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

• endianswap 14y ago
  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.
  • darrellsilver 14y ago
    It wasn't his personal address -- it was his easily google-able, systematically defined (firstname.lastname@nbcuni.com) corporate email address.
  • LoganCale 14y ago
    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."
• ihsw 14y ago
  It is purely logical that Twitter act within the best interest of its commercial partners, personally I'm not sure how this is newsworthy.
  • alanmeaney 14y ago
    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.