April 16, 2008
Student Gets University Help via Twitter After Egypt Arrest
A University of California at Berkeley graduate journalism student received help from the institution after sending out messages through Twitter while under arrest in Egypt, the San Jose Mercury News reports.
James Karl Buck was arrested while photographing a demonstration in Egypt. He sent out the message “Arrested” on microblogging service Twitter, and friends in his network quickly notified Berkeley and the U.S. Embassy. The next day a local attorney hired by his university got him out of jail, although his interpreter, who is not an American citizen, apparently remains behind bars.—Catherine Rampell
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