Tweeting during debate

I wish to suggest what I think is more effective live tweeting by #DeclareForDemocracy reformers during Tuesday night's Republican Presidential debate. [Edit 12/18 This was originally drafted for the Republican debate earlier this week. Revisions have been made to adapt it for tomorrow night's Democratic debate.]

My experience is that hundreds of tweets per minute can stream under the debate hashtags that are used by tweeters during a Presidential debate. (The hashtags for the Republican debate were #CNNDebate and #GOPDebate. For the Democratic debate, #DemDebate is being used.)

It would seem that the object of campaign finance reformers should be to do messaging that gets more notice rather than less.

It is my belief that, in the stream of tweets during the Presidential debates, tweets of campaign finance reformers appearing in the stream under the above debate hashtags will receive very little notice.

I believe more notice can be obtained if individual, directed tweets are sent to tweeters whose tweets appear in the stream under the #CNNDebate or#GOPDebate or #DemDebate  hashtag, and further better messaging will be achieved if the individually directed tweets contain links to a fuller message. These individually directed tweets need not use the debate hashtag, and it is probably better if they don't use the hashtag.

I have had excellent experience with getting tweet recipients at least to click on a link that my individually directed tweets contain. With a tweet specifically addressed to a recipient, there seems to be a significant inclination to click by reason of  the tweet being personally addressed to the recipient.

The extent to which tweet recipients read the links that they click on is highly uncertain, as is the extent to which recipients are in any way influenced by the tweets and the links.

Notwithstanding, if the first step of effective messaging is to get a  message in front of the eyeballs of the persons being targeted with the message, the method of individually directed tweets seems to me to be better than tweeting unaddressed tweets in the hashtag stream.

The views of other campaign finance reformers are solicited about what kind of treating during debates is to be preferred.

As for tweet messages and links to tweet during this week's Presidential debates, I would suggest the following for consideration by #DeclareForDemocracy reformers:

Make Congress count. Get your Congressional candidates to #DeclareForDemocracy. http://2016candidatesdeclarations.blogspot.com/2015/11/2016-congressional-candidate-declaration.html

or

Congress counts. Get your Congressional candidates to #DeclareForDemocracy. http://2016candidatesdeclarations.blogspot.com/2015/11/2016-congressional-candidate-declaration.html

If you are amenable to sending individually directed tweets to tweeters using the #CNNDebate or #GOPDebate or #DemDebate hashtag, 30 or 40 tweets can be sent in 15 minutes. Just pick a starting point in the tweets in the stream, and follow the note set out at the end of Tactics.

UPDATE 12/15/15
Comments from others:

@RobShattuckAL06 the most effective tweeting: Comment on responses from an official source #GOPdebate https://t.co/l0mo0lZWoJ

— mañe (@mahurtadoz) December 14, 2015

@RobShattuckAL06 Absolutely if a common theme is used i.e. #Hashtag.

— Georga Grivois (@Georga2012) December 14, 2015

@RobShattuckAL06 I would say that tweeting "into stream" really puts the pressure on and allows us to dive deep into our aspirations

— Bernie's Advocate (@daily_chief) December 15, 2015

Further, see Getting the people organized.