The NEW YORK STATE tweeting bank for Sen. Sanders

[This is a suggested form of New York State tweeting bank if Senator Sanders issues the campaign statement urged at http://2016candidatesdeclarations.blogspot.com/2016/04/going-for-broke-in-ny-state-primary.html ]

TO: As many NEW YORK DEMOCRATS  as we can tweet to

This message is being tweeted to you individually.

We who are tweeting to you are both New York residents and non-residents. We are Republicans, Democrats and independents.

We believe the only Presidential candidate who is credible for fixing the country's corrupt campaign finance system is Senator Sanders, and it is of utmost importance that New York Democrats vote for Senator Sanders next Tuesday.  (This is a closed primary and only New York residents who are registered Democrats can vote in the Democratic primary and vote for Senator Sanders.)

Our efforts with this tweeting 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. Senator Sanders is our leader for this effort, per the campaign statement he has put on his campaign website, which can be found at [link to campaign statement when Senator Sanders makes statement]

We hope to send individually directed tweets to thousands of New York State Democrats, 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 York State Democrats 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 NEW YORK STATE TWEETING BANK
A. General
The tweeting involves a non-standard use of Twitter, namely, the sending of very large numbers of individually directed tweets to followers of Twitter accounts of Democratic party organizations.
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 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:

It is imperative New York Democratss vote for Bernie Sanders in Tues. primary in order to save our country. http://2016candidatesdeclarations.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-new-york-state-tweeting-bank-for.html

C. Persons to send your individually directed tweets to
The object is to find Twitter accounts of  New York Democratic party organizations which have a lot of New York Democrats who are followers, which you can send your tweets to. If a person's twitter profile indicates the person is a New York resident, send the person a tweet as likely being a Democrat.
Do not worry about redundancy and whether others participating in this tweeting bank may also be tweeting to the same person. If a Twitter account "follower" list is long, you might scroll down in the list and randomly pick a person to start with.
Here are suggestions for Democratic party organization follower lists to tweet to:
https://twitter.com/NYSenDems/followers
https://twitter.com/UBDems/followers
https://twitter.com/NYUDems/followers
https://twitter.com/rocklanddems/followers
https://twitter.com/AlbanyDemocrats/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 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.


4/16/16 COMPARISON TO PHONE BANKING

48 hours. 15,000 volunteers. Two million calls. Take NY by phone! https://t.co/swgLELawrH

— WV4Bernie (@IMMDFH) April 16, 2016

Two million calls by 15,000 volunteers translates to 133 calls per volunteer. In the tweet banking described above, a single volunteer can easily send 100 tweets in an hour and can probably send 200 tweets in an hour. Using the 200 number, if the volunteer tweets for 2-1/2 hours on Saturday and 2-1/2 hours on Sunday, that volunteer cans send 1000 tweets during the weekend. One thousand volunteers can send 1,000,000 tweets and 15,000 volunteers can send 15,000,000 tweets.

Also, the tweeting bank has the potential that recipients of tweets may themselves send tweets (i.e., a pyramiding effect) and significantly increase the total number of tweets that are sent.