Alabamians Tweeting for Doug Jones for Senate

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Our Joe Biden welcome

TO: As many Alabamians as we can tweet to:

We are Doug Jones supporters.

We want to extend a Joe Biden welcome to all Alabamians and say that we would love to have you for Doug Jones.

Biden campaign to Sanders supporters: 'We'd love to have you'

A decisive victory for Biden in Michigan has put the former vice president firmly in the driver's seat to be his party's nominee.

We want to send thousands of tweets to Alabamians to ask them to join with us, and send even more thousands of tweets for Doug Jones to other Alabamians.

To join with us, please do Step One below.

Thanks.

Step One

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

I am a Doug Jones supporter tweeting a Joe Biden welcome to other Alabamians to join in supporting Doug Please you tweet too by clicking on following link. https://dougjones4senate.blogspot.com/2020/03/our-joe-biden-welcome.html #ALSen #alpolitics https://politi.co/33fVx2r

(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.)

Tweet here

DISCLAIMER
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Friday, January 4, 2019

Register voters now for Doug Jones

DRAFT

ALABAMIANS TWEETING TO REGISTER VOTERS NOW TO HELP DOUG JONES

TO: As many Alabamians as we can tweet to:

We who are tweeting to you want Doug Jones to win in 2020 and want to get active now on his behalf.

A good thing to do now is registering voters. That is a way to make a first contact this year, which can be followed up next year.

We want to publicize and recruit for this effort by means of mass direct tweeting to fellow Alabamians.

If you want to lend a helping hand in this effort, please follow Steps One and Two below.

Step One

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

I am helping Doug Jones now to win in 2020 by working in 2019 to register voters. Please join with me by clicking on https://dougjones4senate.blogspot.com/2019/01/register-voters-now-for-doug-jones.html #DougJones #alpolitics

(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.)

Tweet here

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 helping Doug Jones now to win in 2020 by working in 2019 to register voters. Please join with me by clicking on https://dougjones4senate.blogspot.com/2019/01/register-voters-now-for-doug-jones.html

Then find follower lists of Twitter accounts in your geographic area that have a lot of followers. Below are examples of good Twitter follower lists to use for the Huntsville, Birmingham, Montgomery, and Mobile areas:
https://twitter.com/ALcomHuntsville/followers
https://twitter.com/GreaterShelby/followers
https://twitter.com/OTMJ_Life/followers
https://twitter.com/HomewoodHigh/followers
https://twitter.com/TrussTribune/followers
https://twitter.com/ALcomMobile/followers
https://twitter.com/MGMAdvertiser/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
[To be completed according to whether or not the Doug Jones approves the tweeting communications.]

Saturday, March 3, 2018

Direct tweeting for Conor Lamb

This is for people who want to do organized, direct tweeting to voters in the PA18th Congressional district special election, which is ten days from now on March 13th. For information on this special election, see Ballotpedia PA18 2018 special election.

Doug Jones won the 2017 Alabama special election for the U.S. Senate. This election generated a huge amount of national interest and campaign spending. For more info see Ballotpedia AL 2017 special Senate election.

The Doug Jones campaign had a large postcarding component. It was reported that, in the postcarding effort, Alabama Democrats received 347,709 postcards that were sent by 6,376 volunteers, reminding them to vote. https://twitter.com/cyan_blue/status/941805405260333056. (For perspective, Doug Jones reported on election night that there had been 1,200,000 phone calls and 300,000 door knocks in his campaign. See Trump resistance; direct tweeting.)

There appears to be a postcarding component in the Conor Lamb campaign. https://twitter.com/banditrabbit8/status/969826220719316992

I advocated in the Doug Jones campaign for organized, direct tweeting to Alabama voters. For an explanation of the idea, see Organizing this.

There are only ten days to go until the PA18 special election on March 13th.

If anyone in the PA18 Congressional district or anywhere else would like to participate in organized direct tweeting to PA18 voters during the next 10 days, please contact me.

Saturday, December 16, 2017

Trump resistance; direct tweeting

On election night, Doug Jones said there had been 1,200,000 phone calls and 300,000 door knocks.

It has been reported that, in the postcarding effort, Alabama Democrats received 347,709 postcards that were sent by 6,376 volunteers, reminding them to vote. https://twitter.com/cyan_blue/status/941805405260333056.

