New figures reveal Instagram have lost nearly 50% of their daily users in less than a month

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Facebook’s Instagram continues to slide after an Internet uproar last month over policy changes to the photo-sharing service, new data show.

Instagram has shed nearly half its daily active users — the highest frequency group — since the fiasco over its terms of use, according to AppStats. Its figures show that Instagram’s active daily users dropped to 8.42 million this week, from 16.35 million on Dec. 17, the day the controversial news broke.

“The main loss will be most likely due to the terms of service changes, given how much attention and controversy the terms of service change has brought, and seeing how clearly the Instagram app dropped after the terms of service change,” said AppStats CEO Sebastian Sujka. Click below for full story -