The following is posted by me (calgary411) on behalf of its author, JCDoubleTaxed:
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Most people do not have a twitter account. Twitter users tend to be politicians, press, opinion leaders, and celebrities. Joining Twitter will be a perfect New Year’s Resolution. It is easy and once accomplished you may enjoy the gratification of a resolution accomplished.
I shared the plan for this post with @wisecroneknows who commented:
“Just posting comments on IBS/FB isn’t screaming at the world to fix this…. they should not be frightened…. legislation is being drawn up now… shouldn’t wait for the inauguration. Even if they don’t actually tweet they can just simply like and RT. (AND…If I can do it anyone can).”
Twitter allows account names different from your real name. You might choose a Twitter name and profile picture related to highlighting the injustices of CBT and FATCA.
Twitter should be viewed as part of a range of means to communicate with politicians, press, opinion leaders and other US Persons overseas. Twitter is also useful for early notice on articles related to CBT so as to better get in early on comment sections.
On Twitter, hasthtag “#FATCA” is popular among Brockers. If you are new to Twitter you might search #FATCA to see what others are tweeting. People include hashtags when they want to send a tweet to a topic that others search for, such as #FATCA.
Addresses are included to send a tweet to particular people or groups. For example, a tweet with @SenWarren @RonWyden @SenSchumer will send the tweet to these three.
Some question if people really read tweets to them. Some politicians have staff manage their tweets for them. Some get so many tweets that “cut through” is a very slight possibility. So if one tweets @POTUS, for example, they may also include a hashtag or another address to increase the possibilities of getting noticed.
If you like what someone is tweeting then click on their address in a tweet and click follow. Their tweets will then show on your Twitter Home page. You might search a Twitter address for tweets to “retweet” (RT). Retweeting, or clicking on the arrows icon at the bottom of a tweet, is the same as sending the tweet from your account. Clicking on the heart icon or “liking” a tweet boosts the tweet further, as does both retweeting and liking other tweets and your own tweets. If two Twitter users follow each other they may send private messages to each other.
When others retweet or like a Tweet then this helps the tweets stay noticeable longer. Usually the more retweets and likes in the shortest time frame the better. Based on this information, we might create an amplified voice if we gathered at a particular day and time each week for tweeting about CBT injustices. How about:
each Wednesday @ 10 a.m., or earlier that day, (Ottawa/Washington D.C./ EST) from Wednesday 18 January. A program called TweetDeck may be used to schedule tweets.
If you search for a person or organisation then the first page that shows is the tweets, retweets, and likes by that person/organisation. Search again on that page and a “Top” tab and page appears of the most popular tweets to that person/organisation. The “Latest” tab and page is the most recent tweets to that person/organisation and those tweets with relatively fewer retweets/likes.
Good news is that for the hashtag #FATCA those in opposition to FATCA are crowding out the compliance organisations and those favouring FATCA. Usually the #FATCA “Top” page is full of tweets in opposition to FATCA and tweets against CBT that include “#FATCA.” Anyone wanting to use Twitter to do some research on #FATCA will mainly see tweets from US persons overseas in opposition to FATCA/CBT.
While Twitter only allows 140 characters there are a few tricks to expand on your message and give your tweet more impact. You may include in your tweet the URL of a news article and then such a tweet usually highlights a picture from that article and a snippet of what the article is about. Tweeting a jpg picture that you have added text to can amplify your message (I use the free software Gimp for that). An easier way is to use Word to type a message, and bold and enlarge it, then use a screen capture tool to draw a rectangle around your message and cut it into a jpg that may be attached to your tweet as a photo.
You may create your own collection of twitter images and urls of articles that you may tweet in future. You may click on a twitter image you like in a tweet and drag the picture to your desktop while holding down the mouse button.
More Brockers on Twitter and tweeting will mean greater highlighting of CBT injustices.
Don’t forget an important objective is to grow our community. Include urls of Isaac Brock Society posts, CitizenshipTaxation.ca posts, and related Facebook Groups in tweets and comments on articles.
Happy New Years!
@JCDoubleTaxed
New post (and New Year’s wishes) authored by JCDoubleTaxed:
https://isaacbrocksociety.ca/2016/12/20/your-next-new-years-resolution-join-twitter-to-help-highlight-cbt-injustices/
Thanks a bunch calgary411.
Great Idea JC, thank you. We have to use this potential window of opportunity to yell and scream at anyone that can possibly help change or bring attention to this mess. The RNC promised, we have to hold them to it.
See you on the 18th in the twittersphere!
I’m in. I just need a reminder.
I already am.
