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I can't help but feels some sense of entitlement though the story. How dare they to ban me from Twitter ? If you paid a consultant and suddenly your number of

by seren 7y ago

I can't help but feels some sense of entitlement though the story. How dare they to ban me from Twitter ? If you paid a consultant and suddenly your number of followers greatly increase, aren't you a bit naive to think this was due to genuine interest ? Even more so, if you are positioning yourself as a cybersecurity expert. The interesting point was about the lack (or ban from) of twitter account and potential career prospect.

input_sh 7y ago
> If you paid a consultant and suddenly your number of followers greatly increase, aren't you a bit naive to think this was due to genuine interest ? I'm with you apart from this sentence. What can you do after the damage was done? I'd assume they thought the consultant was legitimate, the opposite proved to be the case, and the two of them had no idea what to do afterwards. Ask bots to unfollow you? Create a new account and lose the legitimate ones you'd have regardless of this? Admit to Twitter's support that you gave access to someone illegitimate? Their situation admittedly sucks, but I have no clue how would I undo the damage if I made the same mistake.
- seren 7y ago
  I don't know enough about the actual story to comment much further, and I don't know exactly how many followers had the account before & after, so this might not be realistic, but blocking really obvious fake followers would make you less suspicious in the end.
- majewsky 7y ago
  > Create a new account and lose the legitimate ones you'd have regardless of this? This. On the old account, tweet something like "I worked with a consultant who turned out to just sell fake followers. I want to leave those behind, so please follow my new account @foobar instead."
makomk 7y ago
Errrm, the article isn't complaining about him being banned from Twitter, it's complaining about Twitter publicly accusing him of being a Chinese agent and standing by that rather suspect conclusion.

by seren 7y ago

input_sh 7y ago

> If you paid a consultant and suddenly your number of followers greatly increase, aren't you a bit naive to think this was due to genuine interest ? I'm with you apart from this sentence. What can you do after the damage was done? I'd assume they thought the consultant was legitimate, the opposite proved to be the case, and the two of them had no idea what to do afterwards. Ask bots to unfollow you? Create a new account and lose the legitimate ones you'd have regardless of this? Admit to Twitter's support that you gave access to someone illegitimate? Their situation admittedly sucks, but I have no clue how would I undo the damage if I made the same mistake.

seren 7y ago
I don't know enough about the actual story to comment much further, and I don't know exactly how many followers had the account before & after, so this might not be realistic, but blocking really obvious fake followers would make you less suspicious in the end.
majewsky 7y ago
> Create a new account and lose the legitimate ones you'd have regardless of this? This. On the old account, tweet something like "I worked with a consultant who turned out to just sell fake followers. I want to leave those behind, so please follow my new account @foobar instead."

makomk 7y ago

Errrm, the article isn't complaining about him being banned from Twitter, it's complaining about Twitter publicly accusing him of being a Chinese agent and standing by that rather suspect conclusion.