So everybody was using Twitter to skirt the law

It turns out Republicans weren’t the only ones using Twitter to get around federal campaign laws.

Less than a week after CNN’s Chris Moody broke the news that Republicans were using secret but in-plain-sight public Twitter accounts to pass along internal polling data on House campaigns between outside groups and GOP committees, The Huffington Post reported that in 2012 the Democratic Party passed along information on advertising buys through a Twitter account with the handle @AdBuysDetails.

The account, according to The Huffington Post report, posted tweets between late August and late October on ad buys between Democratic candidates running for the House of Representatives across the country and super PACs and outside groups.

The AdBuyDetails account was meant to get around restrictions on information sharing by being a publicly available twitter account. But like the GOP accounts, the AdBuyDetails tweets were only really useful for people who could decipher what the tweets meant. Here’s a sample tweet: “Bill Enyart for Congress/DCCC”,IL-12 GEN,10/23,10/29,broadcast,281,A35+,30,KTVI,23800,101.9.”