At the end of July, Twitter suspended the account of Guy Adams, a reporter for the UK’s Independent, after he posted the corporate email address of Jim Bell, Producer of NBC Olympics, and said less than flattering things about his expectations for how NBC would do in their Olympics coverage.   Adams reportedly claimed that he felt the email account was open to public use since it showed up in Google search results.  However, privacy concerns were widely expressed over his decision to share the executive’s contact details, and thus his account was suspended.  Apparently NBC complained, Twitter listened, and Guy’s account was shut down. After a bit of hullabaloo, Twitter then changed heart and re-activated his Twitter account.  I received several great questions related to this, collectively boiling down to the following five: (more…)