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Instagram now rocks 500 million users with a dedicated daily user base of 300 million

Instagram must be on pills as it is gaining weighty drastically. From one small online clan when it started it has grown exponentially into one large domineering online city, if you remember just last September, Instagram loudly boasted to whoever cared to listen that it had amassed over 400 million monthly active users, ranting lovingly that it had added that delightful feather to its cap in less twelve month after hitting the300 million number.

Fast forward to the present which is like around nine months after that, the Facebook-owned social network which has its focus on picture sharing is becoming fleshier with added pounds in weight. By the statistics now, Instagram’s user base is now over 500 million.

In addition to this, an amazing number of 300 million of those use Instagram daily on a consistent basis. This shows the religious dedication of Instagram’s users. As of now over 80% of Instagrammers do not reside in the US. This attesting to the how handsome the social media network has grown in the international audience.

Though if you measure this against other Facebook’s other properties, Instagram is quite behind as Facebook itself boats over 1.6 billion of them, and then WhatsApp on the other hand has leapt past past 1 billion, with Messenger maintaining a touching distance by900 million.

Yet Instagram’s growth has been fast and furious. With the way Instagram is becoming a digital epidemic, I wouldn’t be shocked if my grandmother gets on board Instagram.

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BBM video available in beta for android users

Blackberry’s own chat app has been around for a while now and when it came to Android was when it blew up – belie dah (in your face Apple fan boys). So, over time it has had one or two updates from user interface to retracting messages, to glympse etc etc. Now, they’ve brought their latest development to Android – BBM video calls; it is however important to note that this feature is still in beta(this means it has a lot of bugs – in simple terms, it might misbehave). I for one would not mind testing it out; not that I am actively on BBM or anything but I dolike to try out new things and as Blackberry has decided to be adopted into the family(check out the BB10 series and the Priv), I believe I owe them this little favor.

Come to think of it, if we don’t test it out and tell them how it is and what glitches to fix, how would they get better. So folks, head on down to the play store and update your version of BBM.

This is how a BBM video call will look like

Wait, know what? Don’t do that if you’re not in North America (U.S and Canada to be precise). Hold on, don’t get mad yet, get this last part before you go all bat-shit crazy on me: If you’re running JellyBean or lower, well, you’re outta luck. Being the devil’s advocate for a second here, Internet speeds are better over there and of course they have their headquarters there too,so if there are any bugs, it would be quite easy to iron them out before throwing it out for the rest of the world.

Apart from these little quirks, you still require a strong Internet connection to make video calls, ever used Skype or Facebook calls with slow connections? See what it does to you? Well, this might be a tad worse. I cannot  quite confirm this yet until I can try it out myself which hopefully will be very soon.

If any Apple fanboy made it to the end of this post after the jibe I threw at them, then you deserve to know that Blackberry is working on an iOS version too; so hang tight.

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