What is instagram ?And how the popular app works

Instagram’s service is relatively straightforward. It focuses on posts containing images and/or short-form videos. These posts are contained within a user’s profile and may be displayed publicly within Instagram or privately to the user’s followers. There are two main channels for posting: into the user’s permanent feed or into their “Stories,” a special section where content remains for 24 hours before disappearing (unless specifically archived). It is also possible to go “live,” streaming video directly from a camera to the platform.

The social-media platform known as Instagram began as a photo- and location-sharing service called Burbn. Its cofounders, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, sold Instagram to Facebook for $1 billion in April 2012, less than two years after the app first appeared in Apple’s App Store.