I can't help but feels some sense of entitlement though the story. How dare they to ban me from Twitter ?<p>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.<p>The interesting point was about the lack (or ban from) of twitter account and potential career prospect.
> "I had a social media freelancer supporting the start of the accounts,” Marin said, "and I suspect he bought some Twitter followers/bots, which I thought explained the suspension - until today.”<p>An uneducated assumption: that freelancer gave API access to some app usually used by Chinese propagandists, Luka and his father didn't go through the authorized apps since, and Twitter decided to really not dig deep into this false positive, but superficially confirmed that this account indeed gave access to some app that it shouldn't have.
This story doesn't shine a good light on the student, especially if he wants to be in the field of security he should be more savvy.<p>Either he bought followers, or gave suspicious apps authorization to post on his behalf, or his account was hacked.<p>None of the three seem good.
<a href="https://twitter.com/GeniusWu/status/1164029417737207808" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/GeniusWu/status/1164029417737207808</a><p>China News Service invites paying some 1.25 million yuan for 580,000 followers.