This is also the fourth application under Facebook to reach 1 billion monthly active users. The first three applications are Facebook, WhatsApp, and Messenger. Facebook CEO O Zuckerberg announced in June last year that the number of monthly active users of Facebook has reached 2 billion.
Instagram's monthly active users grew very rapidly. In September last year, Instagram announced that the current monthly active users reached 800 million, and the daily active users reached 500 million. Compared with its Chinese counterparts, the number of monthly active users in Instagram is similar to that of WeChat. Tencent said in its first quarter financial report this year that the combined monthly active accounts of WeChat and WeChat reached 1.04 billion, an increase of 10.9% over the same period last year.
Instagram also introduces its long video service IGTV, which will allow users to upload videos up to 1 hour.
Instagram was released in October 2010. It allows users to take photos with their smartphones and add different filter effects to the photos, and then social network services such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr, or Instagram servers.
Instagram's name is taken from the combination of the two words "instant" and "telegram". Because the founder was inspired by instant imaging cameras and believed that sharing of photos between people was "like sending telegram messages with wires", he combined the two words into the software name.