On 21 March 2011, Joshua Kaufman’s MacBook was stolen. Fortunately for him and his laptop, he was Twitter savvy and had installed an anti-theft feature. So as his laptop traveled from his burglarized apartment in Oakland, CA, elsewhere he was able to track it, take photos of the fellow using the laptop and send these out on a blog (“This Guy Has My MacBook”) and Twitter to finally get it back and about 5,000 followers in the process.

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