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A picture-perfect growth story: Instagram has grown by 66% in India

Its own mother brand Facebook grew by 16 per cent to 380 million users, while LinkedIn grew by 20 per cent during the same period

Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram
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“A lot of people make a living out of Instagram. We want to create a suite of products so that different businesses can take advantage of different services”, Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram

Surajeet Das Gupta New Delhi
In the last 12 months, the number of Indian users of Facebook’s picture and video sharing app Instagram grew by more than 66 per cent — from 77.4 million to 129 million — according to data from NapoleonCat, a social media management tool, which analyses data on apps globally.
 
Beloved of teenagers and the youth, Instagram is now the fastest growing social media app in India. Its own mother brand Facebook grew by 16 per cent to 380 million users, while LinkedIn grew by 20 per cent during the same period.
 
Discerning the trend, Instagram has been making

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