Some of mine: Photog_Animal @WildlifeFotog70
Jul 1 As a CDN; @JustinTrudeau , I don’t appreciate the IRS snooping into my accts bc you can’t stand up 4 the Charter. #FATCA
Jul 5 Americans have invaded Canada twice, in 1775 and 1812. They lost both times. Happy 4th of July, motherfuckers!
Jun 28
Photog_Animal Retweeted Casey Tolan
Isn’t that fucking great? And who’s supposed to pay for that? Expats?!!! #FATCA.
Photog_Animal added,
Casey Tolan @caseytolan
The Obama administration is expanding Pell Grants to help 12,000 prisoners get college degrees: http://fusion.net/story/318547/obama-prison-job-pell-grants/ …
0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
May 28 Americans ceded from GB bc of #ExtraterritorialTaxation now they #extraterritorialtax US expats with #CBT #FATCA & #FBAR. #Hypocrites #Irony
May 28 #ThankYouStephenHarper By your actions melding
(continued tweet)
JC, Can you edit some of my prolific “venomous” Twitter posts… I’m sure you can find a lot of them at my Twitter account. @WildlifeFotog70. Somehow I wasn’t aware that Brock’s website could take the Embed code for Twitter.
I have three twitter handles – you’ll find my FATCA and CBT related tweets on @FixTheTaxTreaty
@The_Animal1970 I don’t have admin rights here or on Twitter. The feature before this one has an embedded post from Twitter. If you click on the three dots below a tweet and select embed tweet,Twitter gives you some code to put on a website; yet this only works on IBS, I believe, if one has admin rights here. Otherwise one may post a link to a tweet on Brock as part of a comment (click on the three dots below a tweet then select Copy Link to Tweet).
I’ve seen some growth on Twitter in our favor, but more retweets would help to make a greater impact
Also please go and have a loon at Gab where’ll you find a sympathetic ear. The hashtag #FATCA is also used there. Go to http://www.gab.ai. I’m there at @Abyssus
Please everyone join Twitter and make us noticed. This is a good way to reach Senators, Congressman and other politicians.
I also think US citizens living abroad should stop swallowing this injustices and make us noticeable to the media/politicians. Perhaps organising a movement and staging protests near US embassies in major cities like London, Paris, Mexico City, Toronto, etc against FATCA and CBT can actually attract attention of the diplomats, politicians, media and maybe the new administration.
Twitter has recently released a “live broadcast” feature similar to what Facebook has.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/14/13942840/twitter-live-video-periscope-integration
It is actually quite easy to use. This could be an enhancement to regular tweets. In other words, every Twitter use who has the Twitter app on an Iphone or Android can have their own broadcasts.
@USCA
not sure I get this…..you mean you make a Tweet and then can comment on/about it on a video?
No, you can actually do a live broadcast through twitter and people can see it live on twitter while you are broadcasting. It’s like having your own TV channel.
Rocco Galati December 7th court update
The Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform (COMER) has just announced that their Bank of Canada lawsuit, argued by renowned constitutional lawyer Rocco Galati, is now headed to the Supreme Court of Canada.
COMER’s Herb Wiseman announced on Tuesday, Dec. 20, that “COMER has made an application to appeal to the Supreme Court because the [lower court] Justices denied our latest submission [on Dec. 7]. If they had agreed, the government would have taken us to the Supreme Court. We were headed there on way or another.” https://watershedsentinel.ca/articles/comer-lawsuit-proceed-supreme-court-canada/
“Belling the cat”?
I thought there would be some dissipating of Twitter activity toward Christmas. Lots of activity overnight!
One action I did:searched @wisecroneknows and retweeted and liked lots of tweets. Some:
https://twitter.com/wisecroneknows/status/811733033766227968
https://twitter.com/wisecroneknows/status/811967868770381824
https://twitter.com/wisecroneknows/status/811968775243317248
https://twitter.com/wisecroneknows/status/811942547719356416
https://twitter.com/wisecroneknows/status/811941084439965696
@USCA is right! Doing these Periscope broadcasts is really really easy and something we need to do.
I deleted the first one bc I didn’t like it.
You do it on your phone.
open the Twitter app. (you don’t even have to have downloaded the Periscope app).
make the camera as if you were taking a selfie and hit the tweet icon
then you are “live”
your msg is recorded-make sure you know where to make it stop (why I deleted mine-too silly-looking)
then it posts it on your twitter account
and can be spread where via link.
if we follow each other in that way, there is notice of someone going “live”
still taking time to get the hang of getting the thing off/on properly
but here is a rough example of what we can do
also, it doesn’t seem to work clicking on the arrow but does if you click periscope underneath the photo
@Sid
Thanks for the update on this. Much respect and admiration for Rocco Galati. He has got guts.
I suspect we are headed on a similar pathway……
@JC
done
Trending Hashtag #ObamaFarewell. Get on there… Brockers and give him a once over going out the door.