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by oooshha 2584 days ago
Interesting... Some of the "influencer search" platforms eg heepsy allow users to download a limited number of email/phone details for influencers. I always wondered how they managed to get this info in bulk to begin witht
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I mean just like Twitter data is public, I always assumed that public Instagram profiles are public data too. Everyone can see their posts, likes, comments, followers and following, so what stops a computer from doing so?

Update: it's against FB's T&C to scrape and store this publicly viewable data. Quite convenient, they'll only sue / take action when a rule breaker becomes non-trivial in size or a nuisance