After the riots in Europe what do you expect?
Especially when we may start seeing the same thing here in the U.S.
I bet people will complain about the whole set up, and as I always say- Those are the ones to watch.
The Daily News
The NYPD has formed a new unit to track troublemakers who announce plans or brag about their crimes on Twitter, MySpace and Facebook.
Newly named Assistant Commissioner Kevin O'Connor, one of the department's online and gang gurus, has been put in charge of the new juvenile justice unit. He and his staff will mine social media, looking for info about troublesome house parties, gang showdowns and other potential mayhem, sources said.
The power of social media to empower both criminals and cops has been on full display in London this week, where riots and looting have been spreading dramatically.
The rioters have been using Twitter and BlackBerry messages to choose targets for looting or burning - and to alert one another about police positions.
The very same social media have been a source for those trying to help cops by posting photos of rioters.
O'Connor's new unit will operate under the Community Affairs Bureau; it will also handle outreach programs, with its mandate going beyond the Net.
Saturday, August 13, 2011
NYPD forms new social media unit to mine Facebook and Twitter for mayhem
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
The Weiner Has Been Exposed.
Exposed as a Lying little bitch, But he will not resign he says.
That's typical of a liberal ass clown to do something like this and then stand back and say , well I apologized so forget about it.
Sorry Dick, it ain't going away that easy.
Foxnews
Rep. Anthony Weiner faces an uncertain political future after the married New York Democrat admitted Monday in a stunning, nearly half-hour news conference that he had conducted "inappropriate" and sometimes explicit exchanges with six women he met online over the past three years.
Weiner apologized, saying he is "deeply ashamed," but has no plans to resign.
Yet the House leader from his own party, Nancy Pelosi, publicly called for an ethics investigation into Weiner's actions, and even if he were to be cleared of wrongdoing in such an inquiry, it remains to be seen whether voters from his New York City district will re-elect him to an eighth term in 2012.
Weiner expressed hope that he could win back the trust of his constituents.
"This was me doing a dumb thing and doing it repeatedly and then lying about it," Weiner said. "And that's all there is."
Weiner had claimed for days that his Twitter account had been hacked after a close-up underwear photo intended for a female college student in Seattle was posted publicly. That was a lie, he said Monday, explaining that he had "panicked" and created the story to conceal his actions.
Weiner said he takes "full responsibility" for his actions. "I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people I care about the most and I'm deeply sorry," Weiner said, as he proceeded to detail a host of indiscretions, though he said he never met in person with the women he contacted online and by phone.
Monday, June 14, 2010
New York Times Bans 'Tweet'
Pretty funny how a Major Newspaper , Ban's a word used in peoples everyday life .
Sounds like somebody is a little jealous !
Foxnews
The New York Times writers were warned not to use the word "tweet," Sky News reported Friday.
As the use of Twitter continues to grow, words like "tweet" and "twittering" have increasingly cropped into everyday use.
But editor of The New York Times, Phil Corbett, said it was unacceptable.
He sent a memo to writers Wednesday telling them not to use the T-word, which he called "inherently silly."
"Some social-media fans may disagree, but outside of ornithological contexts, 'tweet' has not yet achieved the status of standard English," Corbett said in the memo, obtained by website The Awl. "And standard English is what we should use in news articles."
"Except for special effect, we try to avoid colloquialisms, neologisms and jargon. And 'tweet' — as a noun or a verb, referring to messages on Twitter — is all three."
The word tweet appeared 18 times in article in The New York Times in the past month, which prompted Corbett to put his foot down.
Monday, January 18, 2010
UK: Tweet at your own risk. Man arrested on terror charges after making 'bomb joke'.
An air passenger was arrested under the Terrorism Act and held in a police cell for seven hours after joking on Twitter he would blow an airport 'sky high' if his flight was delayed.
Paul Chambers, 26, posted the message after snowfall threatened to delay his plans to travel from Doncaster's Robin Hood airport to Ireland on January 15.
The finance supervisor wrote: 'C***! Robin Hood airport is closed.
'You've got a week and a bit to get your s*** together, otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high"
Police were alerted and Mr Chambers was arrested.
Friday, December 18, 2009
Twitter.com hijacked by 'Iranian cyber army'
The Iranian Cyber Army ?.
the next contestant in the Cyber Warfare !
Hackers hijacked the Web site of micro-blogging community Twitter.com early Friday, briefly redirecting users to a Web page for a group calling itself the "Iranian Cyber Army."
The attackers apparently were able to redirect Twitter users by stealing the credentials needed to administer the domain name system (DNS) records for Twitter.com. DNS servers act as a kind of phone book for Internet traffic, translating human-friendly Web site names like "Twitter.com" into numeric Internet addresses that are easier for computers to handle.
"Twitter's DNS records were temporarily compromised but have now been fixed," the company said in a brief statement on its Web site. "We are looking into the underlying cause and will update with more information soon."
