Yesterday, the Republican National Committee started actively engaging its Twitter profile @RNC. They did so by seeking out folks to follow.

The reaction from the Twittering community, of which I'm an active member, was mixed. Some folks were a little confused that @RNC was following their updates, others, weren't very pleased at all.

A sampling via TweetScan:

I posted my own tweet:

But what I really found interesting was this tweet by Peter Fleck:

Could it be possible that the Democratic National Committee was not actively engaging Twitter? I checked their alleged profile, @DNC, and found this to indeed be the case:

Score for the good guys! A nice scoop of porridge to our friends at the RNC: @CyrusK, @JamesRichardson, @LizMair.

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