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TO: As many [NAME OF STATE] residents (regardless of political affiliation) as we can tweet to
This message is being tweeted to you individually.
We who are tweeting to you support Senator Bernie Sanders for President of the United States.
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.
While Senator Sanders has not expressly approved this, we think he is the Presidential candidate who would be the strongest advocate that this be done.
We are calling this citizen effort #DeclareForDemocracy.
We want as much publicizing of #DeclareForDemocracy as possible in [name of State] leading up to the March 1st primary election.
We hope to send individually directed tweets to thousands of [name of State] residents, which tweets will have links to this page.
If you come to this page and want to help us do even more tweeting to [name of State] residents, please follow the guidance provided below and join in the tweeting.
We hope you agree with us that Senator Sanders would be the strongest advocate for this #DeclareForDemocracy citizen effort.
Thank you.
GUIDANCE FOR TWEETING IN THE SANDERS [NAME OF STATE] 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" [name of State] Twitter hashtags or to followers of "relevant" [name of State] 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 Sanders [NAME OF STATE] tweeting bank, go to https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/2016congressionalcandidatesdeclarations. To post there, you need to apply to be in the group, and I will approve you.
B. Suggested tweet message
Here is a suggested tweet messages to use, or compose your own message:
[Name of State] residents should embrace #DeclareForDemocracy; we think Senator Sanders is its best embodiment. [link to webpage where the tweeting bank is posted]C. Persons to send your individually directed tweets to
The object is to find [name of State] hashtags and [name of State] twitter accounts which show a lot of [name of State] twitter users that you can send your tweets to. If a person's twitter profile indicates the person is a [name of State] resident, 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. 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 [name of State] hashtags and "following" or "follower" lists to find [name of State] residents to tweet to:
[The below are examples from the Alabama tweeting bank. Appropriate Twitter accounts and hashtags for the subject State should be found and listed
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
Please submit to the blog author information about Twitter follower accounts or following accounts you have tweeted to, and such information (without identifying you) will be reported here. Also, numbers of page views of this blog entry will also be reported here periodically to confirm that the tweeting that goes on results on recipients clicking on the link and coming here.
DISCUSSION
The tweeting banks I am advocating concern the issue I am most interested in. I think that has the broadest appeal to voters across the political spectrum.
The tweeting bank currently says that there is not express approval by Senator Sanders. It should be obvious that I think it would be super if Senator Sanders expressly endorsed the #DeclareForDemocracy citizen effort. I very much hope this percolates up to him, and he does that. In the meantime, the above wording is suggested for use.
I have no problem with the Sanders campaign using the tweeting bank idea however it chooses. That includes (i) having the wording of the webpage that is linked to by tweets as the Sanders campaign wants, (ii) having the linked webpage placed on one of the campaign's websites and under the campaign's control, and (iii) using the tweeting bank idea for any other campaign issue that the Sanders campaign desires.
The basic idea of the tweeting bank is for it to be self-growing, i.e., recipients of tweets come to the linked webpage and decide to join in the tweeting, and I hope the Sanders campaign senses great potential value in that.
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