ALABAMA tweeting bank

First, a youtube video

TO: As many fellow Alabamians (regardless of political affiliation) as I/we can tweet to

I am an Alabamian.

I, and others who join me, are tweeting to you individually.

I/we believe the American voters should use the 2016 elections to force Congress to confront, before Nov. 8, 2016, whether it is badly corrupt or not, and to pass reform for voters to consider in how they vote in November. For more information, please see 2016 Congressional candidates' Declarations.

I/we are calling this citizen effort #DeclareForDemocracy.

In Alabama, there are seven Congressional district elections and also an election for United States Senator. Our goal is get the candidates in these elections to call on Congress to act before Nov. 8, 2016 or else face consequences from Alabama voters on November 8th.

Further, I/we want the Presidential candidates to express support for our citizen effort to force Congressional action before November 8th. If your Presidential candidate does not endorse #DeclareForDemocracy, I/we urge you to switch your support to a Presidential candidate who does.

#DeclareForDemocracy needs as much publicity and citizen mobilization as possible. I/we hope to send individual tweets to thousands of Alabamians.

Our tweets will have links to this page. If you come to this page and want to help do more tweeting to Alabamians, please follow the guidance provided below and join in the tweeting.

For information about how the citizen effort is progressing in the seven Congressional districts and in the United States Senate race in Alabama, please see the links for Alabama in the entry Districts and states with activity.

I/we hope you agree with this #DeclareForDemocracy citizen effort.

Thank you.

GUIDANCE FOR TWEETING IN THE ALABAMA TWEETING BANK
A. General (modeled after The IOWA tweeting bank)
The tweeting bank involves a non-standard use of Twitter, namely, the sending of very large numbers of individually directed tweets to users of "relevant" Alabama Twitter hashtags or to followers of "relevant" Alabama Twitter accounts  (such as a local political party Twitter account).
A ground has been staked out with Twitter for this method of tweeting. See letter to Twitter @Support.
The object of this method of tweeting is to break out of like minded social media circles in order to "push out" messaging to a wider audience. For discussion of this, please read Breaking out of like minded social media circles.
I do my tweeting on a computer, and I don't know how easily the tweeting can be done on a phone.

B. Your tweet message
Decide on a tweet message you want to use. You might use a generic message, such as

Alabamians should embrace #DeclareForDemocracy, and the Presidential candidates should promote it. http://2016candidatesdeclarations.blogspot.com/2016/01/alabama-tweeting-bank.html

Alternatively, use a tweet message which expresses your belief that the Presidential candidate you support will best advance #DeclareForDemocracy. Some examples:

Bernie Sanders is the candidate who will best advance the #DeclareForDemocracy citizen effort. http://2016candidatesdeclarations.blogspot.com/2016/01/alabama-tweeting-bank.html

Donald Trump is the best candidate for fixing our corrupt Congress. http://2016candidatesdeclarations.blogspot.com/2016/01/alabama-tweeting-bank.html

Jeb is best for #DeclareForDemocracy because _____________. http://2016candidatesdeclarations.blogspot.com/2016/01/alabama-tweeting-bank.html

Etc., etc.  

C. Persons to send your individually directed tweets to
The object is to find Alabama hashtags and Alabama twitter accounts which show a lot of Alabama twitter users that you can send your tweets to. If a person's twitter profile indicates the person is an Alabamian, be selective or indiscriminate as you choose in sending the person a tweet or not.
Do not worry about redundancy and whether others participating in this tweeting bank may also be tweeting to the same person.
The "following" list on an Alabama twitter account, as well as the "follower" list,  can be used to find Alabamians to tweet to. If a "following" list or a "follower" list is long, you might scroll down in the list and randomly pick a person to start with.
Here are suggestions for Alabama hashtags and "following" or "follower" lists to find Alabamians to tweet to:
https://twitter.com/BCAToday/followers
https://twitter.com/ALcomHuntsville/followers
https://twitter.com/ShelbyCountyGOP/followers
https://twitter.com/UofAlabama/followers
https://twitter.com/AuburnU/followers
https://twitter.com/Sewell4Congress/followers

D. How to send your tweets efficiently
In doing your tweeting, you are repetitively sending the same tweet message. This can be done very efficiently. Get the tweet message on your mouse clipboard, go to the follower list or hashtag listing you are using for your tweeting, start with the first person on the list you want to tweet to, and do this:
1. Right click on person's Twitter name.
2. Choose "open in new tab"
3. Go to the new tab.
4. Click on the "Tweet to" button.
5. Paste the tweet message in the box.
6. Hit the "Tweet" button.
7. Close the tab, which takes you back to the list
8. Go on to next person, and repeat above steps.
You should be able to send 30 to 40 tweets in a half hour. Send as many tweets as you are willing to. Don't worry about any duplication that you think may arise.
If you are using a hashtag listing, be careful NOT to send your tweet using the "reply" button. Instead, send a clean, new tweet by right clicking on the person's Twitter name as specified in instruction 1 above.

REPORTS ON TWEETING
1/30/16
I have tweeted to McConnell2016 followers this tweet:

In deciding who our next President shall be, what should our country do about Congress? http://2016candidatesdeclarations.blogspot.com/2016/01/alabama-tweeting-bank.html

I have had 271 page views of http://2016candidatesdeclarations.blogspot.com/2016/01/alabama-tweeting-bank.html.
@tycoffey, @lukecamara, @the82ndman, @SoulfulPanda and @uacpa12 have me blocked.

2/13/16
See The IOWA tweeting bank, Phone banks versus tweeting banks, NEW HAMPSHIRE tweeting bank, Where do Presidential candidates stand and SOUTH CAROLINA tweeting bank for reports on tweeting in connection with The IOWA tweeting bank, NEW HAMPSHIRE tweeting bank and SOUTH CAROLINA tweeting bank

2/13/16
See Independent protest candidate in AL 6th Cong'l district?