Twitter, quite literally, saved this man’s life. Held captive in Afghanistan for five months, Japanese journalist Kosuke Tsuneoka used the micro-blogger to announce that he was still alive but imprisoned.

It started when one of Tsuneoka’s captors brought him a cell phone and asked him how to use it. It’s not stated how or why, but he was released just a few days after the tweet.

According to the Associated Press, he was released due in part to being a Muslim himself, aligning himself with his captors, who identified themselves as members of the Hizb-e-Islami but masqueraded as Taliban to the Japanese government.

“I am still allive [sic], but in jail” read one tweet, and another pointed to his exact location, “here is archi in kunduz. in the jail of commander lativ.”

Best use of Twitter ever? We think so.

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