London riots said fueled by Blackberry (Really?)

Release Date 8 Aug, 2011 in CBS News

London riots said fueled by Blackberry (Really?) CBS News - 8 Aug, 2011 Emergency crews remain on the streets in north London after hundreds of rioters attacked police officers and set cars and buildings on fire. After the outbreak of the "Arab Spring," the spotlight fell on the role played by Twitter and Facebook. ...
Tottenham Protesters Used Twitter, BlackBerry Messenger to Mobilize Riots TIME - 8 Aug, 2011 By Chris Gayomali on August 8, 2011 Social networks like Twitter and Facebook were instrumental to organizing protests during the Arab Spring, which eventually led to the overthrow of oppressive regimes and the liberating of entire peoples. ...
	Is technology to blame for the London riots? BBC News - Iain Mackenzie - 8 Aug, 2011 A number of politicians, media commentators and members of the police force have suggested that Twitter and BlackBerry Messenger, in particular, had a role to play. Undoubtedly, some of those involved ...
RIM's BlackBerry Messenger reportedly used by London rioters National Post (registration) - 8 Aug, 2011 Looted goods lie on the pavement outside a fire-damaged footwear shop after overnight crowd disturbances in Brixton, south London August 8, 2011. British police arrested more than 100 people overnight in London after shops were looted and officers ...
Tech Today: Network of Choice for London Riots Wall Street Journal (blog) - Tom Loftus - 8 Aug, 2011 London Riots: Facebook, Twitter or Blackberry? Here's a claim no tech marketing department wants: the official network of choice for the London riots. In today's blog chatter, it appears that Blackberry is the, umm, winner. ...
	Blackberry: The London Rioters' Tool Of Choice RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty - 8 Aug, 2011 To own a Blackberry was once like being publicly branded by your corporate IT department. But after riots have engulfed parts of London in recent days, the Blackberry is being seen not as a tool of subservience to the man, but of subversion. ...
	London riots: how BlackBerry Messenger has been used to plan two nights of looting Telegraph.co.uk - Christopher Williams - 8 Aug, 2011 This weekend's disturbances in parts of London have again raised questions about the role technology can play in helping crowds to gather and organise. By Christopher Williams, Technology Correspondent During the Arab revolutions earlier this year, ...
	Were the London riots really fuelled by Facebook and Twitter? The Guardian - 8 Aug, 2011 London riots: a looted O2 mobile phone store in Tottenham Hale retail park. Photograph: Ray Tang/Rex Features In October 1985, on the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham where the death of Cynthia Jarrett sparked riots that culminated in the brutal ...
	Tottenham riot: The revolution will not be televised, but it will be Tweeted Daily Mail - Harry Phibbs - 8 Aug, 2011 The disturbances in Tottenham on Saturday night were a very modern riot. 'The revolution will not be televised,' sang Gil Scott-Heron. But the riots will be tweeted. Some believe that Twitter, the instant micro blogging site, ...
London riots: Focus on mobiles, social media Indian Express - 8 Aug, 2011 Mobile technology such as Blackberry and social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook played a key role in organising and coordinating riots across London, according to the police. The riots over the last two days began in Tottenham and have ...
How Blackberry, Not Twitter, Fuelled The Fire Under London's Riots Washington Post - 8 Aug, 2011 By TechCrunch.com, Over the weekend parts of London descended into chaos as riots and looting spread after a protest organised around the yet unexplained shooting of a man by Police. Of course, there was huge amounts of chatter on social networks like ...
Twitter 'exonerated' but now Blackberry blamed for riots Storyful - 8 Aug, 2011 A post-mortem is underway into how two successive nights of riots and looting were organised in London, with some fingers now being pointed at Blackberry devices. Journalists are appealing to the public for copies of Blackberry messages which may have ...
BBM (BlackBerry Messenger): Cheat Sheet Silicon.com - Natasha Lomas - 8 Aug, 2011 Thankfully, no. BBM is short for BlackBerry Messenger - that is, RIM's encrypted instant-messaging app for its BlackBerry devices. In order to add someone to their BBM contacts list, a user needs to know the BBM ...
