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Twitter restores Guy Adams’ account as it admits “we did mess up”

By @gordonmacmillan // 1 August, 2012 – 7:59 am // 3 Comments

A storm in a Twitter Cup. Guy Adams account is suspended and reinstated over NBC tweetIt was a storm in a Twitter cup. Guy Adams the Independent journalist who had his account suspended, after publishing the email address of an NBC executive, has had his Twitter account reinstated.

In a blog post reminding users about its private information policy and its Terms of Service Twitter admitted that the team working with NBC on its Olympics coverage did over step the mark and pro-actively flagged Adams’ tweet to NBC and told the broadcaster how to make a complaint.

For that part of the story Twitter held its hands up and apologised admitting “that we did mess up”. It went further, to reassure Twitter users, and said that “this behaviour was not acceptable and undermines the trust we users have in us”. Read More »

Twitter suspends Independent journalist Guy Adams’ account after NBC tweet

By @gordonmacmillan // 30 July, 2012 – 6:26 pm // 3 Comments

Twitter has suspended the account of the Independent’s Los Angeles correspondent, Guy Adams, after a tweet criticising NBC’s wobbly Olympics’ coverage, which has been trending on Twitter under the hashtag #NBCfail.

NBC has confirmed it did file a complaint with Twitter and the account of @guyadams has since been suspended.

The suspension followed a tweet from Adams from that included the email address of the NBC executive responsible for the US broadcaster’s Olympic coverage.

UPDATE: - Adams has since published an article on the Independent about his suspension (see below).

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