A 16-year-old boy from Oxfordshire apparently, "...was using the social networking site late on Wednesday night and sent a private message to a girl in Maryland saying that he was going to harm himself." The girl then told her mom, who told the local police, who contacted a "special agent" at the White House, who contacted the British Embassy in Washington and finally the police control room near Oxfordshire.
He had overdosed, but was still conscious.
[Story from The BBC]
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You should read some of the articles about how twitter has been used. For example, an American journalist was arrested in Egypt for photographing an anti-government protest and tweeted about it while being taken to the police station, his twitter followers were able to arrange help with the US embassy.
ReplyDeleteThere's also a loads of other stories about twitter providing tons of realtime information very quickly during emergency situations like disasters or terrorist attacks. (e.g. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/3530640/Mumbai-attacks-Twitter-and-Flickr-used-to-break-news-Bombay-India.html )