Instagram surpasses half a billion monthly active users

Instagram, owned by Facebook now has over 500 million active users (Source: David Marcus/Facebook)
Instagram now boasts more than 500 million users, more than 80 percent of whom are outside the United States, the company said on Tuesday, in a sign of the photo-sharing app’s rapidly growing global reach.
The company owned by Facebook Inc had 400 million users last September. It has seen its user base more than double over the past two years. Instagram added that 300 million people used the