Hold It: Instagram’s Users Drop, but Terms of Service Mishap May Not Be to Blame

December 28, 2012 at 1:52 pm PT

There are reports around the Web today that Instagram has lost around 25 percent of its daily active users connected to Facebook, according to an app-tracking firm AppData.

Some reports are attributing it to the change in Instagram’s terms of service, which had caused a frenzy on the Web. Facebook’s stock also is down more than 2 percent today, which could be a result of those reports — any weakness in an app that Facebook paid $1 billion for at the time wouldn’t be well-received by the market.

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Tagged with: AppData, Facebook, Instagram, Matthew Lynley, Terms of Service, The Wall Street Journal

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