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The city’s street gangs are becoming tweet gangs.

Manhattan’s young thugs have turned to Twitter, and the cops who track them are fast behind, the Daily News has learned.

It’s old-school crime meets new technology: attacks being plotted - and thwarted - 140 characters at a time.

One investigator recently warned parents and teens that the bastion of OMG and LOL has been infiltrated by violent crews waging turf wars.

This reminds me of an article I read back in 2005 or 2006 about Arab and African kids in France using a hyper-leet communiqué to evade authority and coordinate with one another. It was probably just some embellishment journalism, but the use of pig-latin-like correspondence made it interesting. I love how the ingenuity of the mildly-interested can enrapture the slightly responsible.