US embassy in Cairo gets snippy with Muslim Brotherhood on Twitter

From the professional diplomats forced to delete their apology for Muslim hurt feelings, a little social media outreach to the Muslim Brotherhood:

.@ikhwanweb Thanks. By the way, have you checked out your own Arabic feeds? I hope you know we read those too.

— U.S. Embassy Cairo (@USEmbassyCairo) September 13, 2012

Evidently in addition to Remedial Groveling, international diplomacy school now offers Trolling 101. And today the U.S. embassy in Cairo is dredging up all those old lessons in oh-snappery to bicker with the Muslim Brotherhood on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/MateuszTadeusz/status/246261604486873088

Naturally the Muslim Brotherhood responded.

.@usembassycairo we understand you're under a lot of stress, but it will be more helpful if you point out exactly the Arabic feed of concern

— Ikhwanweb (@Ikhwanweb) September 13, 2012

While there’s little doubt that Muslim Brotherhoood radicals believe they can get away with more moderate tweets in English, is Twitter smack-talking the MB the Obama administration’s official response to a group of butchers calling for worldwide anti-American rage? And does the embassy think this will rehab its new reputation for appeasement?

https://twitter.com/adrianhong/status/246238896390799360

https://twitter.com/MattRJohnson_/status/246265701940224003

@michellemalkin Did you see their latest tweets to the Muslim Brotherhood? Looks like they're still letting an intern run the acct.

— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) September 13, 2012

The @USEmbassyCairo twitter account sounds like it's handled by an intern

— Abbas Al Lawati (@allawati) September 13, 2012

I think @USEmbassyCairo and @IkhwanWeb just broke up.

— Ali Butler Glenesk (@aliglenesk) September 13, 2012

I no more support @USEmbassyCairo talking smack than I do them groveling. It's embarrassing that we have children running our Embassy comms.

— Whatever (@DRussell76) September 13, 2012

Lol @Ikhwanweb and @USEmbassyCairo are having a twitter feud. #internationalrelations2012

— Hana Elhattab (@hana_elhattab) September 13, 2012

Mob violence rages on and the U.S. embassy in Cairo engages in 140-character snippets of troll-plomacy instead of seriously addressing Islamist attacks. Countdown to the media spinning this as Mitt Romney’s doing starts now.

Update:

Here's a story on the fiasco that is @USEmbassyCairo. Their twitter feed and PR are not serving our country well. http://t.co/r5XGcY5k

— Nicholas Augusta (@naugusta) September 13, 2012