A Brief Introduction, What is Instagram?
Instagram is an online mobile photo sharing website that enables its users to take pictures and share them publically or privately on the app. These pictures can be shared to other social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Flicker. Instagram uses a camera and an application to share your images with the online community, in 2012 Facebook purchased it from its creator. Instagram was an investment made to improving crossover between smartphone and photography. These day’s photo sharing and short videos lead the world social media, and that’s where it comes the role of the built-in mobile camera which is key selling factor of this device as well.
Getting Started:
To use Instagram first, you should download the Instagram app on your mobile device; you can find it easily from Play Store on Android and App Store on iOS. You have to link your Instagram account with Facebook. Open the application and tap on signup create an account and log in. Select friends to follow and then select done to proceed. You can add pictures to your timeline by either using camera or pick one from the gallery; then you can apply a filter to your photo, filter add up beauty to your image. Else you can add a caption to your image and also you can add a tag to your pictures also add the location.
The Trends:
Instagram trends are like a wave of current highly popular editing, photography, color and content styles that swing or progress in the short period. Being aware of the latest trends can give you peek to what people are looking for on Instagram. You ca easily find a lot of trends by doing hashtag research.
Some of the trends are Weekend Hashtag Project, Throwback Thursday, Selfies, and Instagram. These tags are the basic component of navigation in Instagram and here are some of the most popular hashtags, there are other tons of Instagram tags but sticking to top tags is kind of better.
#love
#beautiful
#summer
#cute
#me
Features provided by Instagram:
There are various features provided by Instagram such as users can upload photographs and short videos, users can follow other users and geotag the images. Instagram stories are one of the coolest features using it users can upload photos and live videos that will vanish within the 24-hour time span.
Instagram updated its algorithm which allows prioritized user feed based on the frequency you are engaged with them. You can have push notification activated, so you will never miss newly posted content. You can easily manage your Instagram filters so that you can have easy access to them. You can have multiple accounts on Instagram. Instagram introduced Instagram Direct which allows users to send a direct message. Instagram has built-in photo editor as well. You can post Instagram photos on other social network sites too. You can also save drafts in your Instagram account.
The importance of Instagram:
- At present Instagram is the fastest growing social media platform
- Instagram community consist of 400 Million users around the globe
- Instagram has the highest rate of user engagement
- About 100 million new images are uploaded each day
- Users interact by comments or likes are over 10,000 per second
- Instagram allows you to embed it on your website
- Instagram is overtaking the Facebook
- Instagram is the latest tool for the marketers of any business
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