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by elastic_church 3381 days ago
I think the part that you are missing is that nobody cares about company Terms of Service.

The consequences are nonexistent to negligible at best.

If in this case Instagram kills someone's account because of this service, then Statimgram takes on the possible liability of damages if its worth it to the brand.

Having an understanding of how people spin up accounts on Instagram and build mass real targeted followers quickly and cheaply, it wouldn't even be worth it to sue. But again, Statimgram's liability. Low risk proposition though.
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GrinningFool 3381 days ago
> The consequences are nonexistent to negligible at best.

Unless you build a business model around violating them, and they shut you down when they discover it...

Arbitrary changes are always a risk when it comes to building for a third party platform, but if you're violating the ToS from the start, it's just asking for a 'worst case' scenario for your company and customers.

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ceejayoz 3381 days ago
> The consequences are nonexistent to negligible at best.

Not in all cases. I work for a company that has a Facebook app at its core, and while we'd love to use a service like this to post to Instagram, it'd risk Facebook shutting our main app's access to the Facebook API down.

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