London Riots: Blame Twitter -- or BlackBerry Messenger?

London Riots : Blame Twitter : or BlackBerry Messenger? : ABC News

by MARK SCHONE, abcnews.go.com
August 12th 2011

As riots continue throughout London, British police have threatened to bring charges against those who use social media to incite looting and violence.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stephen Kavanaugh confirmed to U.K. media that officers were looking at Twitter as they investigated the riots, which began after the police shooting of 29-year-old Mark Duggan in the Tottenham section of North London on Thursday.

But some observers have noted that the social media that has really helped "organize" the looting is not Twitter or even Facebook, so central to uprisings throughout the Arab world earlier this year. Many of the teenagers running through London's streets are communicating by BlackBerry Messenger.

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Elyssa Durant, Ed.M. 
United States of America 

Forgive typos! iBLAME iPhone

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