Anti-corruption twitterer lands in jail

A COMPUTER user in Guatemala has become one of the first in the world to be arrested for twittering.

Jean 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.

The message, or tweet, has now earned him a potential five-year prison sentence.

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