Twitter = Get Out of Jail Free Card

According to a CNN article, a U.S. college student was reporting on a protest in Egypt when he and a translator were arrested. Using a new internet craze and his cell phone, he sent one word to a Web site and his friends sent forth immediately to get him released from jail.

The word? “Arrested.” The craze? Twitter.

Read the article here.

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