For several years, Instagram was proudly a mobile-only service — there was no web portal, and the company rarely sent users any email for any reason. Since being purchased by Facebook, however, that's begun to change a bit — the service added web-accessible profiles last year, and now Buzzfeed is reporting that Instagram is sending email notifications to a user when their Instagram username is mentioned in a post. There's no doubt that this is a very Facebook-esque behavior, and it's a change that some users might be annoyed by, particularly if they get a lot of mentions on Instagram.
On the other hand, it could be useful for users who try to minimize alerts on their mobile device, but it does mark the next bit of Instagram's...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/28/3925148/instagram-launching-new-email-notifications
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