How Instagram Went From Zero To $1 Billion In 17 Months [Infographic]

To celebrate the news of Facebook's acquisition of Instagram, designers over at Visual.ly put together a rockin’ infographic timeline of how the photo app went from zero to a billion in 17 months of exposure.

Everyone’s talking about Instagram following Facebook’s billion-dollar acquisition and a whirlwind Android launch that hit 5 million downloads in 6 days.  To celebrate the news, designers over at Visual.ly put together a rockin’ infographic timeline of how the photo app went from zero to a billion in 17 months of exposure.

The infographic, made up of Instagram-style photos, begins back in March of 2010, when Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger raised $500,000 in seed funding for the first iteration of Instagram, burbn. 

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