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Instagram vs Twitter: A Solution

blog.embed.ly on 12/07/2012

Excerpt: Instagram removed Twitter Cards from their site, the internet freaks out. My god, they are turning their back on the social network that helped them become a billion dollar company. Every content network was built on the back of a social network. YouTube grew on MySpace. SoundCloud grew on Facebook. Instagram grew on Twitter. The only difference here is that Instagram is leaving. Instagram's problem isn't Twitter, it's the medium in which they operate. YouTube and SoundCloud have very rich embeds that users can interact with and be drawn back to thier web properties. Images however, are very static. They take about a second to view and then the user moves on.... read the full post.
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