Twitter is confronting a user recoil after suspending the account of a publisher who had criticised NBCUniversal's coverage of the Olympic Games.
The US TV network had complained that Independent journal match Guy Adams had posted the email residence of a of its executives.
But Mr Adams has purported the censure was usually done after Twitter had alerted NBC to his message.
Twitter mentioned it "does not actively guard users' accounts".
However, the amicable network refused to confer Mr Adams's case, adage "it was firm process not to criticism on particular users" for privacy reasons.
Twitter shaped a partnership with NBC forward of the Games to emanate a page highlighting messages from NBC personalities, athletes and fans during the event.
The broadcaster paid $1.18bn (752m) is to US announce rights to the Olympics.
Several users have retweeted the executive's email residence in objection at the suspension.
Mr Adams - who is based Los Angeles - posted a summary final Friday criticising NBC's preference to announce the Games' gap rite with a time-delay to be able to aim a prime-time audience.
On the US's easterly coastline it was shown with a three-and-a-half hours delay, on the west coastline the gap was up to six-and-a-half hours.
This caused problems for users who suffer swapping explanation about leading events on amicable network sites.
"The human accountable for NBC sanctimonious the Olympics haven't proposed nonetheless is Gary Zenkel. Tell him what u think," Mr Adams tweeted, referring to NBC's Olympics president.
He moreover enclosed Mr Zenkel's business email residence in the message.
Mr Adams mentioned when he checked his account on Sunday he had received a summary adage it had been suspended.
NBC Sports subsequently expelled a matter confirming it had called is to action.
"We filed a censure with Twitter since a user tweeted the personal data of a of our executives," it said.
"According to Twitter, this is a breach of their privacy policy. Twitter alone levies discipline."
Mr Adams then published an essay adage a Daily Telegraph publisher had forwarded him an email from NBC.
He quoted an NBC orator as saying: "Our amicable media subdepartment was obviously alerted to it by Twitter and then you filled out the form and submitted it."
Twitter's conditions and conditions say posting other person's in isolation and trusted information, inclusive "non-public, personal email addresses" is a breach of its rules.
But Mr Adams mentioned he had done nothing wrong, as the residence he had used was a corporate a based on the same network used by NBC's other employees and could simply be worked out by "anyone in receive of 30 seconds of giveaway time and access to Google".
Many Twitter users have advance out in encouragement of Mr Adams.
"Scandal that someone should be criminialized for voicing an opinion," tweeted London-based Nicholas Pritchard .
"I regard Twitter's postponement of Guy Adams' account hurts its own brand. A lot," posted George Maschke from the Netherlands.
Among the critics were others entangled in the media industry.
"Twitter's postponement of @guyadams jars with company's affirm to be the giveaway debate wing of the giveaway debate party," wrote the Guardian's special projects editor Paul Lewis.
"I wouldn't have posted the email address. But Twitter's stealing his account was outrageous," updated Dan Gillmor , from the Arizona State University's college of journalism.
Several users posted internet links to websites that had formerly published Mr Zenkel's meeting details. Some moreover reposted the executive's email residence to Twitter.
When contacted by the BBC, the amicable network would not criticism on either these users moreover faced sanctions.
NBC has highlighted that a record 40.7 million people watched its coverage of the gap ceremony, adage it was "a great early pointer that our plan of pushing people to watch NBC in prime-time is working".
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