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Small is beautiful: Twitter your way out of foreign jail!
By WDavidStephenson | April 26, 2008
This blog has certainly suffered since I began my infatuation with the lil’ microblogging phenom, Twitter (hmm, maybe I should use ManyEyes to graph the inverse relationship between the number of recent “tweets” to recent blog posts…).
It’s at least partially because I like to really put some serious effort into each post on this blog, while Twitter allows me to comment on a more stream-of-conscious basis. I’ve also become increasingly impressed with the every-expanding ecosystem of derivative applications that has evolved around Twitter, which, IMHO, is a reflection of:
- how important real-time, location-based information is today
- not to mention the growing range of mobile social network applications, which I’m particularly fond of because of their potential to spawn emergent behavior/wisdom of crowds.
At any rate, here’s yet another bit of evidence for Twitter’s versatility.
One of our far-flung correspondents, Pat Krolak, reports in with this CNN story about James Buck, an American grad student who’d just learned to Twitter several days before he was imprisoned in Egypt while documenting anti-government demonstrations earlier this month.
Buck was able to send a one-word (sometimes you don’t even need 140 characters!) tweet:
ARRESTED
after he and his translator were detained. That was enough to get his social network activated to liberate him. CONTINUED…
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