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Twitter exec live tweets barricade drama in Pacific Palisades

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When an armed pursuit suspect barricaded himself in a Pacific Palisades home early Monday morning, neighbor and Twitter executive Nathan Hubbard took to the social media platform to give a blow-by-blow account of the drama.

Hubbard, who had just arrived home from a trip abroad, began tweeting details of the standoff with Los Angeles police officers at 2:20 a.m.

The ordeal, which played out behind Hubbard's home, lasted for almost six hours before the suspect finally surrendered to authorities

Here's a partial description on Hubbard's Twitter account of how the situation unfolded: 

https://twitter.com/NathanCHubbard/status/719455143159140352

Hubbard, whose Twitter bio reads "Dad, songwriter, looking after Global Media + Commerce at Twitter. Formerly CEO of Ticketmaster," used the live video app Periscope, as well as surveillance tapes, to provide images for his followers. 

https://twitter.com/NathanCHubbard/status/719472630785441792
https://twitter.com/NathanCHubbard/status/719491172062760960
https://twitter.com/NathanCHubbard/status/719495753719132163
https://twitter.com/NathanCHubbard/status/719499695769276416
https://twitter.com/NathanCHubbard/status/719500651827318784
https://twitter.com/NathanCHubbard/status/719511660797427712
https://twitter.com/NathanCHubbard/status/719522498698555392
https://twitter.com/NathanCHubbard/status/719524049823510529

As darkness slowly gave way to morning light, events in the 400 block of North Lombard Avenue developed rapidly.

https://twitter.com/NathanCHubbard/status/719527112181329920
https://twitter.com/NathanCHubbard/status/719533621120372736
https://twitter.com/NathanCHubbard/status/719538426639294464

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