Today in TechFounder of TwitPic tweets his run-in with the law via his own Twitter photo-sharing service
A single errant tweet may have cost a prominent politician his job this month, but one high-profile Twitter user opted to live-tweet an indiscretion to top that — his own arrest. Late last night, TwitPic founder Noah Everett found himself in a run-in with the law for apparently going on a moonlit walk with no shirt on. Naturally, he tweeted the whole thing and posted a photo from the back of the police car over his own photo-sharing service.
Everett first sent the missive "Getting arrested...in the back of a cop car now" followed by the siren-lit TwitPic as self-proclaimed proof. Happily, Everett was only having a little good, arguably-clean fun; he later revealed the reason for his arrest: "...I guess you can't walk down your own street half naked...who knew - I got a free ride home by the nice police officer."
TwitPic is a service that lets Twitter users upload photos and share them across their respective micro-blogging universes, for better or worse. Of course, not all of TwitPic's applications are quite as silly as Everett's late-night adventure. The instant visual sharing afforded by such services has inspired a wave of global citizen journalism and social media-fueled uprisings — most notably, the ouster of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak earlier this year.
Update: According to a set of new tweets from Everett, he wasn't arrested at all, merely detained briefly and questioned.
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