Twitter suspends journalist over NBC tweets - Techradar.com
Twitter has come under fire for banning a journalist who tweeted critical comments about US broadcaster NBC.
Guy Adams, the Independent's Los Angeles bureau chief, published NBC exec Gary Zenkel's email address on the site as protest about the way the broadcaster covered the London Olympics opening ceremony.
He tweeted, "The man responsible for NBC pretending the Olympics haven't started yet is Gary Zenkel. Tell him what u think!"
Adams was disgruntled that NBC didn't air the ceremony live to viewers on the west coast of the US, citing a six-hour time delay as a "money-grabbing" move by the network.
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NBC says that Twitter alerted it to the tweet containing Zenkel's email address and banned Adams because posting other people's private information without their permission is against its user rules.
Its rules do state, "You may not publish or post other people's private and confidential information, such as credit card numbers, street address or Social Security/National Identity numbers, without their express authorization and permission" – although it makes no explicit reference to email addresses.
NBC and Twitter are currently working together on an Olympics Hub, curating tweets from athletes, fans and NBC staff throughout the Games.
In other Twitter-related news, police have arrested a 17-year-old for baiting diver Tom Daley after he came fourth in the synchronised diving 10m platform event on Monday afternoon.
Daley's father passed away last year, and so disappointed was Twitter user 'Rileyy69' with Daley's medalless performance began by sending a reply to Daley saying, "You let your dad down I hope you know that."
Daley retweeted the offending tweet to his 797,582 followers, prompting 29,025 retweets and a heated Twitter backlash against 'Rileyy69', whose account has now been suspended.
According to the police, 'Rileyy69''s has been arrested on suspicion of malicious communications - although the arrest is more likely to be related to later, more agressive tweets including actual death threats.
Via the Guardian, the Independent (1), (2)
Example album due out in November, says British rapper - BBC News
Example says his fourth studio album should be out by November.
The British rapper and singer released his last record, Playing in the Shadows, in August 2011.
"I went off the back of the last tour into writing this," the 30-year-old said. "Last year the album was out in August and we had four singles off the album.
"The week my last album came out I already had the song titles and album title for this next album."
ExampleBetween the arena tour and the European tour and festivals I've been finalising mixing down the album. I've got a little bit more to do now and it should be done in the next few weeks and released in November
Example wrote most of his latest album while in Australia in January and finished the process off in Los Angeles and New York.
Since then the artist says he has been trying to complete the recording while he had time between gigs.
"Between the arena tour and the European tour and festivals I've been finalising mixing down the album," he said.
"I've got a little bit more to do now and it should be done in the next few weeks and released in November.
"This album's been made everywhere. It's been made on planes and trains.
"I was in Australia last October doing Park Life tour and I was on a plane with Benga.
"We pretty much made a song from scratch on a four-hour flight which I ended up vocaling in Melbourne and then I got the guitars replayed in London and then I redid the rap in LA."
Example will also announce a 16-date UK arena tour just before his appearance at V Festival next month.
"There are some very exciting support acts," he said. "So watch out for that one."
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