When did instagram first launch and what was its original release date?

Jonas_Velborn
Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:11:59 +0000

Instagram officially launched on October 6, 2010 (iOS), created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger after pivoting from a prototype called Burbn; it drew ~25,000 users on day one and reached 1 million by December 2010. Its earliest adopters were iPhone photographers, Silicon Valley tech insiders and the Twitter crowd—creative users and friends of the founders (the Android app arrived later on April 3, 2012).