There is a call for a twitter storm tomorrow coming from many countries.
The time is set at 12:00 CET and the new hashtag will be announced at
10:00.
Please add your twitter accounts in this pad, so we can follow and retweet.
https://titanpad.com/r5CGYwiLS8
Bellow you will find a guide for the action. Share and care as always.
In solidarity, Kat
TWITTER ACTION + TWITTER GUIDE [[https://titanpad.com/tGy04dD1ZS]]
Be ready for a big collective twitter action.
Our collective twitter activity will greatly support our message#
SafePassage
<https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/safepassage?source=feed_text>,
and our mobilizations on the 27th of February - especially if we are able
to produce an international trending topic.
In order to do that, we need as many organizing teams and demo-participants
as possible to participate in the twitter storm on Tuesday the 23nd at
12.00 CET. This requires timing and a concerted effort to retweet messages
with our chosen hashtag.
Apart from #SafePassage we will launch a new hashtag. For algorithmic
reasons it is easier to create a trending topic around a new hashtag. We
will announce this hashtag on this pad closer to the launch - since it is
important that no one uses the hashtag before the agreed upon time.
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QUICK GUIDE TO PARTICIPATING IN A TWITTER STORM:
Preparation:
1. Gather a group of 10-15 people committed to making the twitter storm
happen. They have to be ready to tweet like crazy for 2-3 hours at the
agreed time.
2. Make an invitation, that explains the message of our hashtag and invites
people to participate in sharing the message on twitter. We will make a
template in English that you can translate and adapt according to your
context.
3. Prepare a list of tweets, images and memes. This will give you plenty of
ammunition for the crucial beginning of the storm, and give others quality
tweets to share. Remember that tweets with images tend to be shared much
more.
4. Make a list of the twitter accounts of people in your group, as well
as sympathetic influencers, journalists and celebrities.
5. Make a list of related hashtags, from which you can draw in people to
the #SafePassage hashtag.
Action
1. When the twitter storm begins, post the invitation on facebook with
an image, and ask people to share it and to participate on twitter.
2. Start tweeting out your prepared tweets, and retweeting each other
like crazy.
3. Retweet the tweets of friends and allies, and promt sympathetic
influencers, journalists and celebrities to state their opinions and
retweet your message. Also – if you feel confident – call out politicians
and known people to make a stand, and create controversy by attacking
accounts of people who are apologists for a deadly passage.
4. Combine #SafePassage with one or max two other relevant hashtag in
your tweets. By doing this you promote #SafePassage among people
following the other hashtags.
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BASIC TWITTER GUIDE
If we want to increment our social media power, we need to build the
capacity for collective action on twitter.
To do that, as many of us as possible need to be on twitter, active, and to
follow each other. Here is a draft guide to joining twitter.
(If you're in doubt about what following, hashtags, tagging and retweeting
are, here's twitter's own guide to getting started:
https://support.twitter.com/articles/215585
<https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.twitter.com%2Farticles%2F215585&h=vAQEhYCIVAQHMFo-oJNQ6ukg_JcdLYW773UpSBpVwlp_-aw&enc=AZPL6LGEHa9g1yYrr_D4vm36WP5IRw9Duzohha-ghwnU63HEuoTSqfIeY1choJIEOn2S_OeHarwrVmvIPspDeIwDOXMhozoj37B9N8suRKoKdnd8UDamn93Riv5ODjtTjTMQbmX6vrF6bfqlGL-uhtukekVQNlSGgyxtl1jPic8QOA&s=1>
and
here are a collection of YouTube tutorials:
http://mashable.com/2009/05/31/twitter-tutorials-youtube/
<http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2009%2F05%2F31%2Ftwitter-tutorials-youtube%2F&h=yAQH5165pAQErrZrrNFRbf1T9tvKQjxPzxOqzmaayy0KcLQ&enc=AZPzOasnjSv_P6O66aK60rpN8B32SsePmXYI8OHhCa_2SQeQVPoZ0-IZRlLe3fF3SdlETcH7TKi32Wa3Az8XrT4Dmg3bMoqaPjR0vbvwv23a6AvtQN0x-AdagfcOtEhhD3n1OjLFOdlzXo5fyg_0p1nLbtgkmRErS0T07kf0EoTQpg&s=1>
)
1. Joining
Open an account, with discription, image, etc.
