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Which social media platform, launched in 2010, became famous for square photo posts and the use of hashtags to discover content?
Answer
Instagram launched on October 6, 2010, as a photo-sharing app with a signature square image format and robust hashtag discovery system. It was acquired by Facebook in 2012 for approximately $1 billion and grew to over a billion users.
💡 Did you know?
Instagram's first-ever photo, posted by co-founder Kevin Systrom, was a picture of a stray dog near a taco stand in Mexico.
Other options people guess
- Tumblr
- Flickr
Topics
- social-media
- 2010s
- technology
- photography
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