Tweets and texting alert motorist to locations of sobriety checkpoints.

It has recently been reported California has planned to aggressively increase the number of sobriety checkpoints searching for drunk driving motorist and a prosecutor's office in Texas is announcing the names of those accused of DWI using the social network Twitter. In a mash-up of theses two articles, drivers in California are issuing Twitter tweets to alert other motorists of the locations of sobriety checkpoints with hash tags like #dui or #checkpoints and direct messages while District Attorney Brett Ligon is using the DA's Twitter account to tweet the names of DWI suspects in Montgomery County, Texas.

Twitter, the free electronic messaging service, allows subscribers to share short notes that can be sent to cell phones and computers. The technology has been increasingly used to instantly inform 'friends' in the network of law enforcement activities.