http://www.businessweek.com/technology/network-effects-social-medias-role-in-the-london-riots-08082011.html
"In some cases, this is because mobile and social tools like Twitter and Facebook and SMS messaging can be used to coordinate specific acts or gatherings"
http://blog.optimum7.com/safon/social-media/social-media-effects-riots-in-uk.html
"One of the primary forms of communication was Blackberry Messages (BBM). Huge amounts of information, both true and false, was sent out to millions of residents. Not only were professional news companies attempting to keep up with the situation, the authorities were straggling behind as well."
"After all is said and done, these same social media platforms were used to quell the majority of the violence, and eventually clean up the city. As quickly as social media was blamed for the riots, it helped to pick up the pieces. Thousands of locals organized on Facebook, Twitter, and over BBM to perform massive clean ups around the city."