Choose a short name.
Follow your friends on twitter.
Follow the coolest people your friends follow. Start your twitter career by
following 200-300 accounts. Otherwise you don't get enough interesting
material to react to - if you follow many it becomes much easier to be
social on twitter.
Unfollow accoutns that post a lot of irrelevant stuff - you don't want
your feed to get clogged.
2. Getting followers
Tell people on facebook that you are on twitter -- remember to tag
active twitter friends in your post -- otherwise the FB-algorithm might
hide it.
Get your friends to welcome you to twitter with tweets.
Be active - especially under hashtags that have people's attention.
If you write articles: ask the editors to publish your twitter name with
your author's bio.
3. Tweeting
Twitter is more social, less personal than facebook. It doesn't care
about your day or your meal.
Twitter likes three things: 1. FACTS/ANALYSIS, 2. HUMOUR, 3. AFFECT
(especially anger) - without any of these a tweet will fail, and with
only one of these it will likely fail as well.
Analysis and facts must be "sharp": have edge and relate to a topic that
is being discussed. To be first with a sharp fact (like the result of an
exit-poll or a quote from a Tsipras speech) can give you lots of retweets -
if it's on a topic that already has some attention. Humour without analysis
- like a simple joke - doesn't go far. And anger without humour doesn't
fare well. (These observations are based on anglophone twitter). Here's
an example of someone who does analysis and humour, with a very
particular affect, very well: @NeinQuarterly
Tweets with images are much more likely to be retweeted than those without.
Be to the point: There can be only one in the space of a tweet. And put
the subject of the sentence up front.
Play around, experiment.
If you reply to someone's tweet, the tweet will start with this persons
account: @PersonX. This is taken to be a conversation and can only be
read by those that follows the two of you both --- unless you put a
full-stop/period in from of the persons name: .@PersonX
Don't overdo the number of hashtags.
4. Use tweetdeck!
To be truly active on twitter, use: tweetdeck.twitter.com/
<http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftweetdeck.twitter.com%2F&h=uAQH7fZljAQEtspSIlXpUCYdYj3K3xKln8Cu7tTYu-nOo2Q&enc=AZPkFB190w7kuBab2-OQVaAFS56Zf3kl2KuTe7sUK5jU2npJACMeepo36p-B_zT-EhqW-tB0avCppyZ0uMNsZKsObMghrTMCthqmYi2MZnxZNz9Z444io8xNI8R5B3yZemGZtKhfW3xMLLnlOJoZeIsACO1Zxkom00CDCXi1tjQQpg&s=1>
Tweetdeck allows you to:
- to manage several accounts at once;
- to follow several hashtags at once
- to retweet very fast and effectively.
-- and much more
5. How "going viral" works
A hashtag or meme "goes viral" once it gets a life of its own, becoming
taken up, adapted and deployed by others. It draws attention and
response from across social media, and often traditional media too.
For something to go viral usually requires two things:
the involvement of what network theorists call hyper-connected
"super-nodes" with lots of friends and followers
the so-called "power of weak ties".
Networks are mostly dominated by "strong ties": dense webs of
connections that mean you, your friends and your political allies all
tend to be in touch with one another. This is why, to many people, their
social media networks often feel like echo-chambers, sometimes giving a
skewed impression of "public opinion". Weak ties, however, are
connections to those outside your primary network: old school friends
you've mostly lost contact with, someone you just met once at a club,
and so on. These ties allow access to new networks, enabling tweets,
hashtags and memes to travel further, potentially being taken up,
adapted and deployed by groups of people barely known to you and your
friends or allies.
So try to follow super-nodes in the hope they will also follow you in
return (super-nodes are often likely to have numerous weak ties of their
own to different networks) as well as acquaintances outside, or on the
edges, of your immediate milieu too.
