Social media in spotlight during London riots
"Facebook, Twitter and BlackberryMessenger have been accused of potentially having helped organize the riots in London, but social media services are also playing a key role in the cleanup operation."
BBC's Merlin actor Bradley James who plays Prince Arthur helps by Tweeting ways to help the clean-up effort in London and spreads the word by Retweeting helpful Tweets:
At johns road clean up brigade http://lockerz.com/s/128046736
Just waiting for information/advice from senior officer re: people travelling back east/north
This community spirit is infectious. Let's keep it up with or without riots eh? Once we're clean it shall be community volunteers :)
@BradleyJames plz RT. #liverpoolriots #RiotCleanup tomorrow, 9am, Asda on Smithdown Rd. Show we're not all brainless thugs
Big thanks to the emergency services for their bravery and persistence in Peckham tonight. We are safe because of them #LondonRiots #SE15
115K views in an hour and 23,000 retweets for this extraordinary speech by West Indian woman in face of #londonriotstwitvid.com/4JTZH
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