Twitter has taken the unusual step of interrupting high-profile users within its own app, to suggest they stop posting photos from Instagram to the social network. A number of Twitter’s ‘verified’ users accounts held by celebrities, brands and other public figures, including journalists received the in-app alert, which reminded them to “post your photos directly on Twitter to make sure your fans always see them”. The move could be seen as defensiveness on Twitter’s part.
- Instagram announced that it had more than 300 million active users in December 2014, most reports chose to compare that figure to Twitter’s most recent milestone of 284 million.
As social networking sites are competitive with each other, I believe Twitter has done this in order for Twitter users to stop 'advertising' Instagram on Twitter. Also, Instagram users have drastically increased and are more likely to continue to increase if users on Twitter continue to see Instagram posts and would eventually make their own account if they do not have on already.
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