Instagram has a new Facebook-like vibe.
The photo-sharing site unveiled web profiles this week — a bid to
enable users to display both their profile and photos they have taken
with the Facebook-owned Smartphone application.
“We’re launching web profiles to give you a simple way to share your
photos with more people and to make it easier to discover new users on
the web,” the company said in a blog post.
“You can share your own profile with anyone you want to see your
Instagram photos. In addition, web profiles provide an easy way to
follow other users, comment and like photos, and even edit your profile
directly from the Web.”
With a web profile, a user’s recently shared photographs will be
featured just above his or her profile photo and bio, giving others a
“snapshot” of the photos he or she has shared on Instagram, the blog
said.
While the design is similar to that of Facebook’s timeline, it has
its own personality with a montage of large-scale photos arranged across
the top portion of the screen. The images change as users add new
pictures and images.
“You can follow users, comment and like photos and edit your profile
easily and directly from the web,” the post reads. “It’s a beautiful new
way to share your Instagram photos.”
Before launching this new feature, users were able to access
Instagram photos online solely through a basic landing page displaying a
photo and the comments it had received.
The firm will roll out the new web profiles over the course of this week.
Once up and running, users can access their page through Instagram.com/their username.
The popularity of Instagram has skyrocketed since Facebook announced
in April its plans to purchase the site. The purchase became official
this fall.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said Instagram had 30 million users
at the time of the announcement. In a little more than six months that
number had climbed to 100 million, he said.
The social media giant shelled out $715 million in cash and shares to
purchase the photo-sharing site, according to the quarterly investment
report it filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission Oct. 23.
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