Twitter helps to reunite iPad and Thai owner

Police in Harrogate used Twitter to reunite a lost iPad with its owner – who lives nearly 6,000 miles away in Thailand.

By The Newsroom

Published 4th Dec 2012, 06:00 BST

The iPad was handed to Harrogate Police earlier this year and PC Ed Rogerson was convinced social media could help find its owner.

He discovered photos on it of a flight ticket and others he believed were of the female owner.

He tweeted her photo, which was re-tweeted by over 2,000 people, and using the name from the ticket he identified a Twitter account, contacted one of her followers, and ultimately tracked her down.

Owner Jukjik, from the Nakhon Ratchasima Province of Thailand, said: “I was very, very pleased when I heard my iPad had been found. Now I can see all the photos I took when I was in England.”