Monday 8 August 2011

Twitter Trouble in Tottenham

Just a few days after I wrote a blog post about how social media was being blamed for gangs of youth descending on to Beech Road Festival in Chorlton, social media is now being blamed for fuelling the riots across London this weekend.

Headlines have included “Thugs use Twitter to call for copy cat riots across the UK” (Daily Express) and “How Technology fuelled Britain’s firsts 21st century riot” (Daily Telegraph).

The Sun wrote about how “thugs used social network Twitter to orchestrate the Tottenham violence and incite others to join in”, while the Daily Mail described how “as the rioting escalated, trouble makers on Twitter seemed keen to orchestrate the violence bringing scores more people into the area”.

Social media is now the scapegoat for anything and everything. Do people honestly think that social media is to blame for these horrific events though? If Twitter and Facebook weren’t around, these people would still find a way of rounding up the troops and causing havoc, whether via text message or carrier pigeon.

Thugs use carrier pigeons to fuel naughtiness

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