes them look, well,
Delicious fried turkey after applying Instagram's "Waldo" filter.
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I'm still flabbergasted at the amount of money FB paid for a thing that kinda ruins your pictures. The flood of artsy yet boring food-shots this holiday was definitely annoying too. Although I gotta admit, if the presentation is interesting, I don't mind it. I still have several friends in Japan from my time there, and they like to post instagrams of their food for some reason, and I like seeing all the weird and interesting things they eat. But I wish I could see them in their actual color, rather than through Instagram's crappy filters. |
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Hooray, now we can all view our Thanksgiving dinners through the eyes of our ancestors a couple decades ago with Polaroid and retro film effects! It's like having dinner with your relatives in their own era! .. not. |
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9.5 million of those pictures are of food . |
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