Friday, September 18, 2020

Birmingham tweeters for Biden/Harris/Jones

Birmingham tweeters saying:
BIDEN/HARRIS/JONES -YES
TRUMP/PENCE/TUBERVILLE -NO

We who are tweeting to you want to end the Trump presidency and end the Trump Senate.

We want to do this by electing Joe Biden as President and Kamala Harris as Vice President, and reelecting Doug Jones as United States Senator from Alabama. 

We adamantly say Biden/Harris/Jones - YES.

We adamantly say Trump/Pence/Tuberville -  NO. 

We want to DO mass direct tweeting to fellow Alabamians in Birmingham and elsewhere of this message.

Please join with us by doing either or both of Steps One and Two below.

Step One
Click on the below "Tweet here" link  to send a tweet that says,

I am a Birmingham tweeter for Biden-Harris-Jones.
I say Biden-Harris-Jones - YES
and Trump/Pence/Tuberville - NO.
Please join with me by clicking on link.
#BidenCoalition #OneAlabama #alpolitics 
https://al4bidenharrisjones.blogspot.com/2020/09/birmingham-tweeters-for-bidenharrisjones.html

(After you click on the below "Tweet here" link, you will see a preview of your tweet, and your tweet will not be sent until you click the "Tweet" button in the preview.)



Step Two
Send individual tweets to other Alabamians, which tweets have a link to this webpage. This will be to try to get recipients of tweets to come to this webpage, send their own tweet in Step One, and, after that, join in sending tweets to more Alabamans in this Step Two. The goal here to get a large number of "pyramiding" of tweets going to Alabama voters.

A suggested tweet message to send in this Step Two is:

I am a Birmingham tweeter. 
I say Biden/Harris/Jones - YES 
and Trump/Pence/Tuberville - NO. 

Then find follower lists of Twitter accounts in the Birmingham area that have a lot of followers. Below are examples of good Twitter follower lists for the Birmingham area: 

https://twitter.com/pamabc3340/followers
https://twitter.com/bhamAUclub/followers
https://twitter.com/HooverHighBucs/followers
https://twitter.com/MAShow995/followers


FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS FOR YOUR TWEETING

A. General
This tweeting involves a non-standard use of Twitter, namely, the sending of large numbers of individually directed tweets to followers of other Twitter accounts (not your own followers).
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 get a "pyramiding" of tweets going in Alabama.

B. How to send your tweets efficiently from laptops
In doing your tweeting, you are repetitively sending the same tweet message. This can be done very efficiently, at least on a laptop computer. Get the tweet message on your mouse clipboard, go to the follower list  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 35 to 70 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.

C. How to send your tweets efficiently on smartphones
[to be added]



REQUIRED NOTICE
DISCLAIMER
This communication is not authorized by Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Doug Jones or any other candidate, or authorized committee of Doug Jones or other candidate, or an agent of any of the foregoing. The author of this blog Robert Shattuck is paying for this communication. His website address is www.https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com.

Under Federal election law, an uncompensated individual or group of uncompensated individuals may engage in certain voluntary Internet activities for the purpose of influencing a federal election without restriction. These exempted Internet activities do not result in a contribution or an expenditure under the Federal election law and do not trigger any registration or reporting requirements with the FEC. This exemption applies to individuals acting with or without the knowledge or consent of a campaign or a political party committee. Exempted Internet activities include, but are not limited to, sending or forwarding electronic mail, providing a hyperlink to a website, creating, maintaining or hosting a website and paying a nominal fee for the use of a website. The author of this blog is not receiving any compensation. 

Sunday, September 6, 2020

Twitter campaigning

[For reasons that will become clear, this blog entry appears identically in my two blogs Alabamians Tweeting for Biden-Harris-Jones and Alabamians Tweeting for Doug Jones.]

The digital/social media component of the Biden-Harris campaign is called the Biden Digital Coalition.

I have been selected as part of the Twitter (Hype) (Southeast) team in the Biden Digital Coalition.

I have posted on the Doug Jones for Senate facebook page this:

For what it is worth, I have been accepted as part of the Twitter (Hype) (Southeast) team for the Biden-Harris campaign.
I have done the Biden Digital Coalition onboarding course and am awaiting notification that I can go to Slack.
Whatever skills and learning I acquire in the foregoing capacity , I will be happy to apply the same to advance Doug's candidacy (subject to whatever constraints I am under as were outlined to me in the Biden Digital Coalition onboarding course).

I will be seeking guidance from the Biden Digital Coalition about how to carry out Twitter campaigning in Alabama for Biden-Harris. I seek similar guidance from the Doug Jones campaign about Twitter campaigning for him.

Subject to guidance I get from the campaigns about Twitter campaigning, I am getting to work on Twitter campaigning in Alabama

My opinion is that there should be much conjoining of the three names Biden-Harris-Jones in the Twitter campaigning in Alabama. The guidance from the campaigns may be that there should be less conjoining of Biden-Harris and Doug Jones names in Twitter campaigning in Alabama than I am envisioning. If I get such guidance, I will adjust accordingly.

For hashtags, the Biden Digital Coalition urges #TeamJoe plus a more special #BidenCoalition. For Doug Jones, I have been using #OneAlabama. I will solicit from the Biden Digital Coalition what they think about also having Alabama oriented hashtags of #TeamJoeAL and #BidenCoalitionAL.

How Twitter campaigners in Alabama can and should communicate with one another needs setting up. Pending setting up a mode of communication, feel free to communicate with me however you may choose.

I have little technical ability in the creation of webpages that might be utilized in Twitter campaigning in Alabama, and I will seek help if webpages are set up and used in the Twitter campaigning.

I will begin tweeting about Twitter campaigning in Alabama for Biden-Harris and Doug Jones.