Twitter 'alerted NBC to British journalist's critical tweets' - suspends account

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11 pointsalanmeaney5 comments

This was on HN earlier, the crucial detail was that the journalist was tweeting personal information for an NBC executive (his email address) which is a violation of Twitter's policies.

It wasn't his personal address -- it was his easily google-able, systematically defined (firstname.lastname@nbcuni.com) corporate email address.

No it's not, because 1) it's a corporate email address, 2) it was posted online in other locations prior to the tweet being posted, and 3) Twitter states on their website: "If information was previously posted or displayed elsewhere on the Internet prior to being put on Twitter, it is not a violation of this policy."

It is purely logical that Twitter act within the best interest of its commercial partners, personally I'm not sure how this is newsworthy.

by that logic if the Syrian govt were to sponsor twitter they should suspend all accounts that criticize them?

I think if there was no email address in the tweets and the journalist had his account suspended then this would be very newsworthy.

At the moment at least twitter have a leg (albeit shaky one) to stand on.

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