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Finally! Someone found a way to make Twitter useful.
When Irish microblogger Eric Bieci lost his cat, Lilou (photo, right), he hit Twitter in the hope of finding the feline, hoping that spreading the word would increase his chances of a successful recovery.
The news about Lilou’s disappearance spread. It was retweeted by a number of other accounts, including accounts owned by the Irish railway companies, IrishRail.
Meanwhile, train station staff discovered Lilou in Dublin’s Pearse Street railway station. They took her in and initiated a search for her owner… on Twitter.
The staff tweeted about the cat on the IrishRail account, hoping her owner would reply and claim her, and that’s exactly what happened.
No doubt, it seemed like a shot in the dark at first; the area served by Dublin’s rail system is huge. But the staff looked at security camera footage from the stations and found a shot of Lilou sneaking into a station (photo above). Thanks to the video, they were able to be specific about the her origins in their tweet, which also included a photo.
Once Lilou was returned to her owner, she was awarded a rail pass and photo ID so that she won’t need to sneak onto railway cars illegally in the future.
[SOURCE: hewreck.com]
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