Thanksgiving 2013 marks Instagram's busiest day ever

Thanksgiving 2013 marks Instagram's busiest day ever This year's Thanksgiving marked the busiest day for the widely-popular video-sharing service Instagram, as a great number of people used the service to share their holiday related pictures with their friends and relatives.

It may be noted here that Thanksgiving 2013 and the first full day of Hanukkah fell on the same day, November's last Thursday, for the first time since 1888.  Occurrence of both Thanksgiving and Hanukkah encourage more and more people to share their picture with others.

Announcing its busiest day, Instagram wrote in a blog post, "We saw record usage as Instagramers shared a heaping helping of holiday cheer.  Your Thanksgiving and Hanukkah-related photos and videos helped make yesterday our busiest day on Instagram so far."

The company claimed that sage of the service on this year's Thanksgiving broke last year's Thanksgiving, which had recorded more than 10 million photos.  However, the company didn't exact figures for this year's Thanksgiving.

Instagram, which is owned by the world's biggest social-networking site Facebook, has more than 150 million active users worldwide.