New Yorker magazine published an article on Dec. 15th, "How the Trump Resistance Went Pro in Alabama"

Alabama Indivisible chapters worked hard to help elect Doug Jones. Shout out to @indivisible5al @IndivisibleBHM @IndivisibleAL @IndivisibleALD6 #TheResistance #Indivisible https://t.co/waayLEggLf
— IndivisibleWestchester (@IndivisWstchr) December 15, 2017

The article reported that 1500 national Indivisible volunteers sent 242,400 texts to likely Democrat voters in Alabama, reminding them to vote

I promoted #Tweets2ALVoters4DougJones. I was unsuccessful in that and very few such tweets were sent.

I am sure many in Indivisible are strategizing about what to do next in their Trump resistance and how to do it.

I think the most effective thing to do in the Trump resistance is to endeavor to peel away his support by means of messaging to them that (i) Trump lied to them and conned them in his election campaign, (ii) Trump's health care and tax cut ideas and actions are the leading examples that show Trump conned his voters in the election, (iii) Trump continues to lie to his voters that his health care and tax cuts are furthering what he promised them in the election campaign, and (iv) the Trump voters need to see that Trump has conned them.

If that messaging can be effectively communicated to the Trump voters, the object is that they will turn on Trump and take it out on Congressional Republicans in the 2018 elections.

The effectiveness of this approach can be increased by making Congressional Republicans aware that the messaging is going on. The Congressional Republicans are complicit in Trump's lying about his health care proposal and tax cuts plan. The longer they are complicit, the greater the retribution will potentially be against them next November.

I am trying to do the foregoing messaging in the Alabama 6th Congressional district where I live. See Gary Palmer review. I am doing my messaging by means of my blog and a lot of direct tweeting to voters in my district. I am interested in other people helping me out in the messaging I am trying to do.

If others around the country think what I am doing is a good idea, I hope they will find ways to do the same where they live.

Sunday, December 10, 2017

Out of stater tweet

[revised 9/14/20]

Dear Alabama voter:

Please forgive me as an out of stater tweeting to you about your Senate election.

I am doing so because I consider myself a middle of the roader who is distraught by the extreme polarization and hyperpartisanship that is impairing the decent functioning of Congress and our government for the American people.

In all honesty, I think Donald Trump is horrendously divisive for the country, and for Tommy Tuberville to be elected as Senator from Alabama would only add to the culture war that is tearing the country apart.

I have no idea about your political beliefs, and I am sure there is much you and I would disagree about. I only wish for us and for our Congress to do a better job in working together to try to solve the country's huge problems.

For that I reason, I think keeping Doug Jones as Senator from Alabama would be much better for Alabama, for the country, and for you and me.

I hope you will vote for Doug Jones.

Sincerely
THE OUT OF STATER who tweeted to you a link to this webpage

Friday, December 8, 2017

Trump Pensacola rally

[Update 12/9: While yesterday I received upwards of a 100 retweets and likes of this, I am not aware that anyone actually did tweeting. This blog entry and Blanketing AL twitter accounts strongly urge massive direct tweeting to AL voters and set out how to do it duing the next three days for anyone who is motivated to do the same.]

Trump's Pensacola rally today should be a trigger for sending #Tweets2ALVoters4DougJones this weekend.

Who wants to send #Tweets2ALVoters4DougJones while Trump rallies in Pensacola? https://t.co/r2JqCtSQRW #DougJonesForSenate #digdoug
— Rob Shattuck (@RobShattuckAL06) December 8, 2017

For guidance on how to send #Tweets2ALVoters4DougJones this weekend, please see Blanketing AL twitter accounts.

What you basically need to do is find an Alabama Twitter account with followers you want to send tweets to, compose a tweet message you wish to send to those followers, and start tweeting.

Blanketing AL twitter accounts gives instructions about how to tweet efficiently on a laptop. I don't use a cellphone to send tweets, so I don't know how efficiently it can be done on a cellphone.

Perhaps what Trump has tweeted about the rally will inspire you on what you want to tweet in your #Tweets2ALVoters4DougJones.

Big crowd expected today in Pensacola, Florida, for a Make America Great Again speech. We have done so much in so short a period of time...and yet are planning to do so much more! See you there!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 8, 2017

If you want to send #Tweets2ALVoters4DougJones, tell me where you live and I will help you find an Alabama Twitter account follower list to send tweets to.

Monday, December 4, 2017

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.

Questions, comments, discussion
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