Fort Hood tragedy explodes on Twitter
Posted by Doug Lacombe
Photo credit: telegraph.co.uk
It was a sobering start to Trending Topics this week with the massacre at Fort Hood, Texas dominating Twitter. Extensive reporting by @NYTimes provided regular updates on the shooting which killed 13 people and wounded 28 (other estimates vary). The New York Times used the new “lists” feature of Twitter to aggregate news on the tragedy from a wide variety of news sources, effectively creating a Twitter wire as part of its reporting.
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