The Sanders MICHIGAN GOTV tweeting bank

First, a youtube video

TO: As many MICHIGANDERS (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 Michiganders and non-Michiganders.

We believe the only credible Presidential candidate for fixing the country's corrupt campaign finance system is Senator Bernie Sanders, and it is of utmost importance that as many Michiganders as possible get out and vote for Senator Sanders in the Democratic primary on Tuesday. (This is an open primary and any Michigan voter can choose to vote in the Democratic primary and vote for Senator Sanders.)

Our efforts with this tweeting bank are part of a nationwide citizen effort for the American voters to 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.

While Senator Sanders has not expressly endorsed DeclareForDemocracy, we believe he will as more citizens join in the effort and look to Senator Sanders as the Presidential candidate who offers the citizens their best chance.

We hope to send individually directed tweets to thousands of Michiganders, which tweets will have links to this page.

If you come to this page and want to help us do even more tweeting to Michiganders to get them to get out and vote for Senator Sanders on Tuesday, please follow the guidance provided below and join in the tweeting.

Thank you very much.

GUIDANCE FOR TWEETING IN THE SANDERS MICHIGAN GOTV 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"  Michigan Twitter hashtags or to followers of "relevant" Michigan 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 MICHIGAN GOTV tweeting bank, go to https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/2016congressionalcandidatesdeclarations. To post there, you need to apply to be in the group, and you will be approved.

B. Suggested tweet message
Here is a suggested tweet messages to use, or compose your own message:

Michiganders should embrace #DeclareForDemocracy; we think Senator Sanders is its best embodiment. http://2016candidatesdeclarations.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-sanders-michigan-gotv-tweeting-bank.html

C. Persons to send your individually directed tweets to
The object is to find Michigan hashtags and Michigan twitter accounts which show a lot of Michigan twitter users that you can send your tweets to. If a person's twitter profile indicates the person is a Michigan, 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 Michigan hashtags and "following" or "follower" lists to find Michiganders to tweet to:
[the below list is for Alabama and will be changed if and when this tweeting bank is finalized
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.