Alabamians Tweeting for Doug Jones for Senate: Blanketing AL twitter accounts

[Update 12/9: Yesterday I received upwards of a 100 retweets and likes about direct tweeting to AL voters during Trump's Pensacola rally per blog entry Trump's Pensacola rally. I am not aware that anyone actually did tweeting. This blog entry and Trump's Pensacola rally strongly urge massive direct tweeting to AL voters and set out how to do it during the next three days for anyone who is motivated.]

[Rev. 12/6/17]
This is to push for Doug Jones supporters to "blanket" Alabama twitter accounts with pro-Doug tweets during the next six days.

I can't "blanket" Alabama twitter accounts by myself, but I am doing tweeting that illustrates how this can be done.

If you scroll through my Tweets & replies, you will see a large number of individually addressed tweets that say as follows:

Vote for Doug Jones because Trump and Republicans have failed average Americans on health care and taxes. https://t.co/SpzjvNtcAR
— Rob Shattuck (@RobShattuckAL06) December 4, 2017

Although the above embedding of my tweet does not show the text of the link, the recipient sees the text, which is the following tweet of one Will Slaughter of Milwaukee WI.

Alabama Republicans should also vote for Doug Jones to punish the GOP Congress for its overall fecklessness, between failing to articulate a sensible health care reform agenda & a tax plan that will raise taxes for many wage earners.#DougJonesForSenate
— Will Slaughter (@MilwaukeeBonds) November 13, 2017

To find persons in Alabama to send my tweets to, I have used follower lists of other Twitter accounts. In sending my tweets thus far, I have used these follower lists: https://twitter.com/IndivisibleALD6/followers; https://twitter.com/huntsvillealcoc/following; https://twitter.com/GuntersvilleCoC/followers

For my tweets, I included Will Slaughter's tweet for its substance, and also because he is a native of Alabama, and his father is Bill Slaughter, who lives in Mountain Brook, was once in the Alabama House of Representatives as a Republican, to my knowledge continues a Republican, and is a prominent name in Alabama.

I sent my tweets using a laptop. Except for the addressee, the tweets I sent were all the same.

I did my tweeting by getting the tweet message on my mouse clipboard, and then, starting with the first person on the follower list I was using (e.g. https://twitter.com/IndivisibleALD6/followers ), I did as follows:
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.

I limited myself mainly to persons on the follower list who showed they lived in Alabama. When I went to the new tab in Step 3 above, I could decide whether I wanted to send a tweet. If I decided not to send a tweet, I skipped to Step 7 and proceeded from there.

Tweeting as described above, it is fairly easy to send 35 to 70 tweets in a half hour.

I have never tweeted using a cellphone, and I don't know whether similar efficient sending of tweets can be done on a cellphone. I am interested in learning how well a cellphone works for doing the above described tweeting.

Depending how many Doug Jones supporters will do the above kind of tweeting, hundreds of thousands of tweets can be sent to Alabama voters in the next six days.

All Doug Jones volunteers need to do is pick a Twitter account follower list they want to tweet to, compose the tweet message they want to send, and start tweeting.

If you tweet, consider telling other tweeters about your tweeting, by sending a "general" tweet that says what follower list you used, your tweet message, and about how many tweets you sent. I suggest you tweet use the hashtags #DougJonesForSenate and #Tweets2ALVoters4DougJones.

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Alabamians Tweeting for Doug Jones for Senate

Monday, December 4, 2017

Blanketing AL twitter accounts

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