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After its launch in 2010, Instagram quickly gained

widespread popularity, with one million registered

users in just two months, 10 million users within a

year, and one billion users in June 2012. In April

2012, Facebook acquired this service for a price of

one billion US dollars in cash. In October 2015, more

than 40 million photos were uploaded to the

Instagram platform. Although it received a lot of

acclaim, Instagram was the focus of controversy               Figure 56: Instagram
and criticism due to its changes to the user
interface, the application’s privacy policy,             Instagram is the most popular social
allegations of censorship, and illegal or bad content  media application in Iran (red), and Iran
uploaded by users. In July 2020, the famous football    is the only country in the world where

                                                             Instagram is the most popular
                                                                       application..

player Cristiano Ronaldo was ranked as the person with the most followers. With more

than 233 million followers. On January 14, 2019, the Instagram egg was ranked as the

most liked photo on the Instagram application, published by the @world_record_egg

account. The purpose of creating this account and publishing this photo was to break

the previous record for a post by Kylie Jenner, who received 18 million likes for her

post. The photo currently has more than 54 million likes and Instagram is currently

ranked fourth on the list, with an incredible 1.28 billion monthly active users, and is

expected to generate about $40 billion in annual ad sales in late 2023.

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