In a report in the New York Daily News, New York Street gangs have made the jump to Twitter. These gangs are reportedly using Twitter for ’shout-outs and throwdowns’, as they will call out rival gangs, inspiring more street violence in the process.

The NYPD is claiming that recent gang crimes, including a boy shot in the leg last week, were started or inflated over messages exchanged over Twitter. The gang members aren’t really technophiles, they just see Twitter as another form of communication.

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