NBC Retracts Complaint, Guy Adams Is Back On Twitter

In other words, Twitter can and may end your account on a whim, and unless you can drum up sufficient attention, you'll get PayPal'd.<p>How can Twitter <i>still</i> not have explained themselves? It makes them look extremely shitty, and they've had ample opportunity to come out of this looking like well-behaved guys. Maybe they didn't find it a PR priority.<p>Recall that this is not the first time something like this has happened: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2647130" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2647130</a>.<p>- - -<p>EDIT 50 minutes later: They explained themselves: <a href="http://blog.twitter.com/2012/07/our-approach-to-trust-safety-and.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.twitter.com/2012/07/our-approach-to-trust-safety...</a>.

Twitter has released a statement on the issue: <a href="http://blog.twitter.com/2012/07/our-approach-to-trust-safety-and.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.twitter.com/2012/07/our-approach-to-trust-safety...</a>

Twitter has been compromised. They may backpeddle all they want, but they have shown their hand. They will pull tweets and accounts when it serves their interest.

Twitter is not a public utility. If you want to put your namespace in the hands of a private company that offers their service for free, then by all means use them.<p>Organizations that want to retain control of their own namespace should host an OStatus compliant service on their own infrastructure.

Twitter's 'Olympic Moment' will go down as their jump the shark moment possibly.<p>Maybe a new meme is when a useful/cool service sells out/gets taken over by the suits/turns on developers it is the 'Olympic Moment' in that services lifespan, representing that it is all downhill from here.

Have NBC (aka NoBloodyClue) made a official statement saying they retracted?<p>Also given this story: <a href="http://www.wetpaint.com/network/articles/justin-bieber-posts-another-random-phone-number-on-twitter-facing-lawsuit-this-time" rel="nofollow">http://www.wetpaint.com/network/articles/justin-bieber-posts...</a><p>Then I'd have to ask - by what standards twitter operate on as his account is still active.<p>maybe if the internet went into uproar about it then sanity would prevail upon that one as well.<p>But glad to see Mr Adams restored for a crime he did not commit.