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    Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
    Author: Andy Sternberg

    Cool story:

    U.C. Berkeley student’s Twitter messages alerted world to his arrest in Egypt - San Jose Mercury News

    Buck, 29, a former Oakland Tribune multimedia intern, used the ubiquitous short messaging service to tap out a single word on his cellular phone: ARRESTED. The message went out to the cell phones and computers of a wide circle of friends in the United States and to the mostly leftist, anti-government bloggers in Egypt who are the subject of his graduate journalism project.

    The next day, he walked out a free man with an Egyptian attorney hired by UC Berkeley at his side and the U.S. Embassy on the phone.

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