Instagram Loses Almost Half Its Daily Users In a Month

redletterdave writes "Instagram scared off a lot of users back in December when it decided to update its original Terms of Service for 2013. But even though the company reneged on its new terms after a week of solid backlash, Instagram users are still fleeing the photo-sharing app in droves. According to new app traffic data, Instagram has lost roughly half of all its active users in the month since proposing to change its original Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. In mid-December, Instagram boasted about 16.3 million daily active users; as of Jan. 14, Instagram only has about 7.6 million daily users." Towards the end of December data showing a 25% drop in Instagram's daily active users came out. While it caused quite a bit of discussion online, it was suggested that the decline was due to the Christmas holiday or an inaccuracy in the data.

In other news

[Anonymous Coward]

Pentagrams are gaining popularity

Re:What is this Instagram?

[Dahamma]

That, and apply a filter so you can make a perfectly good digital photograph look like an old Polaroid from the 60's after someone's cat peed on it.

I Love the Thought Process Here

[seepho]

"Ohh no, the startup I've been storing my pictures with has been bought out by a company that changed its ToS to include terms someone on the internet told me not to agree with. The best way to solve this problem is by storing my pictures with another startup that doesn't have such a disagreeable ToS. Problem solved forever."

Strawmanning is fun sometimes.

Re:Great!

[Anonymous Coward]

But how can I be artistic without those filters!? No one has ever created art with just a camera before.

Re:Droves

[Bobfrankly1]

Thank you.

To be clear:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trove [wiktionary.org]
1. A treasure trove; a collection of treasure.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/drove [wiktionary.org]
2. (usually plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).

Of course, if you run a company that can monetize it's users, a drove IS a trove.

Re:What is this Instagram?

[Anonymous Coward]

so, in a nutshell, it's doing to pictures what slashdot keeps doing to news stories?

Re:And we care because why?

[Just Some Guy]

I'm 60

From your stories, I had you pegged at 73. Now I feel lost, like I need to recalibrate my worldview.