Instagram Battles False Alarm Over Traffic Stats
We're doing just fine, Instagram insisted late Friday after a widely circulated report that morning claimed the mobile image-sharing network had suffered a 25% decline as a result of its recent and
rescinded terms of service changes. Working off of a shallow reading of metrics and a snap judgment from AppData, The New York Post reported that Instagram’s Daily Active Users had declined from 16.4 million
during the week of its infamous TOS changes to 12.4 million Christmas week. An AppData spokesperson only encouraged linking the metrics to the TOS story by telling the Post: “We
are pretty sure the decline in Instagram users was due to the terms of service announcement."
Well -- not so fast, Instagram and many other analysts were quick to counter. The LA Times quoted an Instagram spokesperson claiming: “The data is inaccurate. We continue to see strong and steady growth in both registered and active users of Instagram.” Other analysts found that the purported decline actually mapped against a traditional Christmas lull that also impacted many other social network apps from Yahoo, Pinterest, Spotify, etc. Add to that AppData’s reliance on data coming only from people who have connected Instagram to Facebook, and the rigor behind the claims about a precipitous Instagram decline started evaporating. In fact, as Mashable points out, AppData’s own stats show that monthly users of the app actually increased from 42.5 million to 44 million.
For its part Instagram celebrated the end of 2012 by touting the brands that had signed on this past year. Clearly moving toward a brand-friendly approach that promotes these high-profile partners, Instagram included among its “2012’s New Notable Brands” BMW (96,891 followers), Major League Baseball (110,946), GoPro camera (272,088), Luis Vuitton (100,539) and the WSJ (73,072). These consumer brands still can’t match the massive popularity of some of the major celebs posting to Instagram like Oprah Winfrey (977,741), Beyonce (956,563) and (wait for it) Kim Kardashian (5.8 million).
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