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July 30, 2012 11:41 pm GMT
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Olympic Journalist Ban: Why Twitter Got It Wrong
Ever heard the name Guy Adams before this weekend? How about Gary Zenkel? No, me neither. Not until Twitter suspended the former, a British journalist based in LA, for tweeting the corporate e-mail address of the latter, the president of NBC Olympics -- and created a tempest in a tea cup.
Not only was Twitter's reaction completely disproportionate, there's one major problem with it: he didn't actually violate Twitter's terms of service.
Adams, like a lot of us here on the West Coast, was upset that NBC had delayed broadcasting the London Olympics' opening ceremony Friday night -- so much so that the Pacific time zone was seeing it six hours after it actually happened (and three hou…
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