Instagram is a photo- and video-sharing platform on the internet. Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the app’s cofounders, introduced it in 2010, and Meta Platforms, Inc., Facebook’s parent company, now owns it. Instagram, one of the most popular social media sites in the world, will reach two billion monthly active users in 2022. Menlo Park, California serves as the company’s corporate headquarters.
Features and details
The Instagram service is rather simple. It emphasises posts with pictures and/or quick videos. These postings are located on a user’s profile and can either be seen by everyone on Instagram or just the user’s followers. The user’s permanent feed or their “Stories,” a separate part where content is kept for a longer period of time, are the two primary publishing options.
Before vanishing (unless specifically archived) in 24 hours. A camera can feed video directly to the platform while going “live,” if that is another option.
Users can communicate with one another privately using direct messages (also known as DMs), where they can share both permanent and disappearing media (similair to Snapchat). Users can “follow” one another, and the accounts they are following are all collected into a single feed. On the platform, users may also view a mixed selection of trending postings and browse by topic or hashtag.
