(Credit: Screenshot/Jennifer Van Grove) It's taken more than two years, but Instagram has finally introduced a web experience that lets the service's 90 million monthly active users access and views photos just as they do inside the mobile applications.
"As of today, you can now browse your Instagram feed on the web -- just like you do on your mobile device," Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom announced Tuesday in a blog post.
Instagram members can today log in to Instagram.com to view a stream of friends' photos in a photo feed that closely mirrors the experience of Instagram's mobile feed. Photos are displayed single file in reverse chronological order, and standard mobile features such as double-clicking a photo to "like" it and inline comments have also been carried over to the new web experience. Unfortunately, website users cannot upload photos to Instagram.com, which means the photo-sharing piece of the Instagram equation remains mobile-only.
"Your Instagram Feed on the web functions much like it does on your mobile phone," Systrom explained. "You can browse through the latest photos of people whom you follow with updates as people post new photos."
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by Jennifer Van Grove via CNET
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