Instagram launches its real-time API with 2,000 developers signed up
Friday, March 11, 2011
, Posted by Unknown at 10:08 PM
Photo-sharing service has unveiled details of its new real-time API, and a list of developer partners already using it.
Social photos service Instagram has taken the wrappers off its real-time API, which allows other app developers to tap into its photos, tags, locations and geographies.
The API is already being used by Dropbox, Foodspotting, Fancy and Momento, with Flipboard and About.me on the way soon, according to TechCrunch.
"We really wanted to push our API to the next level to support a new kind of interaction around photos – one that supported the real-time nature of the content that people create on Instagram," blogs CEO Kevin Systrom, introducing the new API.
Developers can sign up here to use the API, and Instagram says more than 2,000 already have.
Instagram's iPhone app is popular, with more than two million users. However, what's important for any app looking to become a standard is APIs, to push it out into as many other apps as possible.
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