To use Twitter to cover the presidential forum, we had to funnel a group of reporters' tweets into a single Twitter account. Here's how I set it up:

• Created a Twitter account called j_school.
  
• Came up with a hashtag that everyone would use in their tweets, in our case #cu09.
• Went to search.Twitter.com and searched for #cu09.
• Copied the RSS feed for this particular search. (An RSS feed can be created for any search on Twitter. Just look for the link in the upper right corner of the search results page.)
  
• Went to TwitRSS.com and selected "add a source" in the upper right corner of the page.
  
• On the next page, entered the j_school Twitter account and password.
• For the source URL, pasted the RSS feed for the search.

Once I did this, any tweet that included "#cu09" would appear on the j_school Twitter page within a couple of minutes. (One of the problems, though, is that TwitRSS adds content to the beginning and end of each post, which can cut off the original tweet.) Here's what the j_school Twitter page looks like:


The students added to the blog a Twitter badge, which showed the three most recent entries in the sidebar. Unfortunately, the links in those tweets were not live, which meant that the reader sometimes had to copy a link into the browser address to view a picture or read the rest of a cut-off entry. Here's how the badge appeared: