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"Eight months after posting his first Instagram snap, Justin Bieber became the photo-sharing app's first user to reach a million followers Tuesday.  \nThe 18-year-old global pop star \u2014 whose fans gave him a social media record for his March 1 birthday \u2014 joined Instagram in July 2011 and reeled in 1,700 followers in just an hour. His inaugural Instagram picture (see below) displayed Los Angeles traffic, with the caption \"La traffic sucks.\"\nBieber has since shared 281 photos and follows 15 Instagram users, including girlfriend Selena Gomez, fellow teen star Jaden Smith and boxer Floyd Mayweather. \nGomez is the second most-followed Instagram user, followed by Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian.\nPreviously, Bieber lost the races to 10 million and 20 million Twitter followers, as well as 1 billion YouTube views to social-media powerhouse Lady Gaga. He's in luck this time, however; Gaga isn't on Instagram.\nMusicians on Facebook have experienced similarly explosive growth on Facebook, first via fan pages and now on their personal pages thanks to the network's Subscribe button.\n\nSEE ALSO: Justin Bieber\u2019s 5th YouTube Anniversary: The Road to Bieber Fever [INFOGRAPHIC]\nBieber currently has 18.6 million Twitter followers and 41.5 million Facebook \"Likes.\" His official YouTube channel has 2.3 billion views. \nInstagram, an iPhone app that has been downloaded 27 million times, announced at South by Southwest this month that an Android version of the app will be released \"very soon.\" Apple also dubbed Instagram its App of the Year in 2011, and company founder Kevin Systrom appeared in Best Buy's Super Bowl ad.\n\n\nBONUS: 13 Products You Can Make From Your Instagram Pics\n\n\nInstagram Products\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1. Bangles\n\nThis Instagram'd bangle on Etsy is made by BuyMyCrap.\n\"We fell in love with the Instagram process and how it allows you to create pieces representative of yesteryear with different tones, filters and effects,\" says Lainey Bard, who's affectionately known by her customers as Mrs. Crap. \"Since we create wearable works of art, we decided to include Instagram inspired pieces in our shop.\"\nThe Craps access the Instagram API via iPod to pull photos. Bangles are sold for $40.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2. iPhone Cases\n\nIf you're on Instagram, odds are you have an iPhone 4 or 4S -- create a custom iPhone case on Casetagram to protect it.\nPhotos can be laid out in various ways \u2014 in small square, in squares of varying sizes (left), within bubbles or honeycombs and in shapes, like a heart.\nThe cases offer a fun way to show off your favorite things, and they're always a conversation starter. The shell background can be white, black or transparent, and the cases sell for $34.95 a pop.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3. Coasters\n\nThese coasters are made by Allison Kaye and sold on Etsy. Kaye prints pictures with her high quality photo professional printer to make sure they are crisp and vivid. \n\"I have been a user of Instagram since it started, and have just always loved the photos,\" Kaye says. \"I wanted a way to show them off and had seen someone who used decorative paper to make coasters and thought, 'I'd love to show off my Instagram photos in the same way!'\"\nKaye says she's had a huge influx of customers, especially during the holidays. While you can choose photos from a friend's feed through Gramfeed or Statigr.am \u2014 making it more personal \u2014 her city collections for Chicago and New York have been the most popular item. \"The city ones seem to be a good base for gifts,\" she says. \nWith an API and a printer, the possibilities are endless. Kaye says she plans to \"add more 'basic' packages to my coaster collection, such as nature, more cities and possibly bar-related themes.\"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4. Tiles\n\nImageSnap (formerly TeenyTile) creates ceramic tiles from your Instagram pics. As Teeny Tiles, the company focused on  2\" by 2\" tiles, but now there are various sizes, up to 12\" square, and you can choose a glossy or matte finish.\nDepending on the size, you can use them as magnets (they come with an adhesive magnet), paperweights, wall decor and even create an artsy mosaic. The 2\" tiles are $4 a pop.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5. Stickers\n\nWhether you're decorating your home, your laptop, your school notebooks or your cube, you might have use for Instagram stickers. Printstagram offers 252 stickers for $10, and each sticker is 20mm square.\n(ArtFlakes is another great sticker option, but the company is improving the design for the ArtStickers, so you won't be able to get Instagram stickers for a few weeks.)