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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

On October 6, 2010, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger released Instagram on the App Store. By the end of the first day it had 25,000 users. Eighteen months later, Facebook bought it for $1 billion.

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Why this date?

  • Instagram hit 1 million users in two months.
  • Facebook acquired Instagram in April 2012 for $1 billion in cash and stock.
  • The first post is Systrom's photo of a dog by a taco stand in Mexico.
  • Instagram has over 2 billion monthly active users today.

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