But once I started using Instagram, I discovered something surprising: Instagram has improved on the features it took from Snapchat. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyInstagram has thus triggered an echo — it feels like Facebook. There are bigger networks: Facebook has nearly two billion users a month, and two instant-messaging apps owned by Facebook, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, have grown past the one-billion-user mark. Advertisement Continue reading the main story“My favorite thing to ask the team is, how large do you think Instagram will be eventually?” he said. For example, Mr. Systrom and his co-founder, Mike Krieger, realized that one of the primary holdups was their own decision-making.

Source: New York Times April 26, 2017 13:00 UTC