2011 England riots "Time" magazine suggested BlackBerry Messenger was more to blame. During the riots, Twitter accounted for four out of every 170 UK Internet visits on Monday 8 August. In addition, citizens also used Twitter to band together, after the destruction. The aftermath of the riots resulted in a disrupted city, yet Twitter was further used to maintain peace, with hashtags including "#riotcleanup". Evidence shows that people were tweeting and re-tweeting news related to the riots, not original content. Other than BlackBerry Messenger and social networking sites, mobile phone operators T-Mobile and Orange prioritised police requests for information about the phones that
2011 England riots public inquiry into the wider causes of the riots and has stated that his party would set up such an inquiry if the coalition fails to do so. The UK was shaken by its worst riots in decades. A wide-ranging LSE study called "Reading the Riots" concluded that the major contributory factors were opportunism, perceived social injustice, deprivation, and frustration at the way communities were policed. A YouGov poll was carried out on 8–9 August 2011 for "The Sun" asking what those surveyed believed to be the main cause of the riots. In it, 42% of those polled thought "criminal