The Perils of Tweeting

We all know about the brave Iranians who risk life and limb to tweet to the world the repression they are experiencing.

Now The Associated Press alerts us to one of the first arrests for tweeting -- in Guatemala.

Jean Anleu faces the prospect of a five-year prison sentence for a 96-character tweet urging depositors to withdraw money from and bankrupt Guatemala's rural-development bank, which he termed "the bank of the corrupt."

Authorities charged that Anleu's tweet illegally undermined trust in the nation's banking system and threw him into the pokey.

Tweets, though, have proven hard to silence. As word of Anleu's arrest spread, Twitterers donated half of his $6,200 bail.