A bit on the technology behind this: Raspberry Pis (with a custom ARM cross-build of Android's ADB), Low-Cost Android Tablets, Amazon S3. Workers are written in Python, backend in Ruby/Sinatra, front-end is plain and simple ERB. It's not hacking the API (like many others do), it's not using any priviledged access to Instagram – it's really just simulating many individual humans doing their thing, except it's done by robots.
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