With the 150 Million users under instagram's belt they're saying its time to turn them into revenue.

Instagram recently announced that the company has grown from 100M to 150M active users monthly in just six months.These numbers without a doubt boast of how popular instagram is. Its reported that instagram has 55 millions photos shared and 2 billion likes per day.

Rumours have surfaced before, but it seems now that with this notch in numbers under their belt, instagram will be now selling ads real soon. This then raises the question with the addition of ads will instagram still be as cool as it is now. Ads are a great source of income no doubt, but it does take away from the clean flow and over all likeability of the app. I am interested to see how IG will include ads into things and ultimately if IG can remain as popular with them.

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The Infamous Instagram recently rolled out a new update for iOS. They've added a straighten function to "make it easier to take beautiful photos." Instagram now takes advantage of the sensor that determines the orientation and tilt of your device, and uses it to straighten the photo. This means the auto straighten function can only work with an in-app photo. Have no fear though, the update also includes a slider so you can rotate and adjust any photo including those imported from your photo library.

With rotation comes zooming. Instagram stated that "we need to zoom a little." Simply because when you rotate the photo their would be empty regions in the corners. So naturally the photo is zoomed in a little to fill the edges.

iOS users you can also rotate your photos with common gestures. That is two finger rotation and even one finger rotation. For android... well nothing was mentioned in the instagram blog post of android or even when it will be receiving the update. I don't think "if" has to even be questioned thought. Its probably just a matter of time.

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