Paralysed man's lonely tweet leads to flood of hospital visitors

One man's plea for somebody to visit him becomes most retweeted message in Saudi history.

A hospital in Saudi Arabia has been flooded with visitors after a Twitter appeal by a 24-year-old man who is paralysed from the neck down.

The young man, named only as 'Ibrahim', is a patient in King Khalid University Hospital, in the Saudi capital Riyadh.