Social Media Power: UC Berkeley Student Twitters Out of Egyptian Prison
CNN is reporting that Student James Karl Buck twittered his way out of jail with single-word text messages after being arrested. The “twit” (messages) communicated to his “tweeple” (friends) on micro blogging platform “Twitter,” resulted in pals hiring a lawyer. Buck twittered all during the experience, the transcript of which is visible here. This is yet another case study speaking to the societal power of modern networking tools.
There is a lot of passion regarding Twitter in the search marketing community, with top SEOs/social media pros like Lee Odden and DoshDosh having dozens or even hundreds of “followers.”
Respected link builder Jennifer Laycock has written extensively regarding applications of the platform. Others use Twitter (on their computer and/or phone) to stay in constant touch with family, customers and friends throughout each day. Twitter deployed recently in Japan with advertising in an attempt to leverage the channel. Stay tuned…
Other Twitter Resources:
The Many Uses of Twitter
techipedia
Twitter: Different Ways to Use Twitter
Lifehacker
200+ Internet Marketing Gurus on Twitter
Marketing Pilgrim
51 Favorite SU, Sphinn, Twitter & Facebook Posts of 2007
SocialDesire
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