Last weekend CNN lead with a big story about James Buck, a graduate student in journalism from the University of California-Berkeley who was arrested last month in Mahalla, Egyptwhile covering an anti-government protest. Thinking quickly, James was able to send a one-word Twitter update: "Arrested." His followers in Egypt and back in the US reacted by contacting the university and the consulate on his behalf. Before long, James was updating Twitter with another one-word message, "Free."
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Here is the URL to his actual tweet, if you're interested:
http://twitter.com/jamesbuck/statuses/786571964
I just read that via email. Wow! Who knew Twitter was more than "a time-waster"...as my wife says ;-)
Brook Sarver
www.two10elevn.com
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