Instagram's monthly user base surpasses Twitter as it hits 300 million mark

Just nine months after it hit the 200 million mark, Instagram has now said that 300 million now use its photo app every month with 70% of them coming from outside the United States.

The figure makes the app bigger than Twitter which had 284 million active users six weeks ago, reported Tech Crunch.

Despite fears that the acquisition by Facebook will have an adverse impact on the app, Instagram has been doing well for four years now with 70 million photos being shared on it every day and over 30 billion total.