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The difference: Clinton’s tweetstorm focused on national service and avoided any talk of a sex tape.

Her follow-up tweets, all posted between 3:20 and 3:30, called for tripling AmeriCorps memberships and forgiving student loans for those who go into national service.

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

There are hundreds of thousands more @AmeriCorps applications than spots. Horrible! Let's expand it from 75,000 annual members to 250,000. — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 1, 2016

Too many talented young people pass up on programs like @Peacecorps because of student loans. Let's use GOOD JUDGMENT & lighten that burden. — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 1, 2016

Remember, don't believe the haters who describe America as hopeless and broken. We should lift each other up, not tear each other down. — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 1, 2016

For those few people knocking public service, hope you'll reconsider answering the call to help others. Because we're stronger together. — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 1, 2016

Clinton’s tweetstorm came a day after Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, posted a series of tweets between 3:20 and 5:30 a.m. Friday morning seeking to discredit former Miss Universe Alicia Machado by drawing attention to tawdry details about her past, including allegations — debunked by fact-checkers — that she filmed a “sex tape.”

Clinton tore into Trump on Friday, calling the tweets “unhinged, even for Trump,” and asking, “What kind of man stays up all night to smear a woman with lies and conspiracy theories?”

Trump defended his late-night tweeting, saying that if a global emergency took place in the middle of the night, “at least you know I will be there, awake, to answer the call!”