Pete Cashmore: There's no evidence to suggest that social networking helped fuel "riots" this week in San Francisco
San Francisco erupted in joyous celebrations Monday night after the Giants' World Series win. Honking car horns were heard across the city and bars were packed with revelers.
In a few instances, however, celebrations took an unwelcome turn: A bus was reportedly set alight, and store windows were smashed. Given the high density of Twitter, Flickr and Facebook users in San Francisco, few of these events went undocumented on social networks, leading the UK's Telegraph to decry a new breed of San Francisco cyber hooligans.
Read More:http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/11/04/cashmore.cyber.hooligans/index.html
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