3 Billion Users Now Use Instagram Monthly
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/24/1527241/3-billion-users-now-use-instagram-monthly
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> Instagram now has 3 billion monthly active users, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday on his Instagram account. "What an incredible community we've built here," Zuckerberg posted on his Instagram channel.
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> The figure is a major milestone for the photo-sharing app, which the social media company acquired in 2012 for $1 billion. Meta last disclosed Instagram's user figures in October 2022 when Zuckerberg said during an earnings call that the app had crossed 2 billion monthly users.
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/24/instagram-now-has-3-billion-monthly-active-users.html
Re: Half of the entire world uses it? (Score:3)
How many of these "users" are bots?
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Probably a good 75% of them are bots.
I mean, the world only has about 8 billion people in it, the vast majority of whom don't have internet access and/or devices that can use Instagram.
IG has some serious problems (Score:3)
I'm a glassworker.
In the past, glassworkers have built huge followings on IG and used them to sell their work.
Some of the work was "functional", pipes used for smoking cannabis.
Evidently some advertisers don't want to be associated with "illegal drug paraphernalia", even in states where cannabis is legal, so accounts got banned.
This resulted in lost sales for some very talented and hard-working artists.
But wait, it gets worse.
Other artists made stuff like pendants, marbles, beer glasses, wine glasses, sculptures, etc...no pipes.
Many of their accounts also got banned because some of their designs kinda looked similar to designs commonly used in pipes.
The stupid robot that bans accounts can't seem to tell the difference.
Depending on social media to keep your business alive is a dangerous gamble. A small change in the rules can destroy years of work
FTFY (Score:4, Informative)
"What an incredible privacy scraping tool we've built here,"
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Never posted on it. I know, cool story bro.
Re: FTFY (Score:2)
3 billion bots and people who didn't know they are interacting with the same company as Facebook...