Instagram turned five recently, so we thought this would be a good time to take a look back at some of its more notable moments and how it’s evolved since 2010. How has the platform grown into one of the largest and most important social networks? How have brands found their place there? And what might be next for Instagram?
A photo-sharing social media platform is born
Instagram launched on Oct. 6, 2010, and by December of that same year it had already reached 1 million users. The hashtags that Instagram is so well-known for now weren’t introduced until January 2011. Their original purpose remains the same: to help users share and discover their photos with one another…
