Tuesday, August 16, 2011

As the BlackBerry, not Twitter, fuelled fire in London rioting

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Weekend of London descended into chaos as riots and looting spread after protest around the unknown man shot by police. Of course there is lots of chatter on social networks like Facebook and Twitter, with the last coming under a huge amount of criticism from the UK press to fuel the fire. But while Twitter has hosted many viewers to violence and is a convenient public place for journalists to observe, it is network enabled BlackBerry BBM undiscovered was the method of choice for organizing it.


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