TWEETING BANK FOR ALABAMA 6th CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT TO #DeclareForDemocracy
TO: As many voters in the Alabama 6th 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 are both in and outside the Alabama 6th Congressional district. 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 corrupt or not, and to pass reform for voters to consider in November. To do that we want all Congressional candidates to demand publicly that Congress address this before Nov. 8th, so that voters can take into account what Congress does (or does not do) in casting their votes 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 in the nation, including the Alabama 6th Congressional district, as possible.
We hope to send individually directed tweets to thousands of voters in the Alabama 6th 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 Alabama 6th Congressional district, please follow the guidance provided below and join in the tweeting.
We of course want Rep. Gary Palmer and David Palmer, who are running in the Alabama 6th Congressional district, to know about this, so we have tweet buttons below for sending a tweet to the candidates. The tweet that will pop up for you to send will read:
@____ Demand the current Congress address its corruption before Nov. 8th. #DeclareForDemocracy. http://2016candidatesdeclarations.blogspot.com/2016/06/al06-tweeting-bank.htmlTweet here to Rep. Gary Palmer
Tweet here to David Putnam
For information about where Rep. Gary Palmer and David Putnam stand on fighting the corrupting influence of money in politics, go to http://www.whowillfightbigmoney.org/alabama.
We hope you agree with our #DeclareForDemocracy citizen effort.
Thank you.
GUIDANCE FOR TWEETING IN AL6th 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 Twitter users you don't personally know. A ground has been staked out with Twitter for this method of tweeting. See letter to Twitter @Support.
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, but feel free to compose your own (hopefully your tweet will have a link to this webpage).
Tweet for AL06 candidates Gary Palmer and David Putnam to #DeclareForDemocracy. http://2016candidatesdeclarations.blogspot.com/2016/06/al06-tweeting-bank.htmlC. 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 the Alabama 6th Congressional district (see this map) that you can send your tweets to. If a person's twitter profile indicates the person is in the Birmingham metro area, that should suffice and don't be bothered that the person might be in the 7th Congressional district (in which most of the City of Birmingham is located).
Do not worry about redundancy and whether others participating in this tweeting bank may also be tweeting to the same person.
Here are suggestions of "follower" lists to find people to tweet to:
https://twitter.com/GreaterShelby/followers
https://twitter.com/OTMJ_Life/followers
https://twitter.com/HomewoodHigh/followers
https://twitter.com/TrussTribune/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.
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