	BlackBerry Messenger Reportedly Used to Organize, Incite London Riots CIO (blog) - 8 Aug, 2011 Rioters in London last weekend used BlackBerry smartphones and RIM's BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) IM app to privately converse with other looters and plan further chaos, according to recent reports. I've heard of some very "interesting" uses of ...
	BlackBerry Messenger's Role in London Riots Is Scrutinized The Atlantic Wire - 8 Aug, 2011 Twitter and Facebook may have enjoyed gushing praise for its roles in catalyzing revolutions across the Middle East, but another social network is emerging as a conduit for mayehm in this weekend's riots in London on Saturday night and Sunday evening: ...
	London riots: Twitter partly to blame for looting, says top police officer London24 - 8 Aug, 2011 Social media websites such as Twitter and even gadgets like Blackberry Messenger played a role in the violence and riots last weekend, in London. To send a link to this page to a friend, simply enter their email address below. The message will include ...
BlackBerry Messenger, Twitter and Facebook blamed for London riots CNET UK - Rich Trenholm - 8 Aug, 2011 London burned this weekend as rioters and looters took to the streets of Tottenham. It's been widely reported that the trouble was co-ordinated through Facebook, Twitter and even BlackBerry Messenger, ...
Twitter sparks London riots �" #yeahright PC Pro (blog) - Stewart Mitchell - 8 Aug, 2011 If you believe newspapers like the Sun and Daily Mail, the rioting in London over the weekend was orchestrated and organised on Twitter, with the Mail, for example, claiming the “violence was fanned by Twitter as picture of burning police car was ...
You can Tweet the Riot, but you Can't Blame Social Networks for Fuelling ... Huffington Post - 8 Aug, 2011 A little while ago, Malcolm Gladwell faced a backlash following his New Yorker piece on why "the revolution will not be tweeted". He was dismissive of effect that social media can have on protest movements". His central thesis being that the ties that ...
London Riots and Twitter News ... The Next Web - 8 Aug, 2011 London riots needed Twitter news curators, but where are they and who pays for them? The past two nights saw violence and looting in north London as protesters took to the streets �" first to express their frustration with the police following a recent ...
What is BBM and how did it power the #LondonRiots? Shiny Shiny - Anna Leach - 8 Aug, 2011 Blackberry Messenger or BBM has been fingered as key enabler of the riots that swept through London this weekend. Twitter was filled with reports of fires, broken windows and clashes with the police but the ...
	London riots: Blackberry BBM 'used to organise violence and looting' Metro - 8 Aug, 2011 While the police have blamed social-networking sites such as Twitter for fuelling the riots in London over the weekend, it now appear those involved may have in fact been using the Blackberry BBM messaging service to organise the unrest. ...
	BlackBerry plays a part in London riots JOE - 8 Aug, 2011 While Twitter and Facebook remain the twin pillars of social networking, it seems the less well-known BlackBerry messaging service �" or BBM �" was the key communications driver behind the Tottenham riots on Saturday night. The Arab Spring revolts across ...
How Blackberry Messenger (BBM) became the social network of the London riots ... 100gf \| Politics and Computers - 8 Aug, 2011 While various newspapers are claiming that Twitter and Facebook were used to organise the weekend's London riots, it seems that the network of choice for protesters might instead have been the Blackberry Messenger (BBM) system, originally developed for ...
PROs defend Twitter as British press blames it for fanning London riots PRWeek UK - 8 Aug, 2011 PROs have been quick to dismiss press suggestions that Twitter was to blame for fanning the flames of the riots across London at the weekend. A story on the The Daily Mail website yesterday stated: 'Fears that violence was fanned by Twitter as picture ...
	London riots: 'Looter' posts photo of himself and his booty online Daily Mail - 8 Aug, 2011 By Daily Mail Reporter Rule number one about pulling off a successful heist is that you don't tell anyone - and you definitely don't post a picture of yourself online with all the stolen goods. Unfortunately, this rule was lost on one hapless ...