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PRIME Minister David Cameron yesterday pledged to crack down on people using social media to organise riots in the wake of widespread disorder on British streets. Gangs intent on causing chaos organised themselves via Twitter, Facebook and used Blackberry's instant messaging facility on their phones to communicate below the police radar.
In Gloucestershire the disorder on Tuesday night was certainly fuelled in part by speculative posts on Facebook and Twitter. As digital publisher of Thisis-gloucestershire.co.uk I was monitoring the social media traffic as it happened.See the full content of this document
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Social Media in Utter Overdrive
The social media rumour mill was running on overdrive wi...
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