Your photo-sharing service in numbers

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.