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December 25, 2009

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The social networking site Twitter will now be used to stop dui, as a Montgomery County law enforcement agency plans to post the names of those arrested for DWI on the site.

According to the Chief prosecutor Warren Diepraam, by tweeting the names of DWI suspects, who have been charged in cases considered strong enough to prosecute, the threat of humiliation would lead less people to drink and drive.

Diepraam said "We’ve kind of simplified it by using Twitter, putting that information that’s already out there as a public record, putting it on Twitter so that people could follow who’s been arrested" .

Brett Ligon, with the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office said that "Sometimes you can embarrass the right offender and you can say, ‘Hey, don’t get out of your community. Don’t drink and drive. And if you do, there are collateral damages and not just the criminal case.’”

Montgomery County officials plan to continue to announce the names of DWI suspects until at least the New Year’s holiday.

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