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  • Apr
  • 16
  • 2008

Twitter Saves Man From Egyptian Justice

UC Berkeley graduate journalism student James Karl Buck was arrested on April 10 without any charges in Egypt for photographing a demonstration. He used his mobile phone to twitter the message Arrested? to his 48 followers, who contacted UC Berkeley, the US Embassy and a number of press organizations on his behalf.

disclaimer: I love Twitter, I just think that as a crowd we still haven’t the right skills or tools to sip what’s right from the firehose of twits that gushes in our face when we “follow” hundreds of…

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