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Why did he redact the name of the account in red? He doesn't want people to know that it's fully automated? I think he could have gotten some additional follo
by chubot 8y ago
Why did he redact the name of the account in red? He doesn't want people to know that it's fully automated?
I think he could have gotten some additional followers with this post.
I would like to see if the content is any good, in addition to being automated ...
- minimaxir 8y agoHere is the account: https://www.instagram.com/beautiful.newyorkcity/ https://www.instagram.com/beautiful.newyorkcity/ EDIT: Just banned about an hour after I linked to it in this comment.
- chubot 8y agoThanks for the link. Looking at the pictures, I probably wouldn't follow it, and I spent last summer in NYC. The algorithm seems to have a preference for HDR pictures of cityscapes? And then the captions are all very generic / spammy sounding. It doesn't seem interesting. I don't have anything against following algorithmic content, but it should at least tell me something cool about the picture that I didn't know, etc.
- baddox 8y agoI’m not interested either, but I’m not at all surprised that there are at least 30,000 people who are interested in faux-HDR photos of NYC.
- timgilbert 8y agoYou're assuming that all 30,000 followers are actual people rather than more bots or spam accounts.
- ryanlol 8y agoWow. Already banned. Everyone does this, but IG never cares unless you somehow draw attention to yourself.
- minimaxir 8y agoWait, what? That literally just happened. I suppose Instagram is reading this thread. :p
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- bigzyg33k 8y agoIt looks like the account has been removed now
- vicbun 8y agolooks like instagram took down his account. So no more free food.
- mirimir 8y agoIn TFA, he says that he created other accounts like this. So if his OPSEC is good enough, he's still getting that free food. This was arguably just a sacrifice to get some publicity. Indeed, I'm guessing that he's selling these bots. Or at least, offering consulting services.
- terragon 8y ago8 days later, it’s unbanned again. I wonder why!
- darkstar999 8y agoMaybe it's more about not feeling like he's shilling the account, focusing on the methodology instead.
- dentemple 8y agoIronically, if he were to get real users (and begin to post real pics from the restaurants he visits), he may no longer be committing fraud.