Whatever you made of the Olympics opening ceremony (in my opinion typically British with lots of eccentricity, in-jokes and humour) there was a particular ugly incident which we should all guard against.<\/p>\n
The general consensus is that US broadcaster NBC didn\u2019t do a particular good job when covering the event (it wasn\u2019t live and they missed out great chunks). But things got nasty when a UK journalists\u2019 Twitter account was suspended when he criticised the US network.<\/p>\n
And Twitter was forced to climb down after fellow Tweeters made their feelings felt with further digs at the US network.<\/p>\n
The journalist concerned, Guy Adams, complained about the poor coverage via a Tweet and included the email address of a NBC executive. He says that NBC only complained about the Tweet after it had been alerted by Twitter itself.<\/p>\n
Apparently Twitter policy is to temporarily suspend an account if it uses a tweet to harass, or intimidate someone.<\/p>\n
Most people didn\u2019t see it that way of course. They reckoned it was nice corporate speak for we had our ears bent by a leading US network and decided to play it safe.<\/p>\n
Twitter eventually apologised and said that their team had been a little zealous on this occasion. NBC also realised that they were attracting huge amounts of negative attention which had gone viral.<\/p>\n
In short, neither Twitter, nor NBC have come out of this incident particularly well.<\/p>\n
And the simple lesson is, don\u2019t be seen to be using account suspension as a form censorship, because it just won\u2019t work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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