Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Twitter storm compare

The direct tweeting to Alabama voters that is sought by the tweeting banks in this blog should be compared with Twitter Storms.

Twitter Storms
There is a Twitter Storm for Doug Jones scheduled for tommorow:
If you go to the Tweetsheet https://t.co/xERP3cRzi2, you will see the alternative tweet messages that participants may select to send in the Twitter Storm. All the tweet messages show the #DigDoug hashtag, so all the tweets that are sent in the Twitter Storm should show up under that hashtag. In addition, a participant's tweet in the Twitter Storm will show up on the Twitter feeds of the participant's followers. The Twitter Storm may have trending.

By looking on the #DigDoug hashtag tomorrow, you will be able to see how many participants send tweets in the Twitter Storm.

From that, you may try to judge for yourself how many Alabama voters will see tweets sent in the Twitter Storm, and who those Alabama voters are.

You might consider the extent to which the tweets in the Twitter Storm are seen only by like minded persons who already know who Doug Jones is, who already have an interest in Doug Jones, and/or who already favor Doug Jones.

You may conclude from considering the nature of the Twitter Storm that its reach to Alabama voters is limited, particularly to Alabama voters who don't know Doug Jones and whom you would like to reach with your tweet in order to try to persuade them to vote for Doug Jones.

Directed tweeting to AL voters
The goal of tweeting banks is the organized sending of individual tweets to as many Twitter accounts in Alabama as possible. There are probably a couple hundred thousand of those.

The tweets have links that contain pro-Doug Jones messaging. The links ask tweet recipients to join in the sending of tweets, seeking to create a pyramiding of tweets.

The main resource for finding Alabama Twitter addresses to tweet to are follower lists of Alabama Twitter accounts having lots of Alabama followers. Also hashtags, such as #RollTide, that are used by many Alabama tweeters can be availed of for finding Alabama Twitter accounts.

My experience is that I have had good success in sending directed tweets with links and the links getting clicked on.
In my tweeting banks, I say that 35 to 70 tweets can be efficiently sent in a half hour. (I think actually 3 or 4 can be sent in a minute. I have at times sent directed tweets as fast as 3 or 4 a minutes. I have not had a problem with Twitter temporarily stopping me from sending tweets.)

To have success, this tweeting effort needs Doug Jones tweeters who will tweet under Step Two of the tweeting banks. If you do the arithmetic, depending on how many Doug Jones tweeters do tweeting, and how much time they are willing to spend on tweeting, several hundred thousand could easily be sent to Alabama Twitter accounts before December 12th.
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