![Mattermark Chart of the Day - Twitter Mentions of Instragram from Launch to Acquisition](https://mattermark.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/chart_5-31.png)
If you were an investor considering Instagram’s Series A, could stats on Twitter mentions have helped you get in on the deal? The company shared on TechCrunch that they had crossed 1 Million users shortly before Christmas 2010, and their funding was announced just 2 months later in early February 2011, so we think it is reasonable to assume they were fundraising during that time.
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If you were only looking at daily data, Twitter mentions in the days leading up to the Series A might not be particularly telling. However Instagram was openly publishing about their user growth, going from 130,000 users acquired in the first week (October 2010) to 1 Million just two and a half months later.
Here are the weekly Twitter mentions of Instagram in the 20 week from launch to Series A, basically a zoomed in view of the earliest and smallest part of our first graph. Interesting to see the spikes around Halloween and Christmas (they hit 1 Million users just a few days before the biggest photo holiday of the year).
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