Conservative sources told BBC News they were "completely relaxed" about the tweet and "astonished" by the row, adding it would not be "pulled" because it was a "one-off" message and not part of any campaign.
But when you actually start to have a conversation with people and can see them responding to you in realtime, it becomes more like an IM service instead of the way we've typically viewed Twitter: with static one-off messages and maybe a reply here or there.
But with just one off-message statement that he was quickly forced to retract, he became the prominent public face of the House Republicans who are refusing to re-open the United States government.
But on Monday, one GOP lawmaker went off message.
Low risk patients will be offered a single one off education/exercise class offering positive messages on LBP management in line with recommended guidelines.
"Including," she said in a phone interview, "one totally off-message and off-subject on Egypt".
If it was time for gorillas to cute up, though, at least one was off-message.
No one goes off-message quite like Nurse Jackie, and soon she's throwing all caution in the incinerator as things take a turn for the dramatic on all fronts.
Aresco refused to veer off message.
"But he did go off message".
But House Democrats sometimes slip off message.
