Instagram has been around for ten years and introduces a function to combat bullying
Facebook subsidiary Instagram has been around for ten years on Tuesday, the company has announced. The company is marking the anniversary with a new anti-bullying feature by alerting people who want to post certain comments that those comments could be deleted. When people repeatedly try to post comments that Instagram thinks will be offensive, the company warns those users that it will likely delete those comments. That should discourage posting such comments. The intention is that by providing real-time feedback, users will reread what they wanted to post to see how it might come across, coinciding with Instagram’s 10th anniversary on Tuesday. Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger released the iPhone version of the app, then focused solely on photo sharing, on October 6, 2010. Instagram followed up on Burbn, an app to check in on locations and see where contacts are located The app only offered the option to upload square photos with a resolution of 640 pixels, the width of the screen of the then common iPhone 4 and 4S, with 960×640 pixels. In addition, users could add filters to hide the fact that their phones didn’t take extremely sharp or beautiful photos. The Android version didn’t follow until 2012. Facebook took over Instagram for a billion dollars that year. Then twelve people worked at the company. Growth was mainly due to the fact that famous people started to use the app and thereby encourage their fans to use it. Systrom and Krieger worked at Instagram until 2018, which functioned relatively independently within Facebook for a long time. In those years, Instagram was gradually adding advertising to the app to make money, initially one approved ad per day. The most famous added feature is Snapchat clone Stories. Not only the functions have been taken from the competitor, but also the name. In recent years, Facebook has taken the reins of Instagram. The parent company is now pushing more advertisements and has integrated the various messaging services.