OK, I was confused about it a month or so ago, and asked Twitter to explain it to me. A few people told me about its ease of instant cross-posting directly from devices to stuff like Twitter and Tumblr.
Is it ALWAYS supposed to look like that though? Like some sort of instant easy-cut Photoshop version of making a photo look "old"? How is it different from say, somehow slaving Twitpic to Tumblr, or mobile blogging off your smartphone? I can take pictures with my BlackBerry and then post them to to Wordpress off my phone, and Wpress is set to feed to my Tumblr feed.
Is it just the "filter" ability that everyone likes? Is it an "iPhone thing"?
@costa_k: It's not about the ability to publish to twitter/Tumblr. It's like twitter if there were only pictures showing up in the stream. Instead of 140 characters it's a photo.
Just playing with it now, I'm on there as lexmachine or lex machina whichever. Instagram + vintage paper lampshade = what disturbingly resembles post-rave clubkid pubes
No iPhone, so I can't play along, but you all might be interested to see that there's a tumblr dedicated to showcasing well-done instagram shots: http://instagra.ms/
@seantaclaus Finally. And it figures. I just started a tumblr for my mobile photography, just so I could have an RSS feed of my more interesting instagram photos. I've thrown up some of my old hipstamatic stuff too, just to get it rolling.
I'm there as fabiomoon. I like the idea of playing with images, because essencially that's what photographs are: somebody's vision, and somebody's interpretation. Kind of like drawing. But what I like most is seeing pictures from all over the world which help inspire me with some very curious imagery.