Following up on our previous article about the #EmiratesPromotion on Instagram, Apparently its a fake, the users EmiratesDubai and EmiratesDubai1 on Instgram were removed only 24 hours from revealing the proomotion, which was brought to our attention by Noora Al Qassimi on Twitter:
@interactiveme I just checked and emiratesdubai on instagram is gone so it probably wasn’t them
— Noora Al Qassimi (@NazAlQ) January 30, 2013
And although Emirates still haven’t got back to me (and I’m pretty sure they won’t) but we’re fairly certain that the campaign was a hoax, because this happened before on Instagram with other airlines as mentioned by lost dot on Twitter:
@nazalq @interactiveme @emirates bet it’s fake just as those news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57…
— lost dot (@thelostdot) January 30, 2013
I still don’t see what anyone has to gain by doing such a thing, can you think of any reasons? Let us know below.
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