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Twitter Boots Critic of NBC For Tweeting Exec's Email Address

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the was-that-wrong? dept.

netbuzz writes "Guy Adams, a Los Angeles-based correspondent for The Independent of London, had his Twitter account suspended today, allegedly for having violated a Twitter privacy policy when he tweeted the workplace email address of an NBC Sports executive. The Internet is abuzz with accusations – no make that assumptions – that Twitter muzzled Adams because Adams was tweeting up a storm of protest over NBC's coverage of the Games. However, Twitter says it was because it prohibits the tweeting of 'non-public, personal email addresses.' Whether Adams did that or not appears debatable." Update: 07/31 17:48 GMT by S : Adams's Twitter account has been reinstated.

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  1. Re:the email add. was out there. by Goose+In+Orbit · · Score: 5, Informative

    Worse still - they went to commercial during the tribute to the victims of the 7/7 London bombing. Can you imagine how much trouble they'd be in for doing the same to the 9/11 victims?

  2. Re:the email add. was out there. by Blue+Stone · · Score: 5, Informative

    first.last@nbcuni.com

    That's the template used by NBC for their CORPORATE emails. Replace "first.last" with the name of any exec and that's the amazingly private super-secret personal details the journalist had his account killed for.

    The NBC executive was called Gary Zenkel.

    This post would be a violation of Twitters TOS!

    --
    Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. - Ambrose Bierce
  3. Re:the email add. was out there. by MickyTheIdiot · · Score: 5, Informative

    welcome to the Streisand effect!

    I bet their exchange server is choking as we speak. There's little doubt it's exchange, either...