Instagram was released on this date in 2010. Here are 10 things you might not know about Instagram:
The first photograph to be posted on Instagram was a picture of a Dog belonging to one of the co-founders.
The name Instagram is a combination of the words “instant camera” and “telegram.”
Initially, it was just for sharing photographs, but it became possible to share a 15 second video in June 2013.
On any given day, 80 million photographs are shared on Instagram. That’s about 700 a second.
Instagram gets 1.2 billion likes every day.
Instagram is the 8th most visited website in the world.
I’d like to be able to tell you who the most followed person is, but every source I looked at gave a different answer. Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez and footballer Cristiano Ronaldo were all alleged to be the most followed person. No doubt they all have been at some point but it changes so often it’s impossible to say, I guess. Same for the most followed brand, which could be National Geographic, or Nike, or some other flavour of the month entirely.
As for people sharing pictures of food, the most popular cuisines are Pizza, Sushi and steak.
On the day it launched as an iPhone app, Instagram gained 25,000 users, and had reached a million by December. The Android version did even better – it was downloaded over a million times in less than 12 hours after its release in April 2012.
In 2012, Ellie Goulding released a music video for her song Anything Could Happen, which consisted entirely of Instagram photographs representing words or lyrics from the song.
Character birthday
She was known for having a crush on the superhero Power Blaster, despite never having met him, for which her colleagues ribbed her mercilessly. Eventually, she worked out Powerblaster’s true identity, and knowing he was spoken for, was able to move on and married a man named Gilbert.
Secrets and Skies
Jack Ward, President of Innovia, owes his life twice over to the enigmatic superhero, dubbed Power Blaster by the press. No-one knows who Power Blaster is or where he comes from - and he wants it to stay that way.
Scientist Desi Troyes has developed a nuclear bomb to counter the ever present threat of an asteroid hitting the planet. When Ward signs the order giving the go ahead for a nuclear test on the remote Bird Island, he has no inkling of Troyes' real agenda, and that he has signed the death warrants of millions of people.
Although the island should have been evacuated, there are people still there: some from the distant continent of Classica; protesters opposed to the bomb test; and Innovians who will not, or cannot, use their communication devices.
Power Blaster knows he must stop the bomb from hitting the island. He also knows it may be the last thing he ever does.
Meanwhile in Innovia, Ward and his staff gather to watch the broadcast of the test. Nobody, not even Troyes himself, has any idea what is about to happen.
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