No longer just for posting funny links and telling the world what you ate for breakfast—Twitter has a new use for New York City gang members. Gangs are apparently use the social networking site to set up fights and threaten other gang …
Read Original Story: NYC Gangs Tweet Their Threats – NBC New York
Twitter is a social medium that wears its tweets on its sleeve, publicly for all to see. This weekend, a perfect storm of events bubbled up to underscore what these are such heady times for our favorite microblogging service. Twitter took center stage …
Read Original Story: How Twitter is Pollinating Commerce, Media and Gangs – eWeek
Technology is being used in the most unexpected of ways, by the most unexpected people. Street gangs in New York are making use of Twitter to communicate with each other and to plan up-coming fights. What is more, the police who have to track down …
Read Original Story: Gangs Of New York On Twitter – AccuraCast
Street gangs have reportedly started using Twitter to communicate, plan fights and malign rival gang members. [Gothamist] Gov. David A. Paterson said that New York would have to shuffle money between agencies to cover expenses, …
Read Original Story: Gangs Turn to the Tweet Life – New York Times (blog)
By Zee on November 30, 2009 Twitter has become an active part of gang warfare and nowhere more so, than in New York it seems. According to NY Daily News, after a shooting in last month, believed to be between rival gangs, Lieutenant Kevin O’Connor of …
Read Original Story: Gangs of New York Using Twitter to Trash Talk – The Next Web
The New York Daily News reports that a boy who was shot in the leg last month in New York might have been attacked as part of an ongoing spat between Harlem gang Original Young Gangsters and rival factions. Lieutenant Kevin O’Connor of New York Police …
Read Original Story: Gangs of New York use Twitter to disrespect rivals – Telegraph.co.uk
Gone are the days of the dead rabbits and choreographed street fights. According to a recent story in The New York Daily News, more and more today’s gang fights in the big Apple are being staged on Twitter. The paper cites a recent shooting on Harlem’s …
Read Original Story: Twitter Popular Amongst NY Gangs – Appscout
Over the past 3 plus years, we’ve seen Twitter embraced by a variety of different communities — think big brands, small businesses, PR and marketing types, media outlets, journalists, moms, and public service agencies. Most of us know, however, …
Read Original Story: Twitter Tagged by Gang Members in New York – Mashable (blog)
New York’s criminal youth gangs have turned to Twitter to plan fights and trash-talk rivals, authorities say. NYPD Lt. Kevin O’Connor of Manhattan North’s gang intelligence unit told a forum in Harlem that a boy wounded by a gunshot this year may have …
Read Original Story: NYC gangs use Twitter to fight, taunt – Times of the Internet
By News One November 30, 2009 12:41 pm Manhattan’s young thugs have turned to Twitter, and the cops who track them are fast behind, the Daily News has learned. It’s old-school crime meets new technology: attacks being plotted – and thwarted – 140 …
Read Original Story: The NYPD Is Following Gangs On Twitter – News One
