Purpose; method

This blog is a platform for Alabama #gunsense supporters to use Twitter in an organized way to purvey #gunsense messaging to Alabama voters by means of direct tweeting to the voters,

The goal is to generate impactful grassroots support for #gunsense that will be noticed by Governor Ivey and the Alabama legislature.

This platform will set out tweets to be sent directly to Twitter accounts of Alabamians. The tweets will have links to entries in this blog that will give information about this tweeting effort and solicit recipients of the tweets to join in the tweeting so that a "pyramiding" of tweets to reach more Alabamians will result. The blog entries that the tweets link to will use various #gunsense argumentation and supporting information.

A key to success is for the tweets to be worded in a way that induces recipients to click on the link in the tweet.

This effort may be organized geographically. Twitter accounts to send tweets to will be found by tweeters using follower lists of Twitter accounts in the tweeter's area that have a lot of followers.  Examples of Twitter follower lists that might be used for the Huntsville, Birmingham, Montgomery, and Mobile areas are:
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

To get a concrete sense of how this will work, look at Tweeting for #gunsense blog entry.

Also, read the below instructions about how to do your tweeting.


HOW TO DO 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]

1/19/24 email to Lisa Hendricks
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: Lisa Hendricks, Moms Demand Action <grassrootssocialmedia@everytown.org>
Cc: Moms Demand Action Alabama <alabama@momschapterleaders.org>; Dana Ellis <danaellis865@gmail.com>; Melissa Bailey <melissa.bailey.al@gmail.com>; Lisa Burgess <lisaburgess.al@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2024 at 11:58:52 AM CST
Subject: Re: Let’s talk, Rob!
Dear Lisa,
I am replying by email rather the survey, because I wish to describe a particular digital campaign tool that I conceived of in 2016 but was never able to get utilized.
This tool in question ("organized direct tweeting") is described at Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Organized, direct tweeting campaign tool (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com).
In 2019 I went so far as to create a skeleton platform for using the tool regarding guns. This skeleton platform can be found at Alabamians Tweeting for #Gunsense: Purpose; method (al4gunsense.blogspot.com)
Use of the tool requires Moms Demand volunteers who are willing to spend time sending individual tweets to individual Twitter accounts. This kind of volunteer activity may be hard to come by.
I believe texting has been developed as a campaign tool, and that could be something of a prototype for the organized direct tweeting tool.
I never could get anyone to try out the campaign tool.
I still consider the tool worth a try.
I would be happy to talk about the tool with your national Grassroots Digital Advocacy group and/or with Alabama Moms Demand representatives. Just let me know.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck