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The Twitter Underground Economy: A Blooming Business | The Barracuda Labs Internet Security Blog

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The Twitter Underground Economy: A Blooming Business
– A study on Dealers, Abusers and fake Twitter Accounts
by Jason Ding, Research Scientist

Many people dream of becoming popular or famous, and Twitter provides an outlet to make this possible. Most Twitter users try the standard way to get popular and gain followers: constantly tweet funny quotes or comments, discuss breaking events, or disclose information that many people want (like Guy Adams did). However, some Twitter users look for unusual ways to make themselves appear more desirable and become popular faster. One of these ways is buying Twitter followers, which right or wrong, is a significantly growing trend.

Twitter bloque le compte d’un journaliste trop critique
►http://www.lemonde.fr/jeux-olympiques/article/2012/07/31/twitter-bloque-le-compte-d-un-journaliste-trop-critique_1740771_1616891.html

Twitter s’est attiré les foudres d’utilisateurs mardi 31 juillet pour avoir bloqué le compte d’un journaliste britannique ayant critiqué la retransmission des Jeux olympiques de Londres par la chaîne américaine NBC, partenaire du réseau social, et diffusé le mail professionnel d’un responsable de la chaîne.

Guy Adams, correspondant à Los Angeles du journal installé à Londres The Independent, avait exprimé sa colère sur Twitter face à la décision de NBC d’assurer la diffusion lundi de finales de natation en différé, alors que les résultats étaient déjà connus de nombreux téléspectateurs. Peu après, le journaliste a été suspendu du site de micromessages pour avoir publié dans un tweet l’adresse courriel de l’un des chefs de NBC.

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#Twitter does something really, really, really stupid - will they fix it? - Boing Boing
►http://boingboing.net/2012/07/30/twitter-does-something-really.html

Twitter suspended Guy Adams, a journalist from the UK paper The Independent after Adams posted the email address of an NBC exec and urged his followers to send in email complaining about the network’s (shamefully bad) handling of its Olympics broadcasts. Dan Gillmor in the Guardian has some context about how totally, boneheadedly stupid Twitter is being here, and what they need to do to fix it.

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Twitter suspends British journalist critical of NBC’s Olympics coverage | Technology | guardian.co.uk

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Twitter suspends British journalist critical of NBC’s Olympics coverage

Social media site sparks wave of indignation for banning Independent journalist Guy Adams after complaint from NBC

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Some speculated that NBC had asked Twitter to remove Adams’s account after critical tweets.

Twitter has brought down a hail of critical tweeting on its own head by suspending the account of a British newspaper’s Los Angeles correspondent following his acerbic reporting of NBC’s coverage of the Olympics.

The social media network hummed with the indignation of thousands of its users after the Twitter feed of Guy Adams of the Independent disappeared. The paper’s deputy editor, Archie Bland, confirmed the suspension, calling it “heavy-handed”.