Don’t discount the power of people who follow stars on Twitter.

A woman who used the micro-blogging network to announce her plans to commit suicide by tweeting actress Demi Moore was later found by authorities and taken in for evaluation after followers of the actress reported the incident to police, who said this is an unprecedented use of the network.

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The potential suicide victim wrote a message to Moore early Friday morning detailing the way in which she was planning to take her life.

“Getting a knife, a big one that is sharp. Going to cut my arm down the whole arm so it doesn’t waste time,” they wrote at approximately 3 a.m. California time.

Seconds later, they followed up with another message reading, “gbye … gonna kill myself now.”

After the original threat was posted by the woman who’s Twitter profile placed her in the Silicon Valley area, Moore reposted the message on her own page, saying, “hope you are joking.”

Other users quickly sprung into action, flooding the San Jose Police Department with calls reporting the threat.

“We received several calls in regards to the Twitter threat,” said San Jose Police Department Public Information Officer Jermaine Thomas.

“We located the subject and that person was uninjured. We did take the person into custody for evaluation.”

Suicide is never the answer — never, never, never!