Twitter account suspension prompts user backlash

Re:Twitter account suspension prompts user backlash by brianwhitman on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @02:05PM (#4318742)

The article says "He quoted an NBC spokesman as saying: "Our social media department was actually alerted to it by Twitter and then we filled out the form and submitted it."

I can read this in one of two ways: Twitter (the company) alerted NBC, or Twitter users on the social network Twitter alerted NBC. There's not much clarity there, but obviously the former is scary and confusing and the latter happens all the time.

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Re:Twitter account suspension prompts user backlash by untog on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @02:27PM (#4318884)

the former is scary

Depends a lot on context. If Twitter had said "FYI, one of your e-mail addresses is currently publicly visible on our service, expect a deluge of e-mail", I don't see a huge problem. If they said "Hey, want us to ban this guy?" then that's something different.

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Re:Twitter account suspension prompts user backlash by shrikant on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @05:25PM (#4319697)

From here[1]:

The team working closely with NBC around our Olympics partnership did proactively identify a Tweet that was in violation of the Twitter Rules and encouraged them to file a support ticket with our Trust and Safety team to report the violation, as has now been reported publicly.

Looks like your latter situation is exactly how it went down.

[1] http://blog.twitter.com/2012/07/our-approach-to-trust-safety...

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Re:Twitter account suspension prompts user backlash by crag on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @04:14AM (#4321730)

OK then.. this is serious.

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