Monday, August 15, 2011

Video: Community Organizing with Social Media

Law enforcement better figure out how to deal with flash mobs very quickly because it's likely to get a whole lot worse based on the success of community organizing via Facebook and twitter. Al Gore asked for an American Spring and he might be getting it. This weekend, rapper The Game, who has over 500,000 twitter followers instructed them all to call a phone number to learn about how to get an internship. That phone number was to the Compton police, who were flooded with calls.

Now this. At least three dozen thugs enter a convenience store in a very orderly fashion and all of them steal something. This most certainly has to be the result of the same type of social media / flash mob tactics. The worst part is that the police seem to have no clue how to deal with it. They better figure it out, quick.

Via GWP:

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