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How Boston Police Won the Twitter Wars During the Marathon Bomber Hunt


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Celebrating capture

Hundreds celebrated on Hemingway Street in Boston's Fenway neighborhood after police announced the second bombing suspect's capture.

Credit: Kayana Szymczak/Getty Images

The first official announcement that law enforcement agencies had concluded their manhunt for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev didn't come at a press conference by police commissioner Ed Davis or Mayor Tom Menino. It didn't come from a press release or a dispatch over a police scanner.

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