Instagram celebrates 5-year anniversary at iconic Burj Al Arab

  06 October 2015    Read: 729
Instagram celebrates 5-year anniversary at iconic Burj Al Arab
In the five years since its launch, more than 40 billion photos have been shared and everyday 3.5 billion likes are generated on Instagram.
Of Instagram’s 400 million member base, more than 75 percent of users are based outside of the U.S., particularly in the MENA region which has seen exponential smartphone adoption.

To celebrate this milestone, members of the Instagram community in Dubai came together for an Instawalk at the iconic Burj Al Arab Hotel to coincide with Instagram’s 12th Worldwide InstaMeet. This year the Worldwide InstaMeet fell just before the Instagram community’s birthday on 6 October.

To celebrate the vibrant, diverse and global community that has grown since Instagram launched just five short years ago, people all over the world came together to take pictures and meet new people on the hashtag #WWIM12.

The #WWIM12_Burj InstaMeet was led by Mounir Lakkis, Head of Engineering at the Burj Al Arab, the Instagram community, including noted photographers Elia Locardi (USA), Yacob Ahli (UAE) and Ahmad El-Abi (Egypt), received an intimate tour of the property, capturing the various intricacies that have made it a world-class design marvel.

The iconic Instagram logo was also projected on the façade of the Burj Al Arab giving residents of Dubai a moment to capture and share with the worldwide community, according to eyeofriyadh.com.

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