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Denver's Rocky Mountain News is having more trouble with the newspaper's grand experiment in using Twitter as a reporting tool. Reporting tool? Twitter is for oversharing and posting links to ninja cat videos on YouTube. Even before the fishwrap was sending reporters to tweet updates from a child's funeral, it had set up a Twitter feed to let reporters send updates from the action at the Democratic National Convention. One hack from Scripps Howard sent an update that included the word "fucker," and to scrape the term from the site editors had other reporters flood the site with tweets to push the obscenity off the page. At least we won't have to worry about a reporter cussing mid-funeral.It wasn't public outcry that convinced the editors to stop asking reporters to post morbid 140-character updates. Instead it was a staffer with a sense of discretion and a little humanity who raised concerns that experimenting with new medium during a memorial service for the victim of a tragic accident isn't in the best of taste. (Photo by Evan Sims