Instagram announces 300M active users, verification badges for celebs

Instagram announced Wednesday morning that there are now more than 300 million people using the Facebook-owned photo sharing app. The app will also include — similar to Facebook — verified badges for celebrities. Instagram has been working to make the experience better for those 300 million users, deactivating several spammy accounts.

Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom announced the milestone in a blog post:

We’re proud to announce that there are now more than 300 million Instagrammers. Over the past four years, what began as two friends with a dream has grown into a global community that shares more than 70 million photos and videos each day.