{"id":208496,"date":"2017-04-26T16:12:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T14:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=208496"},"modified":"2017-04-26T16:15:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T14:15:31","slug":"instagram-has-700-million-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/208496-instagram-has-700-million-users.html","title":{"rendered":"Instagram has 700 million users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram has grown to over 700 million members. Its growth rate has increased since\u00a0December, when it was at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/191998-instagram-has-over-600-million-users.html\">600 million users<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With new features like stories, live video, and disappearing messages in Direct, people now have more ways than ever to express themselves,&#8221; said Instagram.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/04\/13\/instagram-stories-bigger-than-snapchat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TechCrunch reported<\/a><\/strong> that Instagram&#8217;s growth has come at Snapchat&#8217;s expense, following the launch of Instagram Stories.<\/p>\n<p>Instagram\u00a0launched Stories in August 2016, and reported\u00a0that it sees\u00a0200 million\u00a0daily\u00a0active users on the feature.<\/p>\n<p>Snapchat&#8217;s growth decreased by 82% since the launch of Instagram Stories, reported TechCrunch.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/207246-instagram-introduces-private-collections.html\">Instagram introduces private collections<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram has grown to over 700 million members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":169151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[161,10424,22637],"class_list":["post-208496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-facebook","tag-instagram","tag-snapchat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208504,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208496\/revisions\/208504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}