# Instagram sells for how much?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [April 20, 2012, 5:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/instagram-sells-for-how-much/263470 "2012-04-20T05:23:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Vovchandr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/vovchandr/32/6275_2.png) [@Vovchandr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vovchandr)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 5:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/instagram-sells-for-how-much/263470/1 "2012-04-20T05:23:08Z")
1 Billion dollars? With a B? > **[Instagram Sale to Facebook Makes Waves on the Web](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/instagram-sale-to-facebook-makes-waves-on-the-web.html)** > > News of Facebook's purchase sent the web into overdrive, launching the company into a trending topic on Twitter and causing a frenzy of searches on the social site. > Picture this: Facebook is the proud new owner of Instagram, the photo-sharing mobile app. Cost of the acquisition? A cool $1 billion. News of the purchase immediately sent the web into overdrive, launching the company into a trending topic on Twitter and causing a frenzy of searches on the social site. > > The picture-taking application that is barely two years old allows users to choose various artsy filters on the snaps taken with their smartphones. Predictably, loyal followers of the photo-sharing tool took to Twitter to voice their shock at the sale. For a free photo sharing app? I got some mars land for sale for Zuckinburg. As some of the comments said. > “Kodak is going bankrupt and Instagram sold for a billion dollars. Wow, what is the world coming to?” The Wall Street Journal’s Dennis K. Berman tweeted: “Remember this day. 551-day-old Instagram is worth $1 billion. 116-year-old New York Times Co.: $967 million.” > Zuckerberg bought Instagram because a girl didn’t let him take her picture once.” Brent Black added, “Makes me wish I’d thought of cropping pictures into a square and applying Photoshop filters from 1998.” > "Mark Zuckerberg just bought instagram for $1,000,000,000?.. He could’ve just downloaded the free app.” This is baffling. The only possible clue is that the two owners have had a previous relationship dating back to mid 2000’s and it might have been a strategic move or payment for other unmentioned things as well. Who wants to make a Catogram app? Take pictures of cats and instantly turn them into lol cats. :rofl ---
**Author:** ![SRS\_BZNS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/srs_bzns/32/6375_2.png) [@SRS\_BZNS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SRS_BZNS)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 6:07am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/instagram-sells-for-how-much/263470/2 "2012-04-20T06:07:51Z")
need to make a for real xray app. Most pictures can be “x-ray’d” using photoshop filters so just set up an app that auto applies them ---
**Author:** ![Cossey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Cossey](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Cossey)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 7:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/instagram-sells-for-how-much/263470/3 "2012-04-20T07:03:53Z")
I fucking hate Instagram. Even before it became a “billion” dollar company. ---
**Author:** ![SRS\_BZNS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/srs_bzns/32/6375_2.png) [@SRS\_BZNS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SRS_BZNS)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 7:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/instagram-sells-for-how-much/263470/4 "2012-04-20T07:17:16Z")
The things nerds will do to get Bimbos to talk to them ---
**Author:** ![capitalcrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@capitalcrew](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/capitalcrew)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 2:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/instagram-sells-for-how-much/263470/5 "2012-04-20T14:49:49Z")
Rep cossey. Instagram suckks. ---
**Author:** ![v8lonoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/45deac/32.png) [@v8lonoma](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/v8lonoma)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2012, 9:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/instagram-sells-for-how-much/263470/6 "2012-04-22T09:13:18Z")
> [@TW installers, need some help!](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tw-installers-need-some-help/49248/9): > > Rep cossey. Instagram suckks. x3