Chief Francis Kariuki said he got a call in the dead of the night that thieves had broken into a neighbor's house.
He turned to Twitter, which allows users to send messages in 140 characters or less, to reach his community instantly.
"Thieves in Kelven's living room, let's help him out please," he tweeted in Swahili, the local language.
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