Instagram Growing Faster then Ever – 700 Million Instagrammers

Instagram was thrilled to announce today, that they have reached 700,000,000 Instagrammers. They claim that the last 100,000,000 joined faster then ever.

We’re thrilled to announce that our community has grown to more than 700 million Instagrammers. And the last 100 million of you joined faster than ever. We’ve made it even easier for people across the globe to join the Instagram community, share their experiences and strengthen connections to their friends and passions. With new features like stories, live video and disappearing messages in Direct, people now have more ways than ever to express themselves and feel closer to what matters to them. From all of us at Instagram, thank you! Photo by @heysp

A post shared by Instagram (@instagram) on Apr 26, 2017 at 6:04am PDT

Making it Easy

They state that they have made it easier for users to join, leaning towards this as the reason they grew their last million users so fast. I am sure there are other factors involved as well, like Instagram Stories, Live Video, adding the shopping feature etc..

Why We Joined Instagram

Have you joined yet? What do you think? What was the reasoning behind you joining the Instagram Community?

We just joined recently ourselves. The reasons we joined were because:
1) We noticed a lot of our audience is on Instagram
2) There is a lot of engagement going on in Instagram
3) There are more opportunities to connect with our audience on Instagram

Follow us on Instagram @seowebfirst. We share more Social, Web and Marketing Tips on Our Instagram compared to the other social networks we are on.

We are using our latest tip in this post!

#InstaTips 📸 – Do you have an amazing photo that you shared on your Instagram account and want to share it on the web somewhere? Like your blog or website….. YOU CAN! 1) Go to Instagram on the web 2) Find the picture you want to share 3) Click on the symbol shown as 3 dots and choose the "embed" option. 4) Copy and Paste the Code anywhere on the web to share it! (PS. In order to do this, make sure your account is set to public and not private!) #InstagramTips #Blogging

A post shared by SEO Web First (@seowebfirst) on Apr 25, 2017 at 3:28pm PDT

If you have any questions about getting started on Instagram? Let us know, we are happy to help and have been studying this topic for a while now!