<http://schema.org/articleBody>
"So much for reports that Instagram is suffering from an exodus of users. \nInstagram revealed Thursday that it now has 90 million monthly active users. That's up 10% from the same period a month ago, according to a statement the company provided to AllThingsD.\n\"Instagram continues to see very strong growth around the world,\" Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom told AllThingsD. \"With many of the product and internationalization improvements we've made, we've been excited to see these efforts resonate with users globally.\"\nThis marks the first time that Instagram has ever released data on monthly active users. Facebook, which owns Instagram, revealed in September that the photo-sharing service had passed 100 million registered users.\nSince then, though, Instagram has encountered its fair share of controversy \u2014 first by disabling support for Twitter cards and then by changing its terms of service.\nSome data firms have reported that Instagram's user base had dipped recently as a result. AppData, a service that tracks apps connected to Facebook, said that Instagram's daily active user count had dipped by a quarter during the holidays, a fact that the firm speculated was due to the terms of service announcement. However, that report was widely panned and the new numbers from Instagram suggest that the number of users has continued to grow.\nAside from revealing the number of monthly active users, Instagram also announced that users now share 40 million photos each day and post 1,000 comments and 8,500 likes per second.\nImage courtesy of iStockphoto, andrearoad"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://mashable.com/2013/01/17/instagram-monthly-active-users/>