Twittering to Freedom

By Curtiss Martin in briefsNews on April 25, 2008

A graduate student named James Karl Buck helped free himself from an Egyptian jail by twittering ‘arrested’ from his cell phone. Distress signal 2.0?

Via CNN and WaPo

Curtiss P. Martin grew up in a geodesic dome on the side of a mountain in Southern Appalachia. Now he serves as ScribeMedia's clean technology editor in a tall building in downtown Manhattan.

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2 comments for “Twittering to Freedom”

  1. Further proof that my excessive texting is completely legitimate, and possibly life-saving. :)

    Posted by Rachel Harper | May 2, 2008, 1:16 pm

  2. yup, 100% needed. (fellow insane texter)

    Posted by dan | May 4, 2008, 4:14 pm

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