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November 5, 2012 11:24 pm GMT

Sandy Really Was Instagrams Moment: 1.3 Million Pics Posted


Turns out all that talk about Hurricane Sandy being a watershed moment for Instagram wasn't just hot air. Users snapped 800,000 pics tagged with #Sandy, Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom said Monday. (The actual total, according to the app itself: 789,266.)

The second most popular hashtag, we noticed, was #hurricanesandy, attached to 478,925 pics. #Frankenstorm was on 48,000 more. Total it all up, not counting the dozens of minor Sandy related hashtags (or rather, assuming that they balance out the double- and triple-hashtagged pictures, and all the Sandy shots not hashtagged in the heat of the moment) and you get 1.3 million.

At peak times, users were uploading 10 storm-related photos t…
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