Instagram is bought by Facebook

Instagram, the most famous mobile service that allows us to take photos, edit them, add effects and share them on social media, has been acquired today by the almighty facebook. Without a doubt, a very important move if we consider that it was one of the most downloaded applications, both for iPhone and now for Android, after what the launch will take place for the latter about a week ago. Mark Zuckerberg has been in charge of making it public through his Facebook account. 1.000 million is what it has cost them.

Ironically, the means by which everyone has found out has not been Facebook, but Twitter, which has allowed the news about the purchase of Instagram by Mark Zuckerberg's company to become a Trending Topic for several terms: Instagram, "Mark Zuckerberg" y "Billion".

The reason for the purchase is given by Mark himself in his Facebook post. «For years we have focused on creating the best platform for uploading and sharing photos with friends and family. Now, we want to work more closely with the team of Instagram to also be able to offer the best experience when it comes to sharing photos ”, thus giving the creators of the famous application the credit for having achieved such success.

1.000 million, or a billion, if we use the American language, is what Facebook will pay to Instagram in exchange for acquiring the application and the team of workers of the company that runs Kevin Systrom, former Twitter fellow. This amount is paid through different means and Facebook actions. This is important news, since the Palo Alto company had never acquired a service with so many users or for such a large number.

Instagram will always be Instagram

Both Zuckerberg and Systrom have emphasized that the service will not changer, it will remain the same, with the same functionalities. That is, users can continue to share their photos on Twitter and other social networks, they will not exclude them because they are direct competition. Nor will it be required to be a user of Facebook or log in to use the application.

What we can hope for is that, at least in the long run, a special integration de Instagram en the social network. In addition, the idea is that all the experience of the team of Instagram to improve the options offered Facebook to share photos. And we may even see how the mobile applications of the latter integrate Instagram inside it to apply filters and retouching before uploading the photo.

In any case, the application of Instagram It will continue exactly the same as it has been up to now, and it seems that it is not in the plans of either of the two that the development of this be interrupted or influenced by that of the social network. We will see if we soon find Facebook updates that have something to do with Instagram. Without a doubt, the news of the month.


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  1.   Doroide said

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