SA hijack victim owes survival to Twitter
Thursday, Apr 12, 2012 Filed Under :Planet Talk Card News
A victim of hijacking in South Africa was rescued following a hunt for his speeding vehicle, spurred by a series of re-tweets (RT) on micro-blogging site Twitter.
Those making cheap calls to South Africa might learn the story of an anonymous man who was bundled into the boot of his car before his captors sped off with him inside.
The criminals forgot to confiscate the victim’s phone, enabling him to text his girlfriend for help, the Star newspaper reported.
His girlfriend then sent a tweet to her friend, who forwarded the emergency to popular police trap and roadblock tweeter PigSpotter, who alerted a widespread number of tweeters to the incident.
As a result, police were able to locate the victim and his car after the looters abandoned it at a roadblock, however, no arrests were made.
PigSpotter told the newspaper: “This is not the first incident where someone has been rescued…as a direct result of tweeting me and it being RT’ed, and reaching the correct people at the exact moment.”
Twitter is a social networking site that encourages its users to be brief as it only allows them to send live messages of 140 characters or less.
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