NBC: Twitter alerted us to Guy Adams' tweets

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Twitter has been thrown under the bus by NBC, which said Twitter first alerted the network to the tweets of a journalist, who was then suspended from Twitter.
Guy Adams, the Los Angeles correspondent for the British publication The Independent, had been criticizing NBC since Friday through both Twitter and articles.

He was suspended Sunday after tweeting out the corporate email address of NBC Olympics President Gary Zenkel. Initially, NBC said it reported Adams' tweet to Twitter, which began the process that ended in Adams' suspension. Posting a user's private information is a violation of Twitter's terms of service, and Twitter requires that the user who was the target of the violation, or someone on behalf of the user, be the one to report the violation. But The Telegraph is now reporting that NBC says it was Twitter that first noticed Adams' tweets.


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