In the past 3 months, I have managed to grow a Twitter account to around 4000 followers.
I've done this by consistently putting in 2-4 hours every single day including weekends, and I was seeing great results with very high engagement. My account was poised to overtake the big names in the space.
However, throughout these months, I was plagued by bot follower attacks - my account would get followed by 20k+ bot followers each time these attacks occur. I came to learn that this is a malicious attack where your account get mass reported for spam / manipulation by the attacker.
Using custom and off the shelf tools, I worked on removing and preventing these attacks until it happened again recently.
Finally, the attackers got what they wanted and my account was permanently suspended. I appealed but it was quickly rejected with zero explanation.
Does anyone by any chance have any contacts at Twitter or could assist in the matter?