jackwilson (True Core Lover): On April 10, 2008, James Buck, a graduate journalism student at University of California, Berkeley, and his translator, Mohammed Maree, *
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jackwilson (True Core Lover): were arrested in Egypt for photographing an anti-government[clarification needed] protest. On his way to the police station Buck used his mobile phone to send the message “Arrested” to his 48 "followers" on Twitter. Those followers contacted U.C. Berkeley, the *
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jackwilson (True Core Lover): U.S. Embassy in Cairo, and a number of press organizations on his behalf. Buck was able to send updates about his condition to his "followers" while being detained. He was released the next day from the Mahalla jail after the college hired a lawyer for him.[140] *
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jackwilson (True Core Lover): On April 7, 2009, thousands of young anti-communist[according to whom?] protesters stormed the presidency and the parliament building in Chişinău, the capital of Moldova, accusing the government of electoral fraud. Information about these events was disseminated through Twitter using hashtag #pman. This hashtag came from the name of the central square in Chişinău: Piaţa Marii Adunări Naţionale.[141] Twitter was also used to mobilize for the protests.[142] *
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jackwilson (True Core Lover): In February 2009, NASA won a Shorty Award for its near real-time status updates in 2008 of the unmanned Mars Phoenix Lander mission.[143]. . *
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