TO: As many NEW HAMPSHIRITES (regardless of political affiliation) as we can tweet to
This message is being tweeted to you individually.
We who are tweeting to you are both New Hampshirites and non-New Hampshirites.
We share the belief that 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.
We are calling this citizen effort #DeclareForDemocracy.
We want as much publicizing of #DeclareForDemocracy as possible.
We want the Presidential candidates to endorse #DeclareForDemocracy. If your Presidential candidate does not endorse it, we urge you to switch to a Presidential candidate who does.
On February 9th, New Hampshire holds the first Presidential primary, for which New Hampshire receives inordinate national attention and news coverage.
We want #DeclareForDemocracy to partake of this attention, and the tweeting we are doing is intended to achieve that.
We hope to send individually directed tweets to thousands of New Hampshirites, which tweets will have links to this page.
If you come to this page and want to help us do even more tweeting to New Hampshirites, please follow the guidance provided below and join in the tweeting.
We hope you agree with our #DeclareForDemocracy citizen effort.
Thank you.
GUIDANCE FOR TWEETING IN THE NEW HAMPSHIRE 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" New Hampshire Twitter hashtags or to followers of "relevant" New Hampshire 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.
For questions or discussion about The NEW HAMPSHIRE tweeting bank, go to Google group topic NEW HAMPSHIRE tweeting bank.
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
Pick one of these suggested tweet messages to use or compose your own message:
1. New Hampshirites should embrace #DeclareForDemocracy, and the Presidential candidates should promote it. http://2016candidatesdeclarations.blogspot.com/2016/01/new-hampshire-tweeting-bank.html
2. Bernie Sanders is the candidate who will best advance the #DeclareForDemocracy citizen effort. http://2016candidatesdeclarations.blogspot.com/2016/01/new-hampshire-tweeting-bank.html
3. Donald Trump is the best candidate for fixing our corrupt Congress. http://2016candidatesdeclarations.blogspot.com/2016/01/new-hampshire-tweeting-bank.html
C. Persons to send your individually directed tweets to
The object is to find New Hampshire hashtags and New Hampshire twitter accounts which show a lot of New Hampshire twitter users that you can send your tweets to. If a person's twitter profile indicates the person is a New Hampshirite, 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 New Hampshire twitter account, as well as the "follower" list, can be used to find New Hampshirites 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 New Hampshire hashtags and "following" or "follower" lists to find New Hampshirites to tweet to:
https://twitter.com/ConcordNHPatch/followers (ed. 2/8 I have done a lot of this)
https://twitter.com/NewHampEvents/followers
https://twitter.com/CityofDoverNH/followers (ed. 2/8 I am starting on this)
https://twitter.com/sentinelsource/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
See The IOWA tweeting bank and Phone banks versus tweeting banks for reports on tweeting in connection with The IOWA tweeting bank.
2/3-
Yesterday I tweeted to users of #nhprimary hashtag these tweets:
Please tweet for New Hampshirites to embrace #DeclareForDemocracy. http://2016candidatesdeclarations.blogspot.com/2016/01/new-hampshire-tweeting-bank.htmland
In deciding who our next President shall be, what should our country do about Congress? http://2016candidatesdeclarations.blogspot.com/2016/01/new-hampshire-tweeting-bank.html
Today I will tweet to users of #DemTownHall hashtag this tweet:
Both Clinton and Sanders should endorse #DeclareForDemocracy tonight. http://2016candidatesdeclarations.blogspot.com/2016/01/new-hampshire-tweeting-bank.htmlThe foregoing tweeting seeks to instigate the desired tweeting to New Hampshirites generally, most of whom do not tweet using the above hashtags.
2/5-
See Where do Presidential candidates stand.
2/6-
@NHRebellion is holding a #FightBigMoney conference, which started yesterday. Many tweeters have tweeted in the form of "@BernieSanders (or @HillaryClinton) will you join the @nhrebellion this weekend to talk about your plans to #fightbigmoney? http://nhrebellion.org/convention. I have tweeted to these tweeters, "Help needed on NEW HAMPSHIRE tweeting bank. http://2016candidatesdeclarations.blogspot.com/2016/01/new-hampshire-tweeting-bank.html" There have been over 100 page views of http://2016candidatesdeclarations.blogspot.com/2016/01/new-hampshire-tweeting-bank.html as a result.
@mimbck I think more "pushing out" of messaging is needed. @DemSpring @MAYDAYUS @nhrebellion @StampStampede @RepresentDotUs @takebackorg— Rob Shattuck (@RobShattuckAL06) February 6, 2016
@Dina4InsCommCA That will take a lot of work. @DemSpring @MAYDAYUS @nhrebellion @StampStampede @RepresentDotUs @takebackorg @WolfPAChq— Rob Shattuck (@RobShattuckAL06) February 7, 2016
@Penelzpix Ty.Hopefully others will step up. @DemSpring @MAYDAYUS @nhrebellion @StampStampede @RepresentDotUs @takebackorg @WolfPAChq— Rob Shattuck (@RobShattuckAL06) February 7, 2016
@CoalesceLeft Thanks. That would be super. @DemSpring @MAYDAYUS @nhrebellion @StampStampede @RepresentDotUs @takebackorg @WolfPAChq— Rob Shattuck (@RobShattuckAL06) February 8, 2016
— OthewhomaniT (@OthewhomaniT) February 8, 2016
@OthewhomaniT I sure would like him to, but I don't know that it has even been brought to his attention.— Rob Shattuck (@RobShattuckAL06) February 8, 2016
2/9-@OthewhomaniT I don't know what importuning is being done by @DemSpring @MAYDAYUS @nhrebellion @StampStampede @RepresentDotUs @WolfPAChq— Rob Shattuck (@RobShattuckAL06) February 9, 2016
Summary of tweet banking to date: There have been 3220 page views of The IOWA tweeting bank. With New Hampshire, there have been 974 page views of this blog entry and 951 page views of Where do Presidential candidates stand. I am in Alabama, which is part of Super Tuesday on March 1st, and I have been tending to it on the side. There have been 1340 page views of ALABAMA tweeting bank and 644 page views of Let's get real, AL. After today, it will be on to the SOUTH CAROLINA tweeting bank, which has already had 221 page views.
@BernieSanders or@HillaryClinton How do you plan on protecting Medicare/Social Security? How do you plan on cleaning up the VA Mess in Washington and helping our veterans?
ReplyDeleteHow do you plan on getting disabled workers their benefits from insured employers who forced us on SSA/Medicare, thanks to congress? This has happened to our vets too.
ReplyDeleteMillions of workers disabled by employers getting away without paying WorkComp benefits including voc rehab , medical, & wages. SSA knows this & doesn't help the disabled worker either. We should be receiving more in SSA but don't, all thanks to congress. Where is all that money gone? Into the Swiss & other offshore bank acct's?
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