21–25 of 25 posts
I think a better (but harder to obtain) metric would be activity. Given that people use their Instagram account, the user account isn't too relevant since you don't really need to sign up.
That's alot of accounts that will be dead in a week. I am not signing up for anything else. Too hard to get rid of once you create them.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
No screen scraping involved actually - the data collection process is mostly manual. Can do a longer write-up on the methodology later tonight if there's interest.
Please do, this is super interesting
If someone has an account number of 50,000, it seems to mean that they were the 50,000th person to join.*
I have an Instagram account with a lot of followers, so I've hade a steady stream of notifications coming in about new users joining.
By viewing the profiles of people who just joined the platform, I can see where they were in line and get a general idea of how many users have signed up.
I started checking this intermittently and recording the estimates.
*I don't think this is explicitly stated, but it seems to be true based off of Zuckerberg's posts about user milestones.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
No screen scraping involved actually - the data collection process is mostly manual. Can do a longer write-up on the methodology later tonight if there's interest.
please do!
If someone has an account number of 50,000, it seems to mean that they were the 50,000th person to join.*
I have an Instagram account with a lot of followers, so I've hade a steady stream of notifications coming in about new users joining.
By viewing the profiles of people who just joined the platform, I can see where they were in line and get a general idea of how many users have signed up.
I started checking this intermittently and recording the estimates.
*I don't think this is explicitly stated, but it seems to be true based off of Zuckerberg's posts about user milestones.