Ms Yingluck - Thailand's first female prime minister - described the Twitter attack as a "violation of people's personal rights" and suspended her account - PouYingluck.
They could have simply warned Adams and deleted the offending tweet but nope, they not only suspended his account, they also made all of his tweets invisible.
On Wednesday evening, the microblogging service suspended the account of Operation: Payback, a group most recently devoted to launching cyberattacks against anyone perceived as an enemy of WikiLeaks.
In July Twitter briefly suspended the account of a journalist who had published the e-mail address of a manager at NBC while criticising it for lacklustre coverage of the London Olympics.
The WICB disciplinary committee had said they would prefer for Samuels not to face a ban, recommending a suspended sentence on account of Samuels' good behaviour.
Earlier in the Games, NBC came under fire for filing a complaint over tweets by Guy Adams, the Los Angeles-based journalist whose Twitter account was temporarily suspended after he criticized NBC for its Olympics coverage.