A man was arrested and questioned by police for seven hours after joking about blowing up an airport on Twitter.

After snow had caused the closure of Doncaster's Robin Hood airport, Paul Chambers was concerned that his flight to Ireland would be cancelled and posted a message on the social networking site.

The 26-year-old wrote: "Robin Hood airport is closed. You've got a week and a bit to get your s**t together, otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!!"

Chambers told The Independent: "I would never have thought in a thousand years that any of this would have happened because of a Twitter post. I'm the most mild-mannered guy you could imagine.

"They said I was being arrested under the Terrorism Act and produced a piece of paper. It was a print-out of my Twitter page. That was when it dawned on me."

He added: "I had to explain Twitter to them in its entirety because they'd never heard of it. Then they asked all about my home life, and how work was going, and other personal things.

"The lead investigator kept asking, 'Do you understand why this is happening?' and saying, 'It is the world we live in'."

A spokesman for South Yorkshire Police confirmed: "A male was arrested on 13 January for comments made on a social networking site. He has been bailed pending further investigations."

Chambers has been released on bail until February 11. The police confiscated his iPhone, laptop and home computer.

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