The IOWA tweeting bank

First, a youtube video

TO: As many IOWANS (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 Iowans and non-Iowans.

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 for their Congressional candidates in November. For more information, please see 2016 Congressional candidates' Declarations.

We are calling this citizen effort #DeclareForDemocracy.

We want the Presidential candidates to promote #DeclareForDemocracy.

We want as much publicizing of #DeclareForDemocracy as possible.

On February 1st, Iowa votes first in the country, for which Iowa 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 Iowans, which tweets will have links to this page.

If you come to this page and want to help us do even more tweeting to Iowans, 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 IOWA TWEETING BANK
A. General
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"  Iowa Twitter hashtags or to followers of "relevant" Iowa 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 IOWA tweeting blank, go to Google group topic The IOWA 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. Iowans should embrace #DeclareForDemocracy, and the Presidential candidates should promote it. http://2016candidatesdeclarations.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-iowa-tweeting-bank.html
2. Bernie Sanders is the candidate who will best advance the #DeclareForDemocracy citizen effort. http://2016candidatesdeclarations.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-iowa-tweeting-bank.html
3. Donald Trump is the best candidate for fixing our corrupt Congress. http://2016candidatesdeclarations.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-iowa-tweeting-bank.html

C. Persons to send your individually directed tweets to
The object is to find Iowa hashtags and Iowa twitter accounts which show a lot of Iowan twitter users that you can send your tweets to. If a person's twitter profile indicates the person is an Iowan, 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 Iowa twitter account, as well as the "follower" list,  can be used to find Iowans 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 Iowa hashtags and "following" or "follower" lists to find Iowans to tweet to:
https://twitter.com/DesMoinesMetro/following
https://twitter.com/DesMoinesMetro/followers
https://twitter.com/ICDowntown/following
https://twitter.com/CityofCRiowa/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
There have been 786 page views of this blog entry.
I have tweeted to users of the hashtags #iacaucus and #demdebate this tweet:

Tweeting for Iowans and the candidates to embrace #DeclareForDemocracy. http://2016candidatesdeclarations.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-iowa-tweeting-bank.html

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There have been 1892 page views of this entry.
Yesterday and today I tweeted to users of the #DemTownHall hashtag this tweet:

Tweet to Iowans to embrace #DeclareForDemocracy. http://2016candidatesdeclarations.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-iowa-tweeting-bank.html

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See Calling for more tweeters.

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See Phone banks versus tweeting banks