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Re:Confessions of an Instagram Influencer by brainfire on Friday December 02, 2016 @02:13PM (#13091392)
Seemingly-genuine comments like that could be a plausible future step for escalation of advertising.

I'd guess there are people who would "rent" access to their active social media accounts to a company operating a bot capable of writing subtle "recommendation"-style comments. Sort of a merger of blog-comment-spam-bots and paid "influencer" posts.

Re:Confessions of an Instagram Influencer by brbrodude on Friday December 02, 2016 @02:47PM (#13091685)
It's certainly possible, although repulsive.
Re:Confessions of an Instagram Influencer by ignasl on Monday December 05, 2016 @06:50AM (#13104813)
What an interesting idea.