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It is an online mobile photo-sharing site that allows its users to share pictures and videos on the app, as well as through a variety of other social networking platforms. Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 as a free mobile app. The service rapidly gained popularity, with over 300 million users as of December 2014. The service was acquired by Facebook in April 2012 for approximately US$1 billion in cash. Users can upload photos and short videos (for a maximum of 1 minute), follow other users' feeds and geotag images with longitude and latitude coordinates, or the name of the location. 

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