According to a recent discourse by Facebook's photo-sharing service Instagram said that it had witnessed a record number of uploads of photos which were tagged with words related to the Thanksgiving theme.

Going by the statistics shared by Instagram, the 2012 Thanksgiving event became the most shared event on the photo-sharing service; with over 10 million Thanksgiving-related photos being uploaded on Thursday. The massive number of photos uploaded in connection with the Thanksgiving event surpassed the 800,000 photo uploads linked to Hurricane Sandy.

With Thanksgiving being a momentous day so far as the uploading of photos to Instagram was concerned, the photo-sharing service also revealed that one of its highest points associated with the Thanksgiving-photos uploads was the turkey feasts; with hordes of pictures of turkeys, cranberries, yams, hams and pies having been uploaded.

According to the Instagram figures, the peak uploading time at midday on Thursday had as many as 226 pictures of turkey dinners uploaded every second; with the result that the number of shared photos on Turkey Day was over two-fold more than the Wednesday numbers.

Noting that the sheer number of Thanksgiving-related photos uploaded to Instagram made Thanksgiving Day 2012 the "busiest day so far" for the popular photo-sharing service; and, in an overall analysis, "broke all Instagram records."