Twitter Lists Emerge As Online Coverage Tool for Fort Hood Shooting

News organizations are rushing today to keep online readers and viewers up-to-date on details and new developments surrounding Thursday afternoon’s shooting at Fort Hood Army Base in Texas in which 13 people were killed.

Beyond the expected deluge of articles and videos, news organizations are deploying a brand-new tool: Twitter Lists, the microblogging site’s new feature that was rolled out last week.

Among the news organizations that have quickly compiled Fort Hood-related Twitter Lists are:

New York Times: http://twitter.com/nytimes/fort-hood-shootings

CNN: http://twitter.com/cnnbrk/fort-hood

NBC’s The Today Show: http://twitter.com/todayshow/forthood

Los Angeles Times: http://twitter.com/LATimes/fort-hood-shootings

Washington Post: http://twitter.com/washingtonpost/forthood

Dallas Morning News: http://twitter.com/DallasCrime/fort-hood-shootings

The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/05/fort-hood-shooting—live_n_347623.html

The New York Times Twitter List in particular is proving very popular, with 400 followers (and counting). In contrast, the Washington Post‘s list has only three followers as of this writing.

Also, the Austin-American Statesman created a separate Twitter account (not a list) specifically for the Fort Hood shooting that now has more than 3,400 followers.

Update: The Statesman has created a Twitter List from its new @FtHoodShootings Twitter account: http://twitter.com/FtHoodShootings/fort-hood

We’ll add more Lists as we find them. If you’re aware of any not mentioned above, please drop us a line in the Anonymous Tips box.

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