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One of the first people to be arrested for using Twitter
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6-30-2009 4:51 PM
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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/twitter/5698527/Man-in-Guatemala-arrested-for-Twitter-messages.html"><H2> A man in Guatemala, Jean Anleu, has become one of the first people in the world to be arrested for using Twitter. </H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/twitter/5698527/Man-in-Guatemala-arrested-for-Twitter-messages.html"><P> Mr Anleu was so tired with corruption in his country that he decided to vent his feeling with a 96-character message on the social-networking site. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/twitter/5698527/Man-in-Guatemala-arrested-for-Twitter-messages.html"><P> The message, or tweet, has now earned him a potential five-year prison sentence. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/twitter/5698527/Man-in-Guatemala-arrested-for-Twitter-messages.html"><P> Writing under his internet alias "jeanfer," Mr Anleu urged depositors to pull their money from Guatemala's rural development bank, whose management has been challenged in a political scandal: "First concrete action should be take cash out of Banrural and bankrupt the bank of the corrupt." </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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