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
Warning to White House: Don’t light me off!
The challenge is laid down. Let’s see if the gutless coward is willing to pick up the dropped glove after the slap across the face.
Fun with Progs and Journalist-Larvae:
I’ve been called a “Colossal Asshole” and a Conspiracy Theorist today. 😀 Well…that’s a good day’s work.
The guy who called me a conspiracy theorist was a “hit n’ run” Tweeter who blocked me as soon as I came up with a government minutes page on C-31.
My responses to him:
I have also taken the time and effort to acknowledge @GenXtremist’s contributions to my Twitter profile. I appreciate his contribution greatly. 😀
“Rabid CANADIAN Patriