This is an interesting social media story growing out of an unfortunate news story.

It is all over the news that there was a shooting incident today at Ft. Hood outside of Killeen, TX.

The interesting social media story is that within hours, if not minutes, of the shootings the Austin American-Statesman set up a Twitter account called @FtHoodShootings to cover the news of the event.

In less than two hours they have almost 2000 followers.

Much like URLs, the Twitter land grab has started and will only accelerate. As events happen or stars become famous, people will move quickly to snatch up Twitter accounts with relevant names. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

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