The communication to notify anyone involved in facilitating his escape was all done through new technology, like Twitter.

On the other side of the coin, Twitter is being used to quickly inform residents when an assassination or cartel murdel appears to be brewing on the streets.

Here's a semi-sensationalist article on it, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/26/twitter-blog-mex...

And the famous twitter account of a Mexican anti-cartel activist, http://twitter.com/infonarco