Student 'Twitters' his way out of Egyptian jail

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/04/25/twitter.buck/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

by rms • 18 years ago

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shawndrost• 18 years ago

"Twitter is a social-networking blog site"

Hah! The pace of the internet makes terms obsolete just as cnn starts to use them.

mattmaroon• 18 years ago

That is hilarious. In fairness though, I can't think of a good way to explain Twitter to a CNN-style audience, and I use it.

paul92902• 18 years ago

Twitter indexes thoughts and conversations, other words personal consumer information! Great for market researchers, as well as a company's who want to monitor brand and services!

I hate X company tweeted 1,000 times becomes very useful!

jrockway• 18 years ago

Typing "I hate <company>" into Google is the same thing. Twitter just lowers the barrier to entry (for writing "i hate foo").

paul92902• 18 years ago

But...more people will do this due to Twitter's 140 character limit! Also if you use a twitter search you can quickly gleam and tally up marketing data and monitor brand in a quicker fashion; demographics are easier to obtain too!

I don't understand why this community nor the digg community does not see the immense value of indexing short conversations of millions of people? After all it's information and what does Google index and make billions from?

redorb• 18 years ago

good to see a free service, that is useful. Thats one way to make a loyal customer

iamdave• 18 years ago

Throws a pebble in the pond.

dimitry• 18 years ago

I don't get that title... It suggests that Twitter somehow helped him get out of jail, but... it didn't.

He just had his phone on him and Twittered from time to time.

crisachow14• 18 years ago

Wow. I am surprised he was able to get out of jail. I am sure if I put something similar on twitter, my 6 followers would eventually read it and then reply 'oh, bummer.'

Student 'Twitters' his way out of Egyptian jail

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