As the manhunt for Boston Marathon bombing suspect continued Friday afternoon, social media continued to influence both the media coverage of this story, as well as proving an important resource for law enforcement. After a shootout with the suspects, Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis used Twitter to distribute a photo of the suspect. This afternoon, the Boston office of the FBI issued this alert for the green 1999 Honda Civic that the surviving suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev may be driving:
Bombing suspect may be driving 4-door, ’99, green Honda Civic w/ Mass. plates reading: 116GC7. #FBI #BostonMarathon 1.usa.gov/11oEKTB
— FBI Boston (@FBIBoston) April 19, 2013
That messsage was re-Tweeted more than 1,800 times in a half-hour.
