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Twitter reinstates British journalist after outcry Jul 31st 2012, 20:06 Tweet Share this Email Print Related News UPDATE 3-Olympics-Police make arrest over tweets to diver Daley Tue, Jul 31 2012 Twitter suspends reporter's account for NBC tweet Tue, Jul 31 2012 Olympics fans find ways to circumvent NBC's online control Tue, Jul 31 2012 UPDATE 5-Olympics-Ticket backlash overshadows Games Sun, Jul 29 2012 Twitter suffers second outage in five weeks Thu, Jul 26 2012 Analysis & Opinion MuniLand Snaps: July 31 Who’d want to host the Olympics? A Twitter page is displayed on a laptop computer in Los Angeles October 13, 2009. Credit: Reuters/Mario Anzuoni By Gerry Shih and Matthew Keys Tue Jul 31, 2012 4:06pm EDT (Reuters) - Twitter Inc reinstated a British journalist's account on Tuesday and apologized after an outcry over his suspension for posting an NBC-Universal executive's email address on the service threatened to tarnish the company's reputation. Twitter banned Guy Adams, a Los Angeles correspondent for The Independent newspaper, on Monday after he tweeted the work email address of NBC's Olympics division president Gary Zenkel. Adams violated Twitter's privacy policy, which prohibits users from revealing other users' private information, according to an email that Adams said he received from Twitter. Twitter's policy also says that if information is available elsewhere on the Internet, posting that information on Twitter is not a violation. The suspension provoked scorn from journalists and other Twitter users, who accused the service of being heavy handed. Zenkel's corporate email address is available on the Internet. Twitter has tried to use the Olympics to present itself as a "second screen" that offers interesting chatter to complement television broadcasts. It recently signed a non-financial partnership deal with NBC, which is owned by Comcast Corp , to curate Olympics-related tweets. "We want to apologize....we did mess up," Twitter said in a blog entry. The company admitted it pointed out Adams' tweet to NBC and encouraged the network to file a complaint. NBC Sports said on Tuesday that it had rescinded its complaint about Adams' tweet. "Our interest was in protecting our executive, not suspending the user from Twitter," said an email provided by NBC Sports spokesman Chris McCloskey. "We didn't initially understand the repercussions of our complaint, but now that we do, we have rescinded it." Earlier on Tuesday, the Daily Telegraph reported that McCloskey said Twitter told the network about Adams' tweets, which were consistently critical of the network. NBC declined to comment on McCloskey's remarks to the Telegraph. (Editing by Robert MacMillan, Andrew Hay and Leslie Gevirtz) Related Quotes and News Company Price Related News Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above.

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