white plains, n.y. <u+2014> not to be outdone by her republican rival, hillary clinton fired off a series of early-morning messages saturday <u+00a0>on twitter.









only the tweets sent over the democratic presidential nominee<u+2019>s account dealt with a very different subject matter than those blasted about a former beauty-pageant winner by donald trump 24 hours before.









[trump under fire after sending nasty tweets about <u+2018>disgusting<u+2019> ex-miss universe]









clinton instead focused on national service, a subject to which she had devoted a speech in florida on friday.









<u+201c>it's 3:20am. as good a time as any to tweet about national service,<u+201d> 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 favorite word of trump.









<u+201c>there are hundreds of thousands more<u+00a0>@americorps applications than spots. horrible!<u+201d> it read. <u+201c>let's expand it from 75,000 annual members to 250,000.<u+201d>









the tweets <u+2014> several more followed <u+2014> were the latest bid by clinton to keep a spotlight on what she described friday as trump coming <u+201c>unhinged.<u+201d>









in his tweets, the republican presidential nominee called machado <u+201c>disgusting<u+201d> and a <u+201c>con<u+201d> and raised questions about her past, alleging she had been in a sex tape.









[clinton calls for new national service reserve during florida swing]









the former miss universe<u+2019>s story has dominated media coverage of the election since clinton brought her up at monday<u+2019>s debate, when she criticized trump for denigrating comments he made in 1996 about machado<u+2019>s weight.









unlike trump, who often tweets himself, many of those sent out over clinton<u+2019>s official campaign account are composed by aides.









on friday, there were a series mocking trump<u+2019>s behavior, and at a rally in coral springs, fla., she accused her rival of having a <u+201c>meltdown.<u+201d>









trump<u+2019>s twitter account appeared to have been silent in the early-morning hours on saturday.
with 3:20 a.m. tweet storm saturday, clinton continues to mock trump<u+2019>s friday <u+2018>meltdown<u+2019>
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