When the event was screened, hours later, large portions were edited out to allow more time for commercial breaks including a tribute to the July 7 bombing victims.
It has also been criticised for its factual errors, including placing Australia in Europe on a website profile, length of advertisements and poor quality commentating.
Mr Adams, 34, urged his nearly 4,400 followers to contact the man in charge of the network?s Games coverage after the series of blunders and criticisms from viewers.
"The man responsible for NBC pretending the Olympics haven't started yet is Gary Zenkel. Tell him what u think! Email.... )
He also called Jim Bell, the network?s executive producer of its Games coverage a ?professional idiot?.
He had also written a negative piece about its coverage titled: ?As America succeeds at the Games, back home all the talk is about #NBCfail.?
Officials from the network, who have sent more than 2,700 people to London to cover the Games, complained to Twitter about the post regarding Mr Zenkel's email address and on Monday, Mr Adams?s personal account was suspended.
It is understood he received the following message explaining the decision: ?It is a violation of the Twitter rules to post the private and confidential information of others.?
But the decision to suspend his account provoked swift condemnation worldwide from Twitter users. At one stage NBC was one of the most talked about topics on the microblogging website.
Archie Bland, the newspaper?s deputy editor, said that the actions were ?heavy-handed?.
Matthew Garrahan, the Financial Times? LA correspondent posted: ?Ominous: Twitter has shut down @guyadams? account after #NBC complained about tweets he wrote that criticised its #Olympics coverage.?
Last night a Twitter spokesman said the organisation did not comment on individual accounts.
An NBC spokesman said: ?We filed a complaint with Twitter because a user tweeted the personal information of one of our executives. According to Twitter, this is a violation of their privacy policy. Twitter alone levies discipline.?
Last night Mr Bell called for "some perspective" about the perceived failings of NBC.
He added on Twitter: "171 hours of Olympics on TV in Atlanta '96. NBCU offering over 5,000 hours of Oly content from London '12." Mr Adams was unavailable for comment on Monday night.
But a friend told The Daily Telegraph: "At the moment he just wants an explanation and to go back on Twitter.
"He wants to get to the bottom of what happened because it has significant implications for free speech.
"He believes online bullying is a very real problem, but this was an official email address."
On Monday night he wrote about the row in a piece for his newspaper titled, "#NBCFail: Journalist at The Independent has Twitter account suspended after complaining about NBC's coverage of London 2012 Olympics".
He wrote: Since I?m still trying to get to bottom of the hows and whys of my suspension, which conceivably raises various ethical issues relevant to journalism in the online era, it seems premature to comment further.
"Except, perhaps to say that I do not wish Mr Zenkel any harm."
On his Twitter profile he writes: "I'm The Independent's man in Los Angeles, and according to our lawyers must also say here that I sometimes tweet in a personal capacity."
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