Klout Announces Bing Integration & Begins To Filter Instagram Data Into User Scores
Exciting new changes are hitting Klout today including integration with Bing search and the addition of Instagram data on user Klout scores. While Klout has integrated with Instagram previously (data has never influenced Klout scores), the Bing integration is new and can show directly on the Search Engine Results Pages.
Instagram Makes Nice With Revised New Terms Of Use. Will Users Be Satisfied?
Instagram’s Kevin Systrom didn’t offer any clarification of the section that states, “You acknowledge that we may not always identify paid services, sponsored content, or commercial communications as such.” This would seem to violate a key tenet of the Federal Trade Commission’s stance on Internet advertising — that ads should be labeled as ads.
Back in August, Simply Measured discovered that 40% of brands had adopted Instagram. Since then, brand adoption has jumped a whopping 35% quarter-vs-quarter increase — up to 54% adoption rate as of November 1st.
Interest in Instagram rose significantly in July, enough to make it the top gaining web property in comScore’s monthly tracking of traffic to U.S. websites.
And hello, Tumblr, surpassing Myspace.
Source: marketingland.com
The ever-growing social photo app Instagram announced a shiny new version 3.0 today. The key additions include upgraded user profiles, photo maps, infinite scrolling and smarter sharing. The new app is officially available today for both iOS and Android.
Source: marketingland.com
Instagram sold for $1 billion! Slideshare is being purchased for $118 million! Facebook about to go public for $100 billion! Apple’s on its way to being worth $1 trillion dollars! A tech bubble? Who cares. With valuations like these, we need a new way of measure the worth of a company. Allow us to introduce a new type of “gram,” one used to value companies.
Having a meta moment over the Facebook purchasing Instagram news.
