Instagram Makes Landfall as Major Social News Player in Its Own Right
Set aside your weariness of Hurricane Sandy coverage for a moment and consider a quiet little blog post from Instagram about the hurricane. In it, Instagram highlights compelling user photos of the storm. It then coyly points to other collections of powerful photographs -- one of them on CNN. It appears to be first major news story that CNN has covered by way of Instagram. If the Tehran Square was the Twitter revolution, was this the Instagram Hurricane?
You may be saturated from the downpour of Hurricane Sandy stories, and especially those second degree stories about Internet users Facebooking, Tweeting, YouTubing and Netflixing about and during the storm.
But consider for a moment a quiet little blog post from Instagram about the storm. In it, Instagram highlights compelling user photos of the storm. It then coyly points to other collections of powerful photographs — one of them on CNN.
It appears to be first major news story that CNN has covered by way of Instagram.
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