The popular and free photo sharing iPhone app just achieved a huge milestone of 1 million active community users. The viral app allows users to apply dozens of effects to photos and then share it with their friends.

Instagram is also a social networking for photo enthusiasts where they allow users to find and follow friends who are using the iPhone app and keep up with their photo updates. Instagram today announced that they have reached 1 million users in a short span of 8 weeks. This is a huge milestone for them since they took on several bigwigs for photo sharing including Facebook and Flickr where you will find most users sharing their photos.

Cheers to the team behind Instagram for achieving this milestone.