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# Instagram Growth Accelerates Past 700 Million Users
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/instagram-growth-execlerates-past-700-million-users/
- Published: 2017-04-27T11:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2017-04-27T11:15:00.000Z
- Description: Instagram now has more than 700 million monthly users, up 200% in two years actives in two years. It took just four months to add these last 100 million. Adding the. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2017/04/instagram-growth-execlerates-past-700-million-users.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: DIY Advice & Tips, Music Marketing, Social Media, Chronology, Daily active users, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, Instant messaging, Mark Zuckerberg, Snap, Snapchat, WhatsApp, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:13

[![Instagram](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201bb099535ef970d-200wi "Instagram")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201bb099535ef970d-popup?ref=hypebot.com)Instagram now has more than 700 million monthly users, up 200% in two years actives in two years. It took just four months to add these last 100 million. Adding the previous 100 million users tooks 6 months.

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Instagram's meteoric growth to 700 million users has been fueled in large part by Stories and other innovations copied from Snapchat. Instagram Stories users passed 200 million last month – 20% more than Snapchat.Instagram is now also more than twice the size of Twitter. Facebook include WhatsApp and Messenger at 1.2 billion users each and Facebook itself at 1.8 billion.

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