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6. Magnets\n\nStickyGram is a London-based company that turns your Instagrams into magnets that are the size of the Instagrams on your phone. You can order a batch of nine magnets for $14.99 with free shipping.\nKejia Zhu came up with StickyGram in February 2011 \u2014 he had been playing around with Instagram, and when the API was announced, \"printing magnets seemed like a cool way to use it.\" He threw up a landing page and had 1,400 signups within a week. \nThus far, \"the response has been astounding,\" he says. From day one, StickyGrams has offered free shipping, but Zhu says it's paid off. \"To date, StickyGrams have been sent to over 80 different countries. It's still a bit of a shock to see orders from places like Azerbaijan and Peru, but it goes to show how global the Instagram community is.\"\nWe've bought StickyGrams of our own, and we're a big fan.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n7. A Bamboo Shadowbox\nHatchcraft's bamboo Boo Box is a beautiful and elegant way to display photographs. Like the filters themselves, the bamboo frame makes photos look a little more sophisticated, and they add a great touch of personality to a home.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n8. Wall Art\n\nCanvasPop created special technology so that Instagram pics could be blown up to 12\" ($39.95) or 20\" ($59.95) squares on stretched canvas.\nCanvasPop co-founder Adrian Salamunovic has been a huge fan of Instagram from day one, so he experimented using his own Instagram photos until CanvasPop \"cracked the code\" on how to make Instagram pictures hi-res enough for canvas. Launched just a few months ago, the Instagram prints now comprise around 15% of the orders, says Salamunovic.\n\"Instagram users tend to be artistic, creative hyper-connected influencers and the Instagram aesthetic translates remarkably well onto canvas,\" he adds. \"We learned a lot from Kodak's failure to innovate in an ever-changing market -- and we want to make sure we never stop listening to the market and taking advantage of new exciting opportunities in the marketplace.\"\nAnd the reception has been great -- an ongoing contest to win a free Instagram CanvasPop has garnered 4,000 entries.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n9. Calendar\n\nA year never looked so good. Keepsy lets you make a calendar from your Instagram pics with a dead-simple, drag-and-drop interface (left). The final product is 11\" by 8.5\" and starts at $19.99.\nThere's also Calendagram, a mobile app that lets you pick 12 Instagram photos for a customized calendar. It's a great last-minute gift idea, especially if you're on the go.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10. Postcards\nPostagram lets you send a postcard from your phone for $0.99 each (the app is free). The postcard comes with a pop-out Instagram photo for the recipient to hold on to. It's a great message to send home if you're traveling, and a fun twist on snail mail, especially for birthday cards.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n11. A Book\nPhoto albums don't just belong on Facebook anymore. Self-publishing platform Blurb lets you create your own photo book, chock full of Instagrams. A softcover book with 20 pages of Instagrams costs $10.95, and you can also get a hardcover and go up to 240 pages, if you have a lot of pics to flaunt.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n12. Little Photo Album\nThe Blurb books are great for the coffee table, but if you're looking for something a little more portable, try a Printstagram tinybook (left). Too tiny? There's also a \"minibook\" that's a tad bigger, featuring Instagrams at approximately the same size as they appear on your phone.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n13. Posters\nFirebox lets you print a poster that's a collage of your Instagram pics. It makes for great wall decor, especially if you can't pick just a few pics to print out from CanvasPop or Hatchbox.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBONUS: The Instaprint\n\nSoon, you'll even be able to have your own Instaprint, a location-based photobooth developed by Breakfast \u2014 the guys behind the Conan Foursquare blimp.\nInstaprint prints Instagrams based on a location or hashtag, and there's a Kickstarter campaign running to bring it to market for Instagrammers like you. We imagine the Instaprint would be a nifty thing to have around the office and at parties.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThumnail from JustinBieberMusic.com"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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