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I actually did that years back when my carrier offered free Facebook and I had no mobile connection. It was essentially just a really dodgy HTTP proxy with their messaging system and another account sitting on a remote server. I got it responding to basic requests, but it took a lot more effort than I could be bothered with. I can only imagine that continuous use would get you banned very quickly under their spam filter.

Just for funsies, you can prefix base64 messages with ?OTR?v2? and they'll be recognised as OTR encrypted messages, which replaces them in the web view with "[encrypted]".

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