Will Instagram Sell our Photos

Twitter was in uproar when it was announced that unless you deleted your Instagram account before the 16th January 2013, the photo sharing app had the right to sell and make money from all your filtered photos - celebs and users threatened to quit - but today Instagram posted a message on their website titled 'Thank you, and we're listening', Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom told users: "It is not our intention to sell your photos."

The changes to Instagram's Ts&Cs appeared to give the Facebook-owned photo-sharing site rights to all images uploaded, and allow Instagram to use them for commercial purposes - we must admit we were pretty worried that those pics of our Christmas party work night out were going to be plastered on a billboard for all the world to see... However, in reality we've realised it's only the same privacy policy as Facebook has, and, even though it bruises our egos, perhaps that beautiful blurry pic of our new shoes isn't the masterpiece we thought that Instagram would make their millions from...

Kevin Systrom also said that Instagram would change the wording of the Ts&Cs as that seemed to be causing the most confusion: "The language we proposed also raised question about whether your photos can be part of an advertisement," Systrom wrote. "We do not have plans for anything like this and because of that we’re going to remove the language that raised the question."

Ooh - and even more controversy - apparently it was claimed that Instagram had agreed to sell to Twitter, but at the last minute Facebook bought the service - is that why our Insta pics aren't dislayed on Twitter anymore? The plot thickens...