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Instagram now has 3 billion monthly active users, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg mentioned Wednesday.
“What an incredible community we’ve built here,” Zuckerberg posted on his Instagram channel.
The determine is a significant milestone for the photo-sharing app, which the social media firm acquired in 2012 for $1 billion.
Meta final disclosed Instagram’s person figures in October 2022 when Zuckerberg mentioned throughout an earnings call that the app had crossed 2 billion monthly users.
Meta said in April 2024 that it could not disclose the monthly and every day active person numbers for Facebook and its sibling apps on a quarterly foundation. Since then, Meta has been reporting every quarter the variety of every day active individuals utilizing its household apps. That determine reached 3.48 billion, the corporate mentioned in July, topping analysts’ estimates of 3.45 billion.
With 3 billion monthly users, Instagram joins the ranks of the Facebook and WhatsApp platforms.
Zuckerberg in January said that the Facebook app “is used by more than 3 billion monthly actives.” In April, Zuckerberg told analysts that WhatsApp had “more than 3 billion monthly actives.”
