Social media has become a vital and ever-expanding component of society in countries around the world. From unrest in the Middle East to the disasters in Haiti and Japan, social media has played a significant role in recent world events. It has become commonplace for the first images and accounts of crimes and disasters to appear on social media platforms before first responders are on the scene or have been notified. For example, information about the hostage situation at the Discovery Channel’s headquarters in Maryland; the plane landing on the Hudson River in New York; and the Mumbai, India, terrorist attacks all broke on Twitter, a microblogging platform. Most recently, and unbeknownst to him at the time, Sohaib Athar, a Pakistani information technology consultant, provided real-time information via his Twitter account about the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound. Of course, as is often the case, this rapidly changing technology presents both new challenges and new opportunities for the law enforcement profession.