Instagram (commonly abbreviated to IG or Insta) is a website I have never really got into. I opened an account for Jammy Toast to use and it sort of died a death but I am aware it is very popular with many people – mostly younger. Basically, it is a photo and video sharing social networking service owned by Facebook. It was originally created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger and launched on iOS in October 2010. The Android version was released in April 2012, followed by a feature-limited desktop interface in November 2012, a Fire OS app in June 2014, and an app for Windows 10 in October 2016.
The app allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters and organized by hashtags and geographical tagging. Posts can be shared publicly or with pre-approved followers. Users can browse other users’ content by tags and locations and view trending content. Users can like photos and follow other users to add their content to a feed, a function that seems to have been discontinued recently.
Instagram was originally distinguished by only allowing content to be framed in a square (1:1) aspect ratio with 640 pixels to match the display width of the iPhone at the time. In 2015, these restrictions were eased with an increase to 1080 pixels. The service also added messaging features, the ability to include multiple images or videos in a single post, and a Stories feature – like its main opposition Snapchat – which allows users to post photos and videos to a sequential feed, with each post accessible by others for 24 hours each. As of January 2019, the Stories feature is used by 500 million users daily.
After its launch in 2010, Instagram rapidly gained popularity, with one million registered users in two months, 10 million in a year, and 1 billion as of May 2019. In April 2012, Facebook acquired the service for approximately $1 billion in cash and stock. As of October 2015, over 40 billion photos had been uploaded. Although praised for its influence, Instagram has been the subject of criticism, most notably for policy and interface changes, allegations of censorship, and illegal or improper content uploaded by users.
As of July 2020, the most followed person is footballer Cristiano Ronaldo with over 233 million followers. As of January 2019, the most-liked photo on Instagram is a picture of an egg, posted by the account @world_record_egg, created with the sole purpose of surpassing the previous record of 18 million likes on a Kylie Jenner post. The picture currently has over 54 million likes. Instagram became the 4th most downloaded mobile app of the 2010s.
Where Instagram comes into its own is if you want to filter photographs. Make yourself look 20 years younger than you are, even change your features to look like the opposite sex. Personally, if that is what you are looking for then you have found your home from home. If on the other hand, you just want a place to collect and manage photos then Flickr is more the app of choice.
Archive Posts
This post continues from posts that were on the original version of Jammy Toast. If you wish to read the earlier posts in this series, you can now find them over on our archive website which can be found here at Classic Toast. The previous post in this particular series [Our Favourite Websites #13] can be found here.
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I never understand why people want to share their photographs with the world.
My instagram account vanished without a trace.
My account has been suspended for 24 hours for the last year!
Like many social media sites it is fun until it is sold to a big company then the fun disappears and it just becomes hard work. YouTube was the same when it first started it was fun, now it is just adverts.
Don’t use Insta, isn’t it mostly for kids?
I am thinking of closing down ALL my social media. It should be renamed Anti-Social Media!
Mine works ok but it does make me wonder what’s going on with all the accounts they have disable. Will people ever get them back?
Can ya wash ya hair with a bar of soap?
Imagine meeting someone off insta, they would never look like their pictures cos of all the filters.
I’m havin a break peace outskiiiiii
Okay am back!
OMG thank God for that. I was worried SICK!!
Get an iPhone if you hate your money!
Boris Johnson is sponsored by Jacamo.
One thing we learned from the first wave of #COVID19 was that a proper lockdown will quickly reduce the infection rate, hospitalisations and deaths. So we won’t be doing that again.
Can hear me arl feller listening to one of them twerk tiktoks here the sick bastard, must of got a good 5 plays in too!
If you’re concerned about being eaten at the park please consult the new “guest death count forecast” for your planned trip dates available now on the Jurassic park app.
Everyone on the internet is a lying sack of shit.
A customer has just said “there’s a good girl” and now I have to kill him.
What do u wear when a bird is coming ya house you’ve only a seen a few time’s, I feel a bit silly in this suit pretending this how I spend my nights.
I’d go for a Giraffe Onesie!!
Who wishes Mrs Thatcher was in charge now?
How shit at your job do you have to be that invoking the Demonic Spawn of Satan is suggested as a better option?
Last bin day tomorrow before Joe Anderson makes me paint it purple.
When I’m not saving the world I like to sit on the sofa in my pants, eat biscuits & remind the cat that biting never solved anything.
Goodnight you people in my phone. Back to it first thing for me!
I just Googled “how to write a play”. Can’t wait to show everyone what I’ve been working on.
My grandfather built the house I live in. So when I cut the grass, I’m doing the same lawn I have been doing since I was 10. Only back then I got $5 for doing it. Now I don’t.
This is bullshit.
Sometimes I forget I was in a f*cking Disney Channel original movie!
Me thinking Elton John was Ozzy Osborne will never not be funny!
Spider-Man 3 is bringing back Toby maguire and Andrew Garfield gweddd!!
Still not sure what I want to be if I grow up?
I think my human is getting weirder in her old age. She keeps telling me that I am such a handsome boy! Really? It’s obvious she doesn’t know much about cats. A black cat is a black cat, isn’t it? Maybe she means my personality because it can’t be my looks.
Pooh was a Bear of Enormous Brain –
(Just say it again!)
Of enormous brain –
(Of enormous what?)
Well, he ate a lot.
So now let’s give him three hearty cheers
And hope he’ll be with us for years and years.
Winnie The Pooh Published On This Day 1926.
There’s just time for a quick coffee before I have another coffee.
Have I missed the memo here the school run is dead.
Good morning!
Rolf report 14 Oct
I have two modes in life: full-on & fast asleep. This means that when I’m not resting, I am in constant active mode; dashing around, demanding to play & /or caterwauling in a very loud voice. My humans have to constantly find new ways to entertain me.
Rolf x
Has anyone tried just telling the virus to fuck off?
Some fella just barked at me!
I’m trying to look interested in this meeting, but my eyes have started to droop. Happy Wednesday friends.
Can you see the derby going ahead Saturday?
Fella’s got to self isolate for 2 weeks bc someone in his work has covid & he’s driving me up the wall. I swear to god I’ll end up k*lling him before covid does.
I helped her out of a jam, I guess, but I used a little too much force…
I’m still dead!
Put your hand up if you’re made up Maggie shit her knickers and died.
That Track and Trace is no better than the Delta Taxi app.
Have Boris an Kier had a breakup?
I’d pay silly doe for a heavy handed chiropractor to adjust me neck now, just absolutely fuckin snap it tho.
Imagine going to jail for calling a girl a bird hahahahaha Walton’s gonna be overrun!
ill add students to my list with the b*lds if they carry on giving cheek yeno. go work on your dissertations and have a pot noodle or something.
Whether he’s near or far, he’s always one of my favourite friends on Sesame Street! Happy Birthday, Grover!
Who on earth orders a no sugar, no caffeine, skinny latte. SERIOUSLY WHAT IS THE POINT?
All The Negativity && Moaning Today Has Affected My Positive Vibe.
Going back to android and I feel like a hobo.
Thank you for speaking. Apologies video call was dropped, our Premier picked up telephone to make call sex chat line and interrupt modem signal.
Shaqs not online no more?
Where’s the protest tonight?