Announcing Instagram Profiles on the Web

    Web profiles will launch to all Instagram users in the 
    next week or so. If you can’t see your profile yet, rest 
    assured that you’ll see it in the next few days.

Can anyone explain why this might be (the delayed roll out)?

Re: Announcing Instagram Profiles on the Web

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Post by yllus » Mon, Nov 05, 2012, 7:46 PM UTC

Alternate title: "Announcing the serious Facebook competitor that could have been."

Re: Announcing Instagram Profiles on the Web

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Post by crugej » Mon, Nov 05, 2012, 7:48 PM UTC

Very interesting. Begs the question to whether facebook plans to disrupt itself with the Instagram acquisition somewhere down the line.

Re: Announcing Instagram Profiles on the Web

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Post by ErikHuisman » Mon, Nov 05, 2012, 7:50 PM UTC

citricsquid wrote: post #4

Web profiles will launch to all Instagram users in the next week or so. If you can’t see your profile yet, rest assured that you’ll see it in the next few days. Can anyone explain why this might be (the delayed roll out)?

At Facebook they first release to a small percentage of users. They test and fix bugs. If all is fine and dandy they increase it step by step until the feature is live for everyone.

Tech talk on fb release strategies https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10100259101684977...

Re: Announcing Instagram Profiles on the Web

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Post by denzil_correa » Mon, Nov 05, 2012, 7:53 PM UTC

Did Facebook bring about this change? Interesting.

Re: Announcing Instagram Profiles on the Web

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Post by barredo » Mon, Nov 05, 2012, 7:55 PM UTC

citricsquid wrote: post #4

Web profiles will launch to all Instagram users in the next week or so. If you can’t see your profile yet, rest assured that you’ll see it in the next few days. Can anyone explain why this might be (the delayed roll out)?

To fix bugs, to test performance and avoid an massive traffic hit to their servers

Re: Announcing Instagram Profiles on the Web

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Post by nsns » Mon, Nov 05, 2012, 7:55 PM UTC

There are already several 3rd parties on the web offering this service (e.g., web.stagram.com, statigr.am), wonder how they'll take this.