Rakshith,
the creator of gramfeed, pinged us this morning after noticing the milestone
from Instagram’s API. The 40 millionth user is valentinoelbuti. It seems at the
time of this post’s writing, Instagram has exactly 40,026,379 users — or
rather, roughly 5% of Facebook’s active user base.
It
took Facebook four years to hit 100 million users. Instagram is on track to
beat that number. The photo sharing service launched in October 2010 and saw 1
million users by December. It passed 10 million users the following September.
Now, in April 2012, Instagram is growing at an incredible pace with 10 million
new users in essentially this month alone. If nothing else, it shows that
Android’s massive user base cannot be ignored.
Sure,
Instagram received a massive amount of press late last week, but it also just
became available to Android’s 500 million users. The timing was perfect. The
vast majority of the new users likely first heard about Instagram from the news
of the Facebook acquisition and Instagram was available for download in Google
Play as if it had always been there.
Facebook
says Instagram will remain a standalone photo app, which is great news for its
users fearing a hostile takeover. However, it’s hard to imagine Facebook not
wanting to tap Instagram’s massive user base. After all, Facebook needs to
recoup the $1 billion it spent buying the start-up somehow.
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