Twitter to the Rescue
U.C. Berkeley student's Twitter messages alerted world to his arrest in Egypt: "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."
posted by Biz at 12:51 PM
7 Comments:
That's an amazing story about the power of Twitter. Was the journalism student ever released? Was that the only reason he was being held, photographing a demosnatration?
I delete my account for an error, and now I have a problem whit some of my twitters are null, what can i do?
please help me!!!!
no.pani@hotmail.com
The journalism student in question should thank his lucky stars that Twitter was working as intended that day. If he tried to tweet for help now he'd still be locked up...
It's now two days since Twitter stopped working properly. The lack of information is totally unprofessional, but, sadly, something I've come to expect.
Its nice to hear that. new technologies are amazingly helping humans.
It seems to me that if the Twitter site and the Twitter team's capacity for letting people know something's wrong are all on the same server, that might possibly explain why they couldn't let people know something was wrong. Kind of like if your mobile network goes on the fritz and then you can't call them on your mobile to find out what's wrong?
It's a free service, anyway. Lighten up.
Oh, even better. "Unprofessional," but they let your comment through moderation. I think you owe them an apology.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=26553
yes he was released. he re is a great thing Twitter could help to... providing information and helping journalists to send links and comments without sitting in front of a computer... good!
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