A presentation on the impact of social media on crime delivered at the Police Foundation's annual conference 'Policing and Justice for a Digital Age' (December 2016) by Carl Miller, Research Director at the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, Demos.

7. New Drivers of Crime

19. WhatsApp
QQ Mobile
WeChat & Weixin
Facebook Messenger
Snapchat 11,574
115,741
231,481
324,074
381,944
Monitoring social media messages
23,148
231,418
462,963
648,148
763,889
34,722
347,222
694,444
972,222
1,145,883
46,296
462,962
925,925
1,296,296
1,527,777
57870
578,703
1,157,407
1,620,370
1,909,722
69,444
694,444
1,388,889
1,944,445
2,291,666
81,018
810,185
1,620,370
2,268,518
2,673,611
92,592
925,927
1,851,850
2,592593
3,055,556
104,166
1,041,667
2,083,333
2,916,670
3,437,500
115,740
1,157,407
2,314,814
3,240,740
3,819,444
~10,000,000
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