The recent leaks has also forced the platform to pause its plans to develop an Instagram for Kids, specifically for those under the age of 13.Īre you an Instagram fan and like watching IG Reels? Let us know in the comments below, and keep reading for latest science and technology news. Later it became the most downloaded app on the app store, which skyrocketed numbers to 271 million by December 2018 and almost double (508 million) by the end of 2019. By January 2018, the company had 55 million uses around the globe.
media platform with approximately 1.5 billion active users on a daily basis. However, facing all these issues couldn’t stop the app from reaching the 1 billion active users mark globally. To limit the usage of its platform, Insta rolled out the ‘take a break’ feature a few weeks ago that would ask viewers to take a pause from the platform to do something else such as reading or doing household chores etc. Hackers made all of the infected users to get logged out of their accounts. Meta was also grilled recently after another leak exposed how Instagram’s internal research showed how it could harm a child’s well-being and despite that it would not prevent them from logging on to the platform.Īlso Read: Instagram Testing 'Take a Break' Feature To Reduce App Addiction Mosseri defended the platform and its impact on teens stating that Instagram wasn’t designed for people between the ages of 13 and 17.
Previous leaked research and reports highlighted the impact of the image-sharing app on the young user group.Īlso Read: Explained: What Are Algorithms And How Do They Filter Our Social Bubble? This surfaced at a time when Instagram Chief, Adam Mosseri testified before a Senate Commerce subcommittee on the topic of child protection online - something that has tarnished Instagram’s reputation in the past few months. It only took three years for the image and video sharing platform to double that number. Instagram has refrained from making its numbers public since it crossed the one billion active user mark in June 2018. This was revealed by anonymous Meta employees who got to know this during internal conversations. Reported first by CNBC, Instagram had actually crossed 2 billion user figures a week before Facebook announced its rebranding to Meta in October. Instagram has already crossed two billion active users on its platform, however, the platform quietly slipped this achievement under the rug amidst controversy surrounding alleged mental health damage of kids and teenagers.Īlso Read: RIP Algorithm: Instagram's Reverting To Chronological Feed, Just Like Old Times
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