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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Twitter Got Student Out Of Prison

U.C. Berkeley student's Twitter messages alerted world to his arrest in Egypt - San Jose Mercury News:
"When Egyptian police scooped up UC Berkeley graduate journalism student James Karl Buck, who was photographing a noisy demonstration, and dumped him in a jail cell last week, they didn't count on Twitter"
via [ Chris Brogan - College Student Twitters Arrest in Egypt ]