May 13, 2009 10:06 PM UTC

At Least You Know How To Tweet

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• by: Colorado Pols

A variation on our “At Least He’s Not Your Legislator” theme, the AP reports from Zion:

Republican Utah Attorney General Mark Shurt leff sent out half a dozen Twitter messages Tuesday revealing details of his yet-to-be announced U.S. Senate campaign that were solely intended for his spokesman.

Shurtleff has repeatedly said he’s interested in challenging fellow Republican Bob Bennett, and he is expected to announce his candidacy next week.

In messages accidentally sent to more than 1,600 followers, Shurtleff wrote about fundraising, and being endorsed by a legislative conservative caucus as well as other senators and representatives.

Shurtleff wrote that it is “time to rock and roll.” Within minutes of posting, the messages – tweets – were removed from Shurtleff’s Twitter page.

In one tweet, Shurtleff wrote, “I just realized that I was responding to a text from u. I’m going to pull it off immediately.”

A few seconds letter, Shurtleff wrote: “Take down my last reply to Ben Cannati too. His tweets to me say ‘direct from Ben,’ so I thought my reply would go directly back just to him.”

Well it did, of course, and the rest of the world too. Oops!

On the other hand, Twitter might be the perfect way for Scott McInnis to cut out the middleman.