It’s been less than four days since Colbert Super PAC changed hands from comedian Stephen Colbert to his colleague Jon Stewart and was renamed the Definitely Not Coordinating With Stephen Colbert Super PAC. Political analysts were wondering how long it would take for the new PAC to start airing ads in South Carolina. Well, wonder no more, because a new ad from the PAC targets Mitt Romney over his “corporations are people” comment.

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Why won’t government regulators leave corporations alone, Stephen Colbert wondered during last night’s episode of The Colbert Report. Why shouldn’t Product-American’s be afforded the same rights as the rest of us? ”The First Amendment protects not only speech you like, but speech you don’t like,” he reminds. “Therefore government regulators must not persecute products just because they don’t fit some beurocrats narrow definition of ‘fireproof’ or ‘potable.’”

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It’s no secret that large corporations still have to figure out social media. Even when they’re not buttoned-up and unresponsive, they’re routinely outmatched by smaller, chattier Tweeters. We put together seven surprising comparisons between deep-pocketed companies and their offbeat Twitter competitors. Spoiler alert: a farting robot is in the same league as a $30 billion corporation.