Instagram is to launch a web profile to co-exist with its iPhone app, two years after its original launch.
The photo sharing program are launching their web profiles as a simple way to share your photos with more people and to make finding new followers easier.
The website is gradually being made accessible to users with a notably striking resemblance to the Facebook Timeline. Where a cover photo would be on your Facebook Profile, this space is covered with a mosaic of constantly rotating photos. A small profile photo, bio and follower stats are situated just beneath.
Your photos will appear in thumbnails further down the page in reverse chronological order. Once clicked on, they will become full sized alongside their likes and comments.
The obvious resemblance to Facebook doesn’t come as such a surprise however as Instagram was acquired by Facebook in September for a mere $715 million.
Facebook insist that Instagram will keep running as a separate service however with the pages not linking to Facebook and users not being asked to log in via their Facebook account. The likeness however does suggest a more meaningful link in the future between the two social media platforms.
Users will not be able to upload photos from the web at the current time, possibly due to a similarity to Pinterest, but the inevitable step into having a presence on the web seems the best form of expansion for the program.
The new profiles will become available to all users in the next week or so with most users being able to see theirs in the next few days.
To see if your profile is accessible yet, navigate to instagram.com/[username]. In order to find Nike’s profile, @nike, you would type in instagram.com/nike.
Do you think this is a smart move for Instagram?
What do you think of its likeness to Facebook?
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