Instagram photos of Hurricane Sandy are being streamlined into what website?

November 2, 2012 By Karen Stewartson

Instacane is a landing page for various Hurricane Sandy-related hashtags to reside. According to a story by the Huffington Post, nearly 250,000 photos were uploaded on Instagram using the popular hashtag #sandy. Another 167,000 photos were also uploaded to the site using #frankenstorm and #hurricanesandy. Instacane pulls data from these hashtags, creating a detailed collection of the storm’s destruction as well as people’s pastime during the disaster.

Photo via Instagram/ezerk

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