Subject: Denton Police Department

• Q: "Are You On Twitter?" A: "Not Till the Denton Cops Booked Me for Possession."

  Plenty of government agencies are dipping their toes into the Twitter waters these days, but when we found the Denton Police Department's Twitter page this afternoon, we knew we'd found something truly special.With automated posts for everyone booked at the jail since Sunday night, the feed comes complete with a person's mug shot, age and what they were booked for. It's enough to make us forget all about Craigslist's Missed Connections.Clicking through the mug shots on TwitPic is like strolling

  April 16, 2009

• Mind Games

  When 19-year-old UNT student Kelli Cox vanished, her desperate parents turned to a Florida "psychic" as their last hope. Hope was all he gave them.

  June 7, 2001

• See What Happens When You Blog About a Twitter Account? TV Gets Involved.

  The "UNT art photography student" behind the Denton Police Department's waaaaay-unofficial Twitter page is probably having a big ol' giggle fit right about now. Because, see, after Unfair Park pointed out the page yesterday -- which uses TwitPic to send followers mug shots the Denton PD loads to its online Jail Custody Report -- the sucker got plenty of folks' attention. Like, oh, KRLD-AM (1080), which just ran a piece about the page and the department's raised eyebrows concerning its existence.

  April 17, 2009