Twitter Crackdown By Mexican Officials Over Police Checkpoint Alerts

To avoid military raids and police checkpoints; Mexicans cartels have adopted a new technique by using Facebook and Twitter. Government officials have had the social networking sites closely monitored as they believe it has been used to assist the abduction of the relatives of powerful businessmen and politicians. Kidnappers have allegedly identified the families of high profile individuals and monitored their daily activity by using the social networking sites.