Report: Twitter offered to purchase Instagram for half of Facebook's purchase price

Twitter didn't shut off anything. Instagram disabled the integration with Twitter Cards. Bad move, I'd say, but what do I know. I'm just a former user of both platforms who has now quit one of them (Instagram) for good.

It baffles me that people use(d) Instagram in the first place.

Originally posted by Ripper:

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It baffles me that people use(d) Instagram in the first place.

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I've briefly looked at Twitter's replacement 'add filters to your photos and pretend you're Andy Warhol' service and, unsurprisingly, it does just as good a job as Instagram.

So once everyone is over Instagram as a "social network" and realises this (which unfortunately will be longer than it should be), Facebook can stop pretending they didn't simply buy-out Instagram as competition and kill it off.

Edit: Your sig made me smile, dali

It may be not that long. People are starting to leave Instagram massively because of its new privacy policies which, in short, would let them sell ads to companies using pictures picked from the ones posted on the platform with the photographers (who still kinda own them) not seeing a single dime of the cash from such deal.

For instance, they can publish an ad with a photo of you with some of your friends drinking Coca-Cola and put under it a facebook-style sentence such as "<your_nickname> likes Coca-Cola". They charge Coca-Cola for that, you get exposed, don't get paid, your friends hate you and don't let you take pictures of them ever again, and maybe you didn't even like Coca-Cola in the first place.

BTW, Abe is glad you like the sig. ;)

Wasn't aware of that but it sounds like a very good way to get rid of your userbase very quickly - doesn't surprise me though.

Well, now Instagram has commented officially on this topic (saying more or less what I had understood before) and many people is actually thinking that they have rectified... But they haven't. They just chose a different set of words to explain the very same thing.

Originally posted by dali:

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Well, now Instagram has commented officially on this topic (saying more or less what I had understood before) and many people is actually thinking that they have rectified... But they haven't. They just chose a different set of words to explain the very same thing.

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http://www.afterdawn.com/news/article.c...ver_tos_changes

And I don't know if it's true, but some say that they pretend to keep owning your pictures even AFTER you have deleted your account. Insane.

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