Twitter or be arrested
By Techgirl

Twitter is the hottest micro blogging platform in the world. Even though it has more than 50 million members, only about 18 million are regularly active.  It is a great way to connect with like minded folk and keep a tab on what people are talking about.  Indians have taken to Twitter like ducks to water.

By now, most of us think we have heard of every Twitter story.  People in Indonesia twittering while their hotel is under a terror attack.  A woman twittering while giving birth.  And the Twitter marriage proposal. It seemed that every Twitter moment had been reported.

Now, there is an amazing new Twitter story.  Newsday is reporting that police in USA have arrested a Music executive after he did not Twitter to a crowd of young girls that an album signing by 15-year old Canadian pop singer had been cancelled because the teenagers had become uncontrollable

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An album signing scheduled Friday for teen sensation Justin Bieber at Roosevelt Field mall was canceled because a crowd of 3,000 young girls and their parents started aggressively pushing and shoving, police said.

Police arrested a senior vice president from Bieber's label, Island Def Jam Records, James A. Roppo, 44, of Hoboken, N.J., saying he hindered their crowd-control efforts by not cooperating.

He was in custody Friday night, pending charges that could include criminal nuisance, endangering the welfare of a minor and obstructing government administration, Smith said.

"We asked for his help in getting the crowd to go away by sending out a Twitter message," Smith said. "By not cooperating with us we feel he put lives in danger and the public at risk."
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While being arrested, he should have twittered the youngsters asking to be rescued from the police. If one hundred teenage girls had gheraoed the police, there was no way they would have arrested him.

Techgoss note: Techgirl is a senior Tech journalist who reports on the IT, KPO and KPO Sectors for a leading media house.  In her spare time, she dabbles in satire in her blog http://techgirltalk.blogspot.com