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Best week ever for Instagram?
Last week, the popular photo sharing application released on the Android platform and added 1 million new users in the first 12 hours.
Today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced an aquision of the company for ….wait for it….
One. Billion. Dollars.
Instagram’s reported value just last week before the Android launch was $500 million, which means the Android release had to happen for the Facebook acquisition to make sense. “Who’s Section 8 now, iPhone snobs!” (say all the Android users.) Even so — that sound you hear? It’s iPhone snobs delete the app from their phone. The sound, it’s deafening.
Why one billion dollars, though? Mark Zuckerberg could have bought it for less, but he said he wanted a nice, round, evil genius number.
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I totally think the android announcement (release) was just so that they could get the Billion from FaceBook. And now IG is going to be ruined and all Facebook-y. Boo.
Not that I’m bitter about Mark and his evil genius plan or something.
Twitter: Sarahjordan
I swear, if Facebook ruins Instagram the way they did Gowalla, I’m done with Facebook.
I’m a little pissy that I got 5 good days of Instagram before it went all to crap with FB. I went to bed on Thursday so smug and filtered and woke up today to find this. By the way, there’s a whole section 8 portion on my last Friday’s Random Musings, just for you love.
And thanks for adding the AP voice to this announcement because now I will NEVER read the announcement like a normal person again.
Twitter: mytimeasmom
He better not screw it up. I love Instagram.
Dude, the cat? Makes it.
One bee-lee-on dollars! Facebook is taking over the social media world. It’s a monopoly I tell you
Twitter: euregirlsandboy
I was one of those that jumped on Instagram as soon as it appeared on Android last week. It seemed pretty buggy to start with though.
And Liz is right – the cat really makes that picture!
Twitter: jmomiller
I really hope they don’t change it!!!