White Plains, NY: Not to be outdone by her Republican rival, Hillary Clinton fired off a series of early-morning messages on Saturday (US time) on Twitter.
Only the tweets sent over the Democratic presidential nominee's account dealt with a very different subject matter than those blasted about a former beauty-pageant winner by Donald Trump 24 hours before.
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Trump's Twitter tirade against former Miss Universe
Clinton calls Trump's beauty queen tweets 'unhinged'
Alleging a former Miss Universe was in a sex tape is 'unhinged even for Trump' says Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton of her Republican rival.
Clinton instead focused on national service, a subject to which she had devoted a speech in Florida on Friday.
"It's 3:20am. As good a time as any to tweet about national service," said the first one, coming at the same time that Trump started his storm of disparaging tweets about former Miss Universe Alicia Machado.
The next Clinton tweet borrowed a favourite word of Trump.
"There are hundreds of thousands more @AmeriCorps applications than spots. Horrible!" it read. "Let's expand it from 75,000 annual members to 250,000."
The tweets - several more followed - were the latest bid by Clinton to keep a spotlight on what she described Friday as Trump coming "unhinged".
It's 3:20am. As good a time as any to tweet about national service. https://t.co/6hRCC16UiV
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 1, 2016
In his tweets, the Republican presidential nominee called Machado "disgusting" and a "con" and raised questions about her past, alleging she had been in a sex tape.
The former Miss Universe's story has dominated media coverage of the election since Clinton brought her up at Monday's debate, when she criticised Trump for denigrating comments he made in 1996 about Machado's weight.
Unlike Trump, who often tweets himself, many of those sent out over Clinton's official campaign account are composed by aides.
On Friday, there were a series mocking Trump's behaviour, and at a rally in Coral Springs, Florida, she accused her rival of having a "meltdown".
Trump's Twitter account appeared to have been silent in the early-morning hours on Saturday.
Washington Post