Tag: london riots

Mike Butcher looks at the use of social networks during the London Riots – where the media and the connected looking for information turned to Twitter, but the people on the ground were using the much less “web 2.0 open” and more secure Blackberry BBM messaging network to co-ordinate efforts: Of course, there was huge amounts of chatter on social networks like Facebook and Twitter, with the latter coming under enormous amounts of criticism from the UK press for fueling the fire. But while Twitter has largely been the venue of spectators to violence and is a handy public venue