Would-be leaders Malcolm Turnbull and Kevin Rudd had a Twitter skirmish on Saturday in the battle of the broadband policies for their respective parties.

It started on Friday when @KRuddMP tweeted about living five kilometre from Brisbane: "Under Abbott, much of my community gets zero upgrade".

Twitter tiff: Malcolm Turnbull and Kevin Rudd.

By 10am on Saturday, @TurnbullMalcolm took him to task: "@KRuddMP not correct Our plan will improve your area's bband speeds by taking it from adsl to vdsl most wd have 50 megs - 25 is the minimum." (Translation better speeds are achievable by changing the digital line type).