Image source, Drew Angerer. WhatsApp came third, and Instagram fourth. YouTube came 9th and Twitter was in 10th place. Related Topics. WhatsApp Apps Instagram Facebook. Published 27 June Facebook is not waiting for its initial public offering to make its first big purchase.
With Instagram, Facebook will get a formidable mobile player — an area that is seen as a weakness for the sprawling social network. Founded two years ago, the service — which lets users share photos and apply stylized filters — has become one of the most downloaded applications on the iPhone , with some 30 million users.
On Monday, both companies expressed their commitment to run Instagram as an independent service. A mentor of Systrom's had warned him that money doesn't solve many of the hardships that come from being human. Do you wake up in the morning everyday struggling on things that feel like they mean something to you, like they are to some end? And most of Instagram wasn't about how much money we made.
It was waking up every single morning, working with awesome people, some of our best friends still to this day were Instagram employees because we met them there, we were in the trenches with them, working on something that we believed. And that's honestly the thing that got us up every morning, working hard at Instagram. It wasn't about the money. Sam Adams founder: Unless you're a sociopath, being happy is better than being rich.
How a cheap plastic camera on a trip to Italy inspired Instagram, according to co-founder Kevin Systrom.
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