Egomania Hits Overdrive On Twitter As #Instagate Fury Spreads

Disgruntled Instagrammers were already being wooed away by its competitor, Flickr – and now it seems Instagram is in a full on self-inflicted death spiral.

Or so one would think, reading Twitter.

Instagram told Twitter to beat it and users were ticked (we know you know this – it’s essential backstory for late arrivals, sorry). Instagrammers could no longer seamlessly post their puppy pictures on Twitter. Sad day.

And there were doomsday predictions all around.

But TechCrunch reports that, so far, “traffic referral or not — and Twitter/Instagram frustration or not — for now, that switch does not appear to be having an impact on either site when it comes to overall traffic.”

But all that may be changing.

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