CNN was one of the first mainstream adopters and promoters of Twitter. From Rick Sanchez’s constant use of social media sites to get viewer feedback and CNN’s race to 1 million followers against Ashton Kutcher, you could say that CNN and Twitter have had a cozy relationship.

But now a group of upset Twitter users is trying to get people to stopping watch the cable news network. @dumpCNN is a Twitter account that was started yesterday, March 16, in protest of CNN’s announcement that they hired conservative blogger Erick Erickson as a political contributor.

The first few tweets from @DumpCNN criticize the cable network for its choice of commentators.

The Twitter account has 345 followers and 56 tweets so far, but is getting a lot of retweets and mentions.

I’ll follow this over the next couple of days and update this posts. Would be interesting to see how CNN will respond, considering how much weight they have put into talking with their viewers via Twitter.