Twitter Cant Just Ape Instagram and Win

By Instagram's count, I have 314 photos. It's a number that represents, while not an obsession, a clear devotion to the image sharing platform Ive been using since early 2011. There are, by parent company Facebook's count, 100 million people just like me, who have adopted Instagrams collection of classic and artistic photo filters to tell a thousand words per picture. During Hurricane Sandy, Instagram stepped out fully from the shadow of other social media platforms to stand as a leading news media gathering and sharing tool.

The numbers are pretty startling: 10 images per second, over half a million photos with the hashtag "Sandy."

And then, with Instagram interest highe…
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