Blogger Arrested Over Twit Tweet

Tweeting is not without its dangers it seems. Mild mannered ( his words) blogger , Paul Chambers twerped out some words on the internationally famous social networking site Twitter and was later unhappy to hear a knock on his door from Law Enforcement and Anti Terrorist Agencies.

“My first thought upon hearing it was the police was that perhaps a member of my family had been in an accident,” PaulJChambers told The Independent.

Paul , 26 , was arrested under the Terrorism Act on suspicion of conspiring to create a bomb hoax and taken into police custody where he was questioned for seven hours.  His Laptop , Home Computer and Iphone were all seized.

Presented with a printout of his Twitter page , the suspect realised his posting was what had brought the authorities to his front ( and back) door.

“I had to explain Twitter to them in its entirety because they’d never heard of it.”

Being unaware of Twitter is possibly the most incredible part of this saga.

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