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For the second time since she started Tweeting, Demi Moore has saved the life of a suicidal fan.

Last night, Demi received a tweet from Jeremy Lynch in Casselberry, Florida which read:

    "@mrskutcher I'm about to go hang myself from a tree outside my house and end my life. I have no reason to live anymore. I am going to send a live feed of me hanging myself. No one cares if I die or not."


Demi immediately responded, asking him, "R U rlly asking 4 help?"

That's when the Twitterverse sprang into action. Actress Nia Vardalos, who saw the tweet, called a suicide-prevention hotline in Los Angeles, who was patched through to a dispatcher for the Seminole County Sheriff's department. She tweeted, "I gave his name+city. They went to home, helped him."

In a report obtained by The Orlando Sentinel, Deputy Alan J. Layton responded to the call and arrived at the home where he found a young man sobbing at his desk.

"I asked [the man] if he posted this on Twitter and he said he did," Layton reported. He "seemed confused when I spoke to him and he continued to cry the entire time." The man told Layton he needed medical help.

The man was taken to an area hospital.

This is not the first time Moore has staged an intervention via Twitter. Last year, a San Jose woman tweeted a similar cry for help and Moore's response led several of her Twitter followers to call the authorities.