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by untog 5073 days ago
the former is scary

Depends a lot on context. If Twitter had said "FYI, one of your e-mail addresses is currently publicly visible on our service, expect a deluge of e-mail", I don't see a huge problem. If they said "Hey, want us to ban this guy?" then that's something different.

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From here[1]:

The team working closely with NBC around our Olympics partnership did proactively identify a Tweet that was in violation of the Twitter Rules and encouraged them to file a support ticket with our Trust and Safety team to report the violation, as has now been reported publicly.

Looks like your latter situation is exactly how it went down.

[1] http://blog.twitter.com/2012/07/our-approach-to-trust-safety...

OK then.. this is serious.