Instagram got support web profiles

Before last night Instagram developers have gladly shared their long-awaited news to service the fans - Photohosting was supported web profiles. To be precise, and now Instagram users can comment and "laykat" photos through a browser, and view profiles of your friends. According to analysts, these innovations will contribute to the growth of the number of users of the service, and a surge of activity "instagrammerov".

Web address to view a page with photos is simple in the extreme - instagram.com / (username). As written by the developers Instagram, support web profiles currently available is not for everyone "instagrammerov". This function officially earn for each logged-in user service (which, in the meantime, already 100 million) by the end of this week.

Kevin Systrom, founder of Instagram, in a telephone conversation with Techcrunch editor He shared his opinion about the Web Profile:

Web profiles offer users a single place where they can send their friends, who would like to look at his pictures. We were a bit hard to have a service without the possibility of online viewing photos, so we do not want to restrict the function of a die profiles' log in or register in Instagram ».

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On the question of why the developers have added support for downloading images via the browser, Kevin Systrom replied as follows: "We have not added Web uploading photos, as our main focus is still the mobile area».

Let me remind you, this spring Instagram was bought by Facebook for one billion dollars. Then the founder of the popular social network Mark Zuckerberg assured users that Instagram will continue to existence, moreover, it will work independently and will receive infrastructure support from Facebook for later development. As you can see, the way it really happened. By the way, on the phone Sistrom said: "This is not a recent innovation in Instagram web interface, which you will see from us in the near future." We look forward to new updates.