Twitter Apologizes for Mishandling Journalist’s Suspended Account – WSJ.com

NBC said it filed a complaint with Twitter for breaches of Twitter guidelines that prohibit the dissemination of personal information on the short-messaging service. An NBC spokesman told the Telegraph newspaper that Twitter had notified NBC about Mr. Adams’s message with Mr. Zenkel’s email address. After Mr. Adams’s account was restored, he quoted an email message he said was from Twitter that said "the complainant" retracted their original request for an account suspension.

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“Our interest was in protecting our executive, not suspending the user from Twitter,” an NBC spokesman said Tuesday. “We didn’t initially understand the repercussions of our complaint, but now that we do, we have rescinded it.”

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