Currently available on iOS for iPhone and Android however they are working on iOS for iPad, BlackBerry, and Windows.
Instagram helps you capture and share the world’s moments. It helps facilitate visual story telling and encourages creativity. You can share your life with friends through pictures. It gives you the power to transform images into moments. It allows you to experience your friends lives through pictures. Instagram imagines a world more connected through photos. The app can help you to transform average looking photos into professional looking ones through the use of filters. It can also automatically post your photos to Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter.
It’s target audience is, celebrities, newsrooms, brands, teens, musicians, basically anyone creative.
Users create an account and can post photos or video to their wall as well as a variety of other social media platforms. Photos can be edited through the use of one of many filters. Content can be associated with a hashtag to promote views. Users have the ability to like and comment on photos as well as follow others.
It is owned by Facebook, Inc.
Users have the option to have their photos public or private. You must be 13 years old to create an account. Posts cannot contain or promote violence, nudity, discrimination, unlawful acts, hate speech, or copyright infringement. By using Instagram you give them the right to use your data/cookies for analytic/marketing purposes.
- can sync content across social media accounts
- limited to smartphone apps
I would recommend it for the tourist industry. Specifically adventure tourism, events, and any other companies who have a visually stimulating work environment.
