Article On Social Media And The London Riots

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/08/london-riots-facebook-twitter-blackberry

- Twitter was slightly more indicative: tweets about an attempt to target Sunday's Hackney Carnival were spotted by police and the event was abruptly cancelled.


- However, the most powerful and up-to-the-minute rallying appears to have taken place on a more covert social network: Blackberry Messenger (BBM)


- And unlike Twitter or Facebook, many BBM messages are untraceable by the authorities (which is why, in large part, BBM is so favoured by emirate teens to spread illicit gossip about officialdom).