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Kosuke Tsuneoka, a Japanese freelance journalist captured in Afghanistan, posted a short but very powerful tweet on September 3rd.

Since being taken into custody on April 1, not one person had heard a single word from the brave reporter. But fortunately last week, with the help of a not-so web savvy jail guard, Tsuneoka was able to share his message (that he was indeed alive) with the world. Read an exerpt from the incredible story below:

The guard had heard of the internet but didn’t know what it was, so Tsuneoka called customer care to activate the phone and configure it for internet access. He showed the guard how to perform a Google search of “Al Jazeera,” and then he talked about Twitter. “But if you are going to do anything, you should use Twitter,” he said he told the guard. “They asked what that was. And I told them that if you write something on it, then you can reach many Japanese journalists. So they said, ‘Try it.’”

Full story at Wired.

Hat tip to @BillMeade

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