Instagram Users Are Now More Than 50 Million

Instagram Users Breach 50 Million Mark

The number of Instagram users has surpassed the 50 million mark, a few weeks after Instagram was acquired by Facebook for $1 billion.

The popular photo sharing application, which started year 2012 with 15 million users, reportedly hit the 30 million mark at the start of April and 40 million by April 13, in the wake of its Facebook acquisition.

Citing data from Gramfeed, Mashable said the 50 millionth Instagram user goes by the handle "fox289."

"All we know about the user is drawn from his or her profile picture: an FC Barcelona soccer shirt. Just how many accounts are like fox289 – with no photos posted, no users followed – is something Facebook will be very interested in," it said.

Launched in October 2010, Instagram is a free photo sharing program allows users to take a photo, apply a digital filter to it, and then share it on a variety of social networking services, including Instagram's own. Previosly available only for iOs devices like iPads and iPhone, the app was recently made available to Android devices as well.