A Japanese journalist held hostage in Afghanistan fooled his abductors with an unlikely source: Twitter.
Kosuke Tsuneoka’s captors asked him last Friday to show them how to use their new Nokia mobile phones, and after activating the devices Tsuneoka demonstrated how to access the Internet. After showing them Al Jazeera’s website, Tsuneoka made his move:
Then I told them there is a thing called ‘Twitter’. They asked me to show them what it was, so I sent Twitter messages with the phone in front of them. Because nobody understood English, it was no problem.
“
| — |
Twitter to the rescue | FP Passport おお、Foreign Policyにジャーナリストとして常岡さんが登場している。日本にForeign Policyに登場できるジャーナリストが何人いるかを考えても、これは実質の世界デビューですな。まあ、それほどの体験をし、それほどの機知で危機くぐり抜けたということに他ならないのだから、当然ではあるが。 (via kashino) |
