Instagram surges past Twitter to become 2nd biggest social network
Instagram hit a milestone this week, logging more than 400 million monthly users, solidly surpassing rival Twitter.
Instagram, a five-year-old site for posting and photos and video online, has solidly surpassed rival Twitter to claim the No. 2 spot in the social networking world - behind parent company Facebook.
"Given that Facebook owns Instagram, that certainly makes them the king of the social networking mountain," said Dan Olds, an analyst with The Gabriel Consulting Group. "Instagram is aimed squarely at mobile devices, and that makes it very easy for users to shoot and post very quickly. It also has the patina of 'cool' with hip users -- mainly arising from young users adopting it as their own."
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