The first tweet came from Mexico president Enrique Peña Nieto.
It was short and stoic, telling the world that Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the Sinaloa drug lord wanted by both the Mexican and U.S. government, had been captured. "Mission accomplished: we have him," Nieto's tweet read upon translation. "I want to inform the Mexican people that Joaquin Guzman Loera has been arrested."
The Associated Press, among other news outlets, would fill in details of Guzman's arrest soon after. An anonymous source confirmed that the long-sought fugitive was involved in a shootout with the Mexican Navy in Los Mochis, a coastal city in Guzman's home state of Sinaloa. Five people were killed, six arrested, and a marine suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
Images of Guzman - disheveled and wearing a dirtied, sleeves undershirt - surfaced on social media following his arrest, one taken as he sat unhandcuffed in a jet. The next step is in deciding where Guzman goes next.
"El Chapo" escaped a maximum-security prison last July by exposing a blind spot in his bathroom. His freedom cost a reported $50 million in bribes and led to a worldwide manhunt commandeered by Mexican law enforcement and DEA officials. Now comes the not-so-easy decision on where Guzman is sentenced.
He's wanted on numerous organized crime and drug trafficking charges in Mexico. The U.S. wants him extradited on similar charges, in addition to counts of homicide and conspiracy to commit murder.
The gravity of "El Chapo's" arrest goes beyond federal courtrooms. The court of public opinion has a say and they've taken to Twitter to express it.
Some believe Guzman is Mexico's problem. Others whimsically say he's escape prison a third time, regardless of where he ends up.
But one group of Twitter users, some who believe "El Chapo" is a positive influence in Mexico, opine his arrest will have detrimental consequences on the Mexican people.
All the drug trafficking charges he's tied to, and the countless murders Mexican official believe he coerced, there are people who believe Guzman is a modern day Robin Hood; a Godfather-like figure who uses organized crime to help the needy.
In the past, Guzman supporters have cited his impoverished upbringing. He was a roadside orange seller before joining the Sinaloa Cartel in the early 1990s. Other point to a lack of trust in government and 63 million - 52.3 percent of Mexico's population - that lives in poverty.
"At the heart of narcocultura is the figure of the mafia godfather," Ioan Grillo wrote in his 2011 book "El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency," as found by Business Insider.
Grille added, "The personage is celebrated in mythological terms as the ragged peasant who rose to riches; the great outlaw who defies the Mexican army and the DEA; the benefactor who hands out dollar bills to hungry mothers; the scarlet pimpernel who disappears in a puff of smoke."
The Twitter hashtag #FreeElChapo, prevalent around the time of his Feb. 2014 escape, began trending on Friday.
Some users quipped that he would free himself.
Based on his last two escapes, that may not be far from the truth.