Your photo-sharing service in numbers

fuad lawal

October 6, 2015 8:15 PM

Instagram was built for hipsters in San Francisco, and today, they have over 400 million users in just five years.

Instagram

Instagram is five years old today, and its safe to say it has no small beginnings. On day 1, they had 25,000 sign-ups. Today, they have overtaken Twitter to have over 400 million users. Even by tech standards, this is huge.

Here is Instgram's 5 years in numbers:

Instagram had only 6 engineers in 2011 up until it was purchased by Facebook in 2012. Consider the fact that they had about 10 million users at the time.

Facebook paid $1 billion for Instagram, and its 13 employees. Though the deal was around $300 million in cash and the rest in Facebook stock. To put it simply, thats $77 million paid for the company per employee.

There are about 40 billion photos which have been shared on Instagram; which works out as roughly 100 photos per active account.

Instagram gets 3.5 billion likes every single day.

The most liked image is Kendall Jenner’s heart-shaped hair selfie, which got 3.1 million likes in less than five months.

On average, more than 80 million photos are uploaded to Instagram on a daily basis.

Taylor Swift has the largest follower-count with 49 million followers. That means over 10% of people on Instagram follow Swift.

To describe the last 5 years Instagram in one word - Amazing.

fuad lawal