Dive summary:
- Instagram expands from mobile focus to allowing photos to be shared on web profiles.
- Photos can still only be uploaded via mobile use.
- Profile pages resemble Facebook profiles as the companies grow closer following Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram.
From the article:
The company has been slowly moving toward a desktop presence, adding the ability to like and comment on photos on the web in June, but the development of actual web profiles and photo galleries is a feature that’s been highly requested from users and will be the closest thing to an Instagram for the web that exists so far.
“You’ve asked for Instagram on the web and we’ve listened,” the company wrote in their post on Monday.