Like any powerful force, Twitter can be used for good or ill. In the case of the latter, New York street gangs -- which apparently still exist -- are exploiting the micro-blogging service to
correspond, goad rival gangs, and plan all manner of fracas, reports Gothamist via the Daily News.
Police speculate that one misguided adolescent might have been shot in the legs over a
virtual turf war started by the "Original Young Gangsters" clique on Twitter, and which included such slights as, "I knoe [sic] bitches from (Original Young Gangsters) that would dead mob yah s--t in
harlem." Hot on the case, the NYPD is said to be tracking the so-called "tweet gangs," going through tweets "just like old phone records," according to one department rep.
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