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GoSquared, a real-time website monitoring company based in London, has produced a visualization of how events in London unfolded over the past few days.
During the riots, a number of websites signed up to GoSquared which were created for the sole purpose of making sense of the chaos, for example London Riots Map. James Gill, CEO of GoSquared, said:
“Through permission from the people responsible for these sites, this gave us a very good insight into how the public were keeping track of the situation, and so the spikes in traffic we were witnessing across parts of our network were directly caused by the huge volumes of traffic on some of these sites monitoring the situation via Twitter and other sources.”
The analysis starts on Monday, just as the chaos began to spill over from its original starting point in Tottenham:
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