Twitter Suspends Journalist After NBC Complains

If you’re attempting to watch the Olympics from the U.S., no one needs to tell you how miserable the coverage is. And if you’re on Twitter, you’ve likely tweeted the #NBCFail hashtag in frustration more than once.

But what if doing so resulted in your account getting suspended? If you retweeted one specific tweet from journalist @guyadams that may just happen!

Guy Adams is a journalist at The Independent and his account was suspended on Sunday after he tweeted the email address of the President of NBC Sports.

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