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by yesbabyyes 5388 days ago
Instagram has 3 engineers[1], 9 million users[2]: 3 million users per engineer.

[1] (counting the co-founders as engineers) http://www.crunchbase.com/company/instagram [2] http://www.kullin.net/2011/09/instagram-now-has-9-million-us...

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And, unless I'm mistaken, a revenue hovering around $0.

That's the hacker spirit.

The first rule of the bubble is you don't talk about things that might make it pop.
Personally, I'm on pins and needles waiting to see if it will.
I know people like Instagram because of the filters and such, but is it cool otherwise? I mean, I've got it installed on my phone, but I hardly ever take pictures with my iPhone (3GS, maybe that explains it?) in the first place.