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At least now when someone asks me why I’m on Twitter I have a valid reason… you just never know when you might suddenly find yourself in an Egyptian prison.

Student ‘Twitters’ his way out of Egyptian jail:

James Karl Buck helped free himself from an Egyptian jail with a one-word blog post from his cell phone.

Buck, a graduate student from the University of California-Berkeley, was in Mahalla, Egypt, covering an anti-government protest when he and his translator, Mohammed Maree, were arrested April 10.

On his way to the police station, Buck took out his cell phone and sent a message to his friends and contacts using the micro-blogging site Twitter.

The message only had one word. “Arrested.”

Within seconds, colleagues in the United States and his blogger-friends in Egypt — the same ones who had taught him the tool only a week earlier — were alerted that he was being held.

I wonder if being in an Egyptian prison is anything like the experience you can expect in a Turkish prison.