Instagram comes to Android and is bought by Facebook

Instagram comes to Android and is bought by Facebook
In 2011, hashtags arrived on Instagram, those essential labels that allow us to associate our publication with a certain topic. In this way, people who do not know us can enjoy a photo or video that we have published.

In less than a year, there were already 5 million people using Instagram. Systrom and Krieger, aware of the great success enjoyed by their app Download Instagram Video for Free, made the decision to launch on other operating systems. In this way, in April 2012, Instagram finally appeared for Android, achieving more than 1 million downloads in less than 24 hours.

After this launch, the application caught the attention of Mark Zuckerberg, creator of Facebook, who only 6 days after the arrival of the app on Android bought it for 1,000 million dollars.

This transaction is very important in the history of Instagram since Zuckenberg, in a masterful move, offers its creators an irrefutable offer: the right to maintain a certain administrative independence and 1,000 million dollars in cash and shares. Considering that at the time, Instagram was just over $500 million at market value, the offer was very tempting.