Instagram has been popular for quite a while now. This app for mobiles is being used by people in the world such as, celebrities, business owners, and even teenagers. The fact that billions of people are on Instagram, researchers fron Indiana University said that the winner for America's Next Top Model 2015 can be predicted from Instagram. 

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It seems like Instagram is not just a platform for photographs of celebrities and marketing business products - it can predict the model's future of this year's America's Next Top Model too! Researchers and scientists have studied the contestant's eye and hair color, hip measurement, height, waist line, shoe size, and the way they carry their clothes. They have also studied if these models were representing agencies. 

"Models with a top agency have, everything else being equal, nearly 10-time higher chances of walking a runway than their counterparts represented by non-top agencies," stated  the researchers.

The researchers and scientists from the said University looked into the model's social media accounts including Twitter, Facebook, and most especially, Instagram. They have looked into the metrics such as the model's number of followers, posting frequency, the number of comments, and likes plus the tone of the model's comments, whether its positive or negative. The group of researchers and scientists said that these aspects will affect the contestant's modelling career. 

"When we added the social information, we realized that we will be able to predict with above 80 percent accuracy whether a new face, a new model that just started ... would become popular, would run some top runway in the immediate future," stated Emilio Ferrara, a computer scientist at the University of Southern California. Ferrara was responsible for much of the research.

Based on the University's Instagram research, the models who will make it big in the modelling industry are Sofia Tesmenitskaya, Renata Scheffer, Arina Levchenko, Melanie Culley, Sasha Antonowskaia, and Phillipa Hemphrey.

So, if you are interested in being a successful model, you need to start taking great selfies.

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