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5. Well, I was inspired to Google, she..

Now more popular than Twitter, Instagram takes risk and deletes feature

Instagram can’t be caught.

Data released this week shows that, for the first time, Instagram had more users than Twitter, marking a huge jump in the photo-sharing app’s popularity.

In just six months, Instagram — a free mobile app which allows users to take and post photos that resemble Polaroids — skyrocketed to 7.3 million daily users in August from fewer than 900,000 in March. Twitter, which already had about 5.5 million daily users in March, trailed behind in August with 6.9 million users.

Instagram’s having a good month; a few weeks ago, it was purchased by Facebook for $741 million, hit a milestone of 5 billion photos shared, and now is apparently competing with, and beating, the giants of the mobile app world.

Wired explains that its popularity comes from its status as a “mobile purebred.” Unlike Twitter which maintains a website, Instagram is mobile-first and mobile-only, and is reaping the benefits of a large shift in traffic to mobile devices.

http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2012/09/28/now-more-popular-than-twitter-instagram-takes-risk-and-deletes-feature/

So, Malia and Sasha did go with their parents to Africa? I was looking all over for mention of them going and could find nothing. Just Michelle and PBO.. now I see them in this pic, I think!