NBC Exec: Twitter Told Us How To Get Journalist Suspended

[Purveyor]

Twitter alerted NBC to a post containing an executive’s email address, prompting NBC to file a complaint that lead to the suspension of a reporter’s Twitter account, according to The Telegraph.

“Our social media dept was actually alerted to it by Twitter,” NBC Sports vice-president of communications Christopher McCloskey via email said of the tweet by Guy Adams, the Los Angeles correspondent for The Independent. “Then we filled out the form and submitted it.”

On Monday, Deadspin.com reported that an NBC spokesperson had told Sports Illustrated that it was the network who made the first move against Adams, whose account was suspended after he posted NBC Olympics president Gary Zenkel’s company email in an effort to get his followers to submit their complaints about NBC’s coverage of the London Games. Adams had heavily criticized the network for airing events on time-delay.

As The Wall Street Journal reports, the two companies have teamed up during the Games, exchanging tweet promotions for on-air mentions during the competitions.

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/31/nbc-exec-twitter-told-us-how-to-get-journalist-suspended/

[leveymg]

1. Do the Twit rules say posting an email address is a bannable offense? eom

[Tom Ripley]

2. Apparently a corporate email acccount qualifies as "personal and confidential" information

I guess since corporations are people...

[leveymg]

3. By the same stroke, no posting a brick and mortar address for a corporate minion?

Guess that makes the use of Twitter for organizing protests and petitions just about impossible in the USA.

But, NBC and other approved corporate media lauds the unrestricted use of Twitter in uprisings and protests in the Arab world as almost essential to democracy. But, I gather, not so much here.

See,

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Related:

http://english.alarabiya.net/views/2012/04/06/205838.html

[Ruby the Liberal]

4. Thats what is so humorous.

It wasn't a "personal email" as originally claimed, it was his NBC email, which is published all over the web.

As far as "bannable offense", Keith re-tweeted this link today, so apparently, its selective:

http://jimromenesko.com/2012/07/31/explanation-please-twitter/

(Edit - wrong link)

[Ruby the Liberal]

5. Guy Adams responded:

Here are three things that NBC prevented their public from being able to watch on network television so far this Olympic Games: live footage of the opening ceremony; live footage of Saturday's swimming showdown between Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte; live footage of the USA men's basketball "dream team."

A fourth thing they do not want people to see is the email address of Gary Zenkel, the executive responsible for this shambles. And a fifth thing is my Twitter feed, which over the weekend contained a couple of dozen occasionally uncouth observations about their coverage, several of which were accompanied by the trending hashtag: "#NBCfail."

-snip-

Twitter's guidelines forbid users from publishing what they call "private" information, including "private email addresses". There is plenty of sense in this. But I did not Tweet a private email address. I Tweeted a corporate address for Mr Zenkel, which is widely listed online, and is identical in form to that of tens of thousands of those at NBC.

I was not contacted by NBC or Twitter before my account was suspended. If they had dropped me a line, I might – might! – have quietly deleted the offending Tweet. Instead, they wandered into a PR controversy which has resulted in hundreds of thousands more people being made aware of its existence. Like any right thinking-person, I take the issue of online bullying seriously. I would hate for anyone to come to harm as a result of something I uploaded to the internet. But I'm at a loss to see how a bit of forthright correspondence from a disgruntled public could be anything more than a minor annoyance to a power-broker of Mr Zenkel's lofty status. I'm still awaiting a detailed explanation from Twitter as to why my account was immediately suspended. On the face of it, their reaction seems heavy-handed.

More: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/guy-adams-i-thought-the-internet-age-had-ended-this-kind-of-censorship-7988208.html

[DCKit]

6. I agree with Guy Adams - Worst Olympic Coverage Ever. nt

[Luminous Animal]

7. Also, young man arrested for tweeting criticism of an athlete...

http://london2012.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/twitter-criticism-of-british-diver-leads-to-arrest/

A 17-year-old man who told the British Olympic diver Tom Daley on Twitter that he disappointed his late father by failing to win an Olympic medal on Monday was arrested by the police on “suspicion of malicious communications.”A 17-year-old man who told the British Olympic diver Tom Daley on Twitter that he disappointed his late father by failing to win an Olympic medal on Monday was arrested by the police on “suspicion of malicious communications.”

[truebrit71]

8. His account has now been restored...

..although the back-story still hasn't been fully explained...Twitter is blaming NBC, NBC is blaming Twitter and they're both in bed with each other for the Olympics...so no conflict there then...