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A little over two years after its iOS-only launch, eight months after its acquisition, five months after designer Cole Reinke leaked an image of Instagram’s efforts to bridge mobile and web, and one week after the company hit its most photographed event ever, Instagram has finally bulked up its web presence.

Citing overwhelming user demand as the motivation, the fourteen-person team behind Instagram has built a simplified web interface for User Profiles, viewable at http://www.instagram.com/alexia (or whatever your username is). While it’s currently launched to a whitelist, the web functionality should roll out to all 100 million registered users by the end of this week.

Twitter plans to alter its mobile apps in the coming months and add photo filters so that its members can skip Facebook-owned Instagram, according to a report by The New York Times.

If the juicy rumor proves true, and it probably will as the Times’ Nick Bilton is well-sourced at Twitter, it speaks to the information network’s naiveté over what’s attracted more than 100 million users to Instagram.