Student Uses Twitter To Get Out Of Jail
28 Comments June 5, 2008 1276 Views
Was checking my mail earlier morning when this headline from CNN caught my attention: “Freed man now uses Twitter to help friend“. Here’s a short summary and some excerpts from the article that I read from CNN.
James Karl Buck
James Karl Buck, an American student working on a photography project in Egypt for his master’s thesis was arrested together with his interpreter while taking photographs of local anti-government protests over low wages and rising food prices. He was able to get out of jail with the help of Twitter*.
James Karl Buck was released from a Mahalla jail after sending a one-word blog post from his cell phone through the Twitter Web site. The message — “Arrested” — alerted all of his friends on the site of his detention.
When his college found out about the situation, they hired a lawyer who then got him out of prison. Now that he’s a free man, Buck is using his Twitter network (611 followers as of writing) to help free his friend Mohammed Maree.
Mohammed Maree
“He’s only in prison … because he wanted to help me,” Buck said. “Now I’ve got to repay the favor.”
Mohammed Maree was an Egyptian veterinary student who offered to be his interpreter and help him with his project. Maree is still being detained in prison as of this moment.
CNN’s full story here
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If you’d like to get updates regarding this story and/or join in helping free Mohammed Maree from jail, you can follow James Buck on Twitter - http://twitter.com/jamesbuck or on his personal blog Journalism is Not a Crime.
*Twitter is a social-networking blog site that allows users to send status updates, or “tweets,” from cell phones, instant messaging services and Facebook in less than 140 characters.
*photos taken from CNN.com
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Good thing Twitter wasn’t down when it happened.
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Wow, Twitter is quite useful
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The twitter team should know this story, really.
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Good for him. I only hope that his friend will be able to be released as well. It is so lame that we have to be scared of places arresting you for no reason. Especially just taking a picture. I like how new technologies like Twitter are able to help people out like that.
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a way to go to get out of jail. Buti nga talaga Twitter was functioning well that time!
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that really interesting with the use of Twitter
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good thing his twitter is wired to his mobile… proof that today’s technology is powerful as ever
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Wow, what an incredible story! And to think that I’ve thumbed my nose at Twitter.
Oops. Long time no update ah..
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It’s good thing that there are still some people who would take such kind of risk in order to expose some things that the world should also know. I hope that he would be able to help his friend as well to get out from prison. Nice blog.
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I was just in Mexico and kept telling myself that if I ever got arrested I would do the same thing and become popular in the internet world. But I was all safe and nothing happened.
good thing his twitter followers did not transfer to plurkkkkk
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Fifteen years ago, this would not be possible. My how times change. Good for him he brought his cellfone along. If it were in the days of our lolas, it would have taken years before any word of his arrest. And a few more years for a lawyer to post bond.
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Interesting! I wish there is a Plurk story like this din. harhar.
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