Technology services are becoming a digital helping hand to people affected by the Boston explosions.
As is now commonplace in the wake of major events or crises, Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc.FB-3.85% have become digital timelines of eyewitness accounts, photos and video from the scenes of the Boston explosions.
Grainy images and video of two suspects in the Boston marathon bombings represent new challenges for technology employed by security services in the age of social media,