Facebook’s photo-sharing app Instagram is posting numbers that suggest its own picture is back in focus these days.
A month after it had a PR nightmare over its terms of service, it is reporting that it has 90 million monthly active users. Instagram also says its users upload to the social network 40 million photos per day. What’s more, every second they like 8,500 of the filter-enhanced snap shots and make 1,000 comments about them.
The stats are good news following the kerfuffle that erupted last month when Instagram had to do some back-peddling after it released an unpopular update to its terms of service.
At issue were concerns over whether Instagram would sell your photos to be used in advertisements without your permission or compensation, as the policy seemed to indicate. High-profile Instagram users had threatened to abandon the site and many users exported their photos and deleted their accounts.
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