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guelo
on Dec 28, 2012
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AppData says that Instagram may have lost 25% of u...
I'm kind of surprised by how small Instagram is. Facebook paid a billion dollars for those 12 million users.
antninja
on Dec 28, 2012
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They paid a billion dollar to prevent Twitter from having a decent photo service. Facebook doesn't need Instagram. Twitter did.
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Those are daily active users. Monthly active users are around 43.6 million.
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http://www.appdata.com/apps/facebook/124024574287414-instagr...
diego
on Dec 28, 2012
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That's more than 1% of Facebook's users. At the time, Facebook was worth 100B.
jpdevereaux
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But also consider that many if not most of those users were already on Facebook.
speeder
on Dec 28, 2012
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And they had reason to LEAVE facebook (or at least, stop being so active on it, and concentrate on twitter).
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