I think Facebook (company) is lucky with Instagram because that's where the people are going right now.
I think Facebook (company) is lucky with Instagram because that's where the people are going right now.
Though I have to say that at least in its current form, the ability of Instagram to spread crap is limited
That proved to be untrue:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/russian-interf...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/18/instagram...
> But two new analyses of the Russian online propaganda campaign by the Internet Research Agency reveal that this view of Instagram was as rose-colored as, well, an artistically filtered Instagram post.
> “Instagram was perhaps the most effective platform for the Internet Research Agency,” states the report by New Knowledge, an American cybersecurity firm which analyzed data sets from Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
> During the period studied by the report’s authors, IRA posts on Instagram garnered more than twice as many engagements (such as likes or comments) as IRA posts on Facebook – 187m on Instagram vs 77m on Facebook – despite the fact that Facebook offers many more ways for users to interact with content, and Instagram has no native “sharing” button to promote virality.