The Margin: How to grow your Twitter following from 400 to 66,000 in one weekend: Get hit with a formal complaint by Mike Huckabee

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Mike Huckabee, whether it be on TV or across social media, is the undisputed king of the cringiest dad jokes. Of course, in these divided times, not everybody’s a fan. Mashable once described him as a “sentient moldy marshmallow” who is “one of the worst things about Twitter” after this tweet:

And who could forget this gem:

But Huckabee sure seems to get sensitive when the tables are turned.

Lawyer Daniel Uhlfelder found that out recently, the Sun-Sentinel reported, when he threw Twitter shade at Huckabee over the former Arkansas governor’s desire to keep the public from accessing the beach in front of his $7 million Florida home.

Read more about “Mike Huckabee’s epic fight to keep beachgoers off his patch of Florida sand.”

Here’s the kind of tweet that rubbed Huckabee the wrong way:

Now, Huckabee, in a formal complaint, has reportedly accused Uhlfelder, who’s on a legal team fighting for public beach access, of “vile and unprofessional attacks” and “repeatedly posting disparaging information about me.”

According to the Sun-Sentinel, there may be more behind the feud. Huckabee’s complaint was filed on October 15, four days after Uhlfelder fired off this:

If nothing else comes out of this virtual tussle with Huckabee, Uhlfelder has become quite the Twitter TWTR, +0.50% sensation, with his following exploding from about 400 to more than 66,000 over the course of one weekend.

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