The basic idea of the tweeting bank is "I/we are 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."
For a tweeting bank, you need a webpage for tweets 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, I suggest something like:
We are tweeting in the __ Cong'l district to demand our current Congress take action regarding its corruption before Nov. 8th. [link to webpage]As for your webpage for tweets to link to, I suggest something like:
OUR ___ CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT SAYS, "FORCE THE CURRENT CONGRESS TO ACT ON 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 Congress to confront, before Nov. 8, 2016, whether it is corrupt or not, and to pass reform for voters to consider in November. For more information, please see 2016 Congressional candidates' Declarations.
Hillary Clinton says, if elected President, she will make money in politics reform a top priority from the beginning of her time in office. For a clip from a speech of hers about this in New Hampshire on July 12th, go to http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4610358/hillary-clinton-speaks-money-politics-new-hampshire
We who are tweeting to you don't see why the country has to wait until next year to fix Congress.
Also, we think Bill and Hillary Clinton, for more than 25 years, have been master practitioners and supreme beneficiaries of the corrupting influence of money in politics, and we don't think Hillary Clinton can be trusted on this issue.
In the very first debate, Donald Trump said the system is broken.
Donald Trump has been saying that many times, in many ways, ever since.
We think Donald Trump is the Presidential candidate who can best lead the country against the corrupting influence of money in politics.
The President alone, however, cannot make the reforms needed to address the problem of the corrupting influence of money in politics. Congress is ultimately needed to do that, and perhaps a constitutional amendment as well.
Congress has not been responsive to the wishes of the American people that the corrupting influence of money in politics be curtailed. One of the reasons is that Congress and the Washington political class benefit from keeping the electorate divided and preventing needed citizen unity to force Congress to face up to the corruption.
The reasons for the non-responsiveness of Congress would persist regardless of who is elected President, and a special national political effort is needed to overcome the non-responsiveness of Congress on this matter.
We want there to be a concerted citizen effort throughout the country to demand that all candidates for Congress demand that the current Congress take up this matter before election day as part of a national debate.
In this national debate, incumbent members of Congress may take the position that there is no serious problem that needs addressing before November 8th, and they will not vote for the U.S. Senate or House of Representatives to take the matter up for debate and action before November 8th.
Alternatively, incumbent members of Congress may say there is a serious problem that needs addressing before November 8th, they may specify their own diagnosis of the problem, and they may propose what they think the solution or solutions should be.
All of this will then be up for debate in Congress. Congress shall endeavor to publicize the debate to the American people, Congress shall expressly acknowledge that there are reasons Congress has not been responsive to the American people on the matter, that their debate and taking action before November 8th are part of a special national political effort to overcome the non-responsiveness, and voters should use the Congressional elections in November to vote out of office their incumbent if the voters are not reasonably satisfied with such action that Congress has taken before election day to address the problem of the corrupting influence of money in politics.
We believe that most Democrats, Republicans and independents alike can agree that such a special national political effort should be undertaken during this election year, and that all our citizens should push for this special national political effort to be effective.
We are calling this citizen effort #FixCongressBeforeNov8th.
We want as much publicizing of #FixCongressBeforeNov8th nationwide and in the ___ Congressional district as possible.
The tweeting we are doing is intended to contribute to all 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 face up to its corruption before Nov. 8th. #DeclareForDemocracy. [link to webpage]TWEET TO CANDIDATE X BUTTON
TWEET TO CANDIDATE Y BUTTON, etc.
We hope you agree with our #FixCongressBeforeNov8th 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).
We are tweeting in the __ Cong'l district to demand our current Congress take action regarding its corruption before Nov. 8th. [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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