Instagram is a social network

Instagram, part of the Facebook company, is a website and free mobile app to exchange digital photos and videos with a play time of up to 60 seconds. The photos and videos can be digitally filtered and exchanged on social networking sites, such as Instagram itself.

A video shows the playing time, but can not be navigated to a certain time / fragment. The video can not be paused.

The functionality of the website is more limited than the app. First, upload only via the app guaranteed instagram followers. Additionally, for example, only the app can get a list of the pictures / videos of an account with the same upload date and accompanying text.

In April 2012 Facebook Instagram bought with its 12 employees for around $ 1 billion in cash and shares, and it was intended to leave the company under independent leadership.

At that time, there were over 30 million registered Instagram website users for photos. The acquisition was approved in August 2012 by the US Federal Trade Commission.

The program, launched on October 6, 2010, was initially supported only for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Starting April 2012, it also worked on Android 2.2 or later Android smartphones. In November 2013, it also came to Windows Phone. Instagram is distributed through the App Store, Google Play, and Windows Store. April 2013 support was added to uploading videos. However, this is not possible on all phones.