While it is understandable that platforms such as Twitter, or Instagram, should wish to maximize the amount of traffic they receive, it could well start to backfire.
Source: marketingland.com
Instagram Makes Nice With Revised New Terms Of Use. Will Users Be Satisfied?
Instagram’s Kevin Systrom didn’t offer any clarification of the section that states, “You acknowledge that we may not always identify paid services, sponsored content, or commercial communications as such.” This would seem to violate a key tenet of the Federal Trade Commission’s stance on Internet advertising — that ads should be labeled as ads.
Source: marketingland.com
Back in August, Simply Measured discovered that 40% of brands had adopted Instagram. Since then, brand adoption has jumped a whopping 35% quarter-vs-quarter increase — up to 54% adoption rate as of November 1st.
Source: marketingland.com
Instagram’s Dramatic, 6-Month Rise To Having More Daily Mobile Traffic Than Twitter
According to comScore, Instagram’s average daily mobile visitors jumped from 886,000 to 7.3 million from March to August — that’s a 724% gain.
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Instagram Blog: Introducing New Mobile Photo Pages
We’ve redesigned mobile photo pages! Our new mobile photo pages have a look and feel consistent with the web-based photo pages and make it easier for your friends to interact with your photos when viewing them outside of Instagram on their mobile device.
When logged in, your friends can like and…
As part of our social media roadmap in the September 2012 issue of Fast Company, we asked social media’s savviest users about their best practices. Use this guide to share their rules, then add yours, and we’ll keep charting a course through this rocky terrain.








