Instagram Turns Four, Salutes Brands

Four years ago Monday -- Oct. 6, 2010, to be exact -- Instagram launched, and the Facebook-owned photo- and video-sharing network marked its fourth anniversary by saluting some of the brands that are part of its community in a post on the Instagram for Business blog.

InstagramBrands650Four years ago Monday — Oct. 6, 2010, to be exact — Instagram launched, and the Facebook-owned photo- and video-sharing network marked its fourth anniversary by saluting some of the brands that are part of its community in a post on the Instagram for Business blog.

The blog post read:

Four years ago today, on Oct. 6, 2010, our team launched Instagram. Led by co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, a small team of employees had been hard at work on an easy way for people to capture and share the world’s moments.

By the end of 2011, the Instagram community had grown to 1 million users.

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