Instagram now has 700 million monthly active users, up by 100 million in four months

Instagram's Stories feature beating out all of Snapchat in terms of users is so two weeks ago. Now the photo-minded social network is crowing about hitting 700 million users in rapid fashion. Specifically, 100 million folks flocked to the app within the last four months alone. The last time Instagram gained 100 million new users it took six months, according to TechCrunch.

Instagram is now quickly approaching Facebook’s other social media juggernauts: WhatsApp hit 1.2 billion users back in January, and Messenger reached that same milestone just a couple of weeks ago. Of course, Facebook itself still reigns king, at 1.86 billion users as of the new year.