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.

Anti-corruption twitterer lands in jail

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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