Dr Eric Talley, a law professor at the University of California, suggested Instagram may have been reticent to reveal the discussions with Twitter in case it jeopardised the Facebook deal. The Federal Trade Commission was investigating whether it would give an already-dominant Facebook too much power in the social networking market.
"These antitrust questions would not have been raised if Instagram was selling to Twitter or Google," Dr Talley told The New York Times.
The FTC approved the deal in late August. It also declined to comment on twitter's alleged attempt to but Instagram.
Public suggestions that Twitter had "verbally agreed" a deal to buy the popular app will intensify hostilities between the two sides. Twitter is aggressively pursuing a strategy of encouraging people to share more "rich" multimedia material, including photographs, which brings it into more direct competition with Facebook.
Instagram is being gradually integrated into Facebook. Today it said in a blog post it would share more data with its parent company.
"This means we can do things like fight spam more effectively, detect system and reliability problems more quickly, and build better features for everyone by understanding how Instagram is used," it said.
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