To celebrate the news of Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram, designers over at Visual.ly put together a rockin’ infographic timeline of how the photo app went from zero to a billion in 17 months of exposure.
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Pinterest has made “pinning” a household verb, but the online bulletin board is still a small part of the social media ecosystem. This infographic from Internet Marketing, Inc explores the many reasons this site is already so popular, putting its early success in the context of other sites like Facebook and Twitter.
If you can’t get enough infographics, you’re in luck. After much anticipation, the data visualization platform Visual.ly has released some new tools for organizing data from your Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Last week some of the web’s most popular sites, from Wikipedia to Reddit, went dark to protest SOPA and PIPA. The protest was enough to stop SOPA in its tracks (at least for the time being), and Visual.ly, the world’s largest database of infographic, has put together a nice visualization of ‘How the People and Social Media Changed Congress’ Mind in One Day.’
Last Friday marked five years since Twitter launched publically, and to celebrate the occasion Visual.ly released a new infographic following the history of Twitter, from it’s conception back in January 2006 to today.
Visual.ly, the world’s largest database of infographics and data visualizations, has launched a fun new tool that lets you make an infographic of yourself to see how your Twitter behavior compares to that of your favorite celebs, from Hollywood digerati like Lady Gaga and Ashton Kutcher to Web gurus like Guy Kawasaki and Kevin Rose.
