The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has a new weapon in its fight against crime on the system — Twitter. Last Wednesday, a quick-thinking passenger snapped a photo of a man allegedly exposing himself on a crowded Red Line train and posted it to his Twitter account. The tweet made its way to the MBTA police (forward by a Herald photographer), who arrested a suspect two days later.
“What we’d like for people to do is if they see something, say something, and if they want, to Twitter something,” said transit police deputy chief Joseph O’Connor at a press conference. “We want people to communicate in whatever means they feel comfortable.” The MBTA police plan to set up a Twitter account shortly and also hope to set up a text-messaging tip line. In a related story, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation announced that its Twitter account has more than 3,000 followers after 18 months of tweets and that the MBTA’s general manager has gained more than 600 followers in less than two months. Link to full story in the Boston Herald.
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