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Student Uses Twitter To Get Out Of Jail

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 BuckJames 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.