Welcome.
I read your first post and wanted to let you know cross posting your own external content is fine. Cheetah is here to stop plagiarism and imposters. You can visit Steemit chat and ask to be whitelisted under the channel steemitabuse. Just mention Cheetah. If he's around he'll find you.
You're one step ahead of everyone since you posted your twitter link with a tweet back to Steemit! It's appreciated. Cross posting links is encouraged since there is no "official" way of verifying users as of yet or keeping track of those verified.
Once again, welcome. Look forward to reading some of your posts. Unlike twitter there also isn't an easy way to keep up with those you follow yet. I recommend checking out steemstats.com. It has some nifty tools to keep up with users you follow, comments, and replies.
Cheetah is self-made police that has no authority to make any rules in here. This is free social media.
Privacy has value. There are many in here who don't want to sell their privacy.
It has the authority it's SP grants to it, there was more than a single dude empowering the idea of the cheetah bot so yes its a free social media (decentralized if i may mention) that's the precise reason people can make their own rules. if someone doesn't like the rules then they can simply disagree and make their own rules/police-bots.
Thanks for the welcome and tips