Instagram App Has Amazing First Week

Last week we profiled an amazing new app from the folks at Burbn, Inc. called Instagram. At that time we said the photo sharing app wasn't a "game changer, but it's fun." Apparently, many agree. In its first week in the App Store, the app has been downloaded 100,000 times! As TechCrunch reported:

Now, 100,000 may not seem that impressive in a world where Facebook has 500 million users, but again, that’s after just one week in existence and only being available on the iPhone. You can’t even sign up on their website yet, you need to get the app to be a user. As a point of comparison, it took new media darling Foursquare seven months to get 60,000 users.

This is amazing news for a company that definitely deserves the success. What makes Instagram unique is how easy the app makes it to share photos with your friends on Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, Tumblr or Foursquare. You can also tell your friends what the photo is and where it was taken. Photos can then be rated by other users of the Instagram app.

Photos can be altered within the app using one of 11 different custom filters that will change the photo’s color, mood, border or tonality. As you add photos to your social networking feeds, they become cataloged within the app itself, which is nice. You can also review which photos are the most popular among all Instagram users. The free Instagram app is available today in the App Store. And yes, you should definitely download it and join the 100,000 who already have.

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