I find that in many cases you don't even need to have many followers. It's weird how the social media team tends to wield so much power. I think it's because companies see the ability for social media posts to go viral.

It's also quite literally an advertisement against the company. Similarly to how you can make people believe something if you just constantly bombard them with the message, a company can get a pretty bad image if people regularly see "my account was closed w/o recourse". And if people realize how volatile their accounts really are, Google (and Facebook etc) will have a massive problem.

I think that's what's behind a big movement to "de-Googlefy". Losing all your email, Drive files, etc., merely because you logging in from a share IP, which someone broke the TOS from, would be a pretty crappy deal. It makes you begin to really value data custody.

Almost at 5k followers, Twitter suspended 12 of my accounts and I could do nothing - got them to unsuspend once by filling the same form 12 times, and then everything got suspended again in a week. I gave up.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28482458

On the flip side, here. That is, those (company complaint incidents) are some of the few occasions I regret having never cultivated a social media world. When I'm on the hard end of some business/corporate injustice, and realise exactly how expendable and voluntary most of my so-called consumer's or citizen's rights are.

As a lone voice desperately holding his bowl out to a corporate giant, like a modern day Oliver Twist - and no army of social media friends behind me...