Police used twitter and Blackberry messenger to thwart riots | Brand Aura blog - 0 views
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Stephen Dale on 23 Aug 11The analysis presented in our whitepaper shows clearly that the locations most talked about were indeed attacked by rioters later on. Our analysis picked up the locations discussed in the BBC article as well as other locations such as Brixton, Croydon, Walthamstow, and so on. In almost all cases there was a time gap of a good few hours between the location being discussed on twitter and the rioting and looting activity actually taking place.