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Instagram social media platform

Instagram is defined as one of the social media platforms that is concerned with editing and uploading photos and video clips through posts published through the user’s account on this platform. Instagram also allows those photos and video clips to be easily shared via other social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.

Instagram displays the content of the user’s account in a brief format that can be viewed by scrolling to the bottom. This social media platform can be used through a mobile application or through a website available on the Internet that can be accessed by clicking on the following link: Click here.

It should be noted that using Instagram through its website is considered a limited use, as it is not possible through it to perform some of the basic operations available, such as uploading photos and videos and sharing them with other users, as this is only possible through the use of the application for mobile phones.

Instagram application

The Instagram application can be used for free on mobile phones running either Android or iOS operating systems. The application allows its users to share photos and video clips with other users of the application. It is also possible to comment on various users’ posts and like them. It allows people who Those over the age of 13 can use this application on their phones by downloading it and registering as a new user.

The Instagram application allows its users to add bookmarks to posts that are published through their accounts. Such as hashtags and location-based geographical tags, as this allows those posts to be indexed and made searchable by other users of the application. The posts that the user publishes via Instagram appear through what is known as (Feeds) for the followers of this user’s account, and Instagram provides the feature of making a file The user's profile is private, so that people who do not follow the user's account cannot see what he posts.

Instagram history

The social networking platform Instagram was founded in late 2010 by Kevin Systrom and Mike Kraeger. They both decided to create a simple social application that requires simple steps to use, and focuses mainly on photos taken through mobile phones. They decided to launch a new application known as Instagram. ); This name combined the word (Instant), which means an instant camera, and the word (telegram), which means a telegram.

The Instagram application was a modified application from a previous application known as (Burbn) that Systrom had developed earlier in his career, and on October 2010, XNUMX, the application was officially launched on phones running the (iOS) operating system, where it was downloaded Once this application was launched by one hundred thousand users, Instagram became widespread, with the number of its users reaching one million by December of the same year.

The Instagram application continued to be remarkably successful, but its founders preferred to keep the Instagram company a small company with no more than a few dozen employees, which encouraged Facebook to buy the Instagram platform in the spring of 2012 in exchange for a financial deal totaling one billion US dollars, distributed between cash and stock bonds. Currently, more than one hundred million users around the world use Instagram.

Instagram features

There are many different features that the Instagram application provides to its users, in addition to the basic features of publishing photos and videos, and the most prominent of these features are the following:

• Instagram story: (Instagram Story); It is a display feature through which the user can display photos, video clips, or even links to external sites, or interactive responses through his personal account for one day only, and the story of a specific user appears in the form of a glowing ring above his profile picture of the Instagram account, and users can Others review this story by clicking on that episode.
• Instagram filters: (Instagram filters); It is one of the basic features that makes the Instagram application preferred by a large number of users, as filters can be applied to the photos that are taken in order to give them a distinctive appearance, and this is done by adding these filters for visual effects on the photos and video clips to improve them.
• Direct messages: (Direct Messages) or abbreviated (DM); This feature enables Instagram users to send private messages between one user and another.
• Instagram live broadcast: (Instagram Live); It is a feature through which the user can make a live broadcast through his own story, so that other users can watch this live broadcast and interact with it through comments or even by users joining the live broadcast.
• Instagram TV: (Instagram TV), which is also referred to as (IGTV); It is a feature available in the Instagram application to display video clips that are longer than one minute and may last up to an entire hour, and provide tools that enable the user to control the video display as a pause tool.