Twitter “Saves” Berkeley Student Arrested in Egypt
Comments(0)A Berkeley journalism student, James Buck, was arrested in Cairo and notified his friends by posting one word, “arrested,” to Twitter. Here’s the story from — of all places — the Daily Cal. One of the local TV news programs picked it up last night, where I saw it. He also kept calling contacts and posting updates to Twitter, and the university sent lawyers who negotiated his release.
Updating the world about one’s minute-to-minute activities can sometimes be worthwhile.
