If you want to try to prosecute #FixCongressBeforeNov8th in your Congressional district, here is what I suggest:
Just as this citizen effort has been initiated via Twitter (and its communication is still limited to Twitter), I suggest that you start with Twitter.
I recommend that your campaign begin similarly to that embodied in the state "tweeting banks" I have been setting up. The first one I did was for Iowa. Take a look at The IOWA tweeting bank to get an understanding of what I suggest for you in your Congressional district.
The basic idea of The IOWA tweeting bank is "I/we am tweeting to you, with a link to here, and I/we solicit you to join in the tweeting, and we thereby grow our numbers, and tweets, in our Congressional district."
So, to do that, you need a webpage to link to. I can put a webpage for your Congressional district on this blog for your tweets to link to. Alternatively, you can create and host your own webpage for your tweets to link to.
If you use my blog for a webpage for your Congressional district to link to, its exact language can be tailored to suit you.
A generic form of webpage is set forth below.
Once you have your webpage for your tweets to link to, you need to decide on tweet messages to send, and on targets to send your tweets to.
For targets, you basically want voters in your Congressional district. If a Twitter profile indicates that the person appears to be in your Congressional district, you can be indiscriminate or selective as you choose in sending the person a tweet or not.
For your tweets, two suggestions are:
All voters and candidates in the ____ Cong'l district need to demand #FixCongressBeforeNov8th, or else. [link to webpage]and/or
Tweet for candidates in the ____ Cong'l district to demand current Congress #FixCongressBeforeNov8th [link to webpage]
[Template for your webpage]
THE ___ CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT NEEDS TO FORCE THE CURRENT CONGRESS TO FACE UP TO ITS CORRUPTION BEFORE NOV. 8TH
TO: As many voters in the __ Congressional district (regardless of political affiliation) as we can tweet to
This message is being tweeted to you individually.
We who are tweeting to you share the belief that the American voters should use the 2016 elections to force the current Congress to confront, before Nov. 8, 2016, its corruption, and to pass reform for voters to consider in November, or else face eviction from office on Nov. 8th. For more information, please see 2016 Congressional candidates' Declarations.
Our Presidential candidates, corrupt Hillary and wacko Donald, are a failure for the country and cannot be looked to to provide leadership on fixing Congress before Nov. 8th.
We are calling this citizen effort #FixCongressBeforeNov8th.
We want all voters and Congressional candidates in the ____ Congressional district to shout out #FixCongressBeforeNov8th.
We want as much publicizing of this nationwide and in the ___ Congressional district as possible.
The tweeting we are doing is intended to contribute to the above.
We hope to send individually directed tweets to thousands of voters in the ___ Congressional district, which tweets will have links to this page.
If you come to this page and want to help us do even more tweeting to voters in the ___ Congressional district, please follow the guidance provided below and join in the tweeting.
We of course want our candidates in the ___ Congressional district to know about this, so we have a tweet button below each Congressional candidate in our district for sending a tweet to the candidate. The tweet that pops up for your to send will read:
@____ I request that you publicly demand that the current Congress #FixCongressBeforeNov8th, or else. [link to webpage]TWEET TO CANDIDATE X BUTTON
TWEET TO CANDIDATE Y BUTTON, etc.
We hope you agree with our #DeclareForDemocracy citizen effort.
Thank you.
GUIDANCE FOR TWEETING IN THE ___ CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
A. General
This tweeting involves a non-standard use of Twitter, namely, the sending of very large numbers of individually directed tweets to users of "relevant" Twitter hashtags or to followers of "relevant" Twitter accounts for the ___ Congressional district.
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 this tweeting, go to Google group topic Congressional district tweeting.
B. Your tweet message
For your tweets, we suggest the following tweet messages that we are sending, but feel free to compose your own (hopefully your tweet have a link to this webpage).
For your tweets, two suggestions are:
All voters and candidates in the ____ Cong'l district need to demand #FixCongressBeforeNov8th, or else. [link to webpage]and/or
Tweet for candidates in the ____ Cong'l district to demand current Congress #FixCongressBeforeNov8th [link to webpage]C. Persons to send your individually directed tweets to
The object is to find hashtags and twitter accounts which show a lot of twitter users in our ___ Congressional districts that you can send your tweets to. If a person's twitter profile indicates the person appears to be in our ___ Congressional district, 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.
Here are suggestions for hashtags and "following" or "follower" lists to find people to tweet to:
[follower lists of Congressional candidates in ___district]
[more to be added]
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
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