When UC Berkeley journalism graduate student James Karl Buck was grabbed by police in the Egyptian industrial city of Mahalla El-Kobra while photographing a noisy demonstration, he sent a one-word text message to Twitter: “Arrested.” That eventually got him out of jail. His Twitter followers — friends who receive a Twitter user’s messages are known as “followers” — promptly called UC Berkeley, the U.S. Embassy in Egypt and the media. The University then swung into action and got him out.
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Student Journalist Twitters Himself Out of the Pen
Posted by: Richard Adhikari April 17, 2008 11:59 AMWhen UC Berkeley journalism graduate student James Karl Buck was grabbed by police in the Egyptian industrial city of Mahalla El-Kobra while photographing a noisy demonstration, he sent a one-word text message to Twitter: “Arrested.” That eventually got him out of jail. His Twitter followers — friends who receive a Twitter user’s messages are known as “followers” — promptly called UC Berkeley, the U.S. Embassy in Egypt and the media. The University then swung into action and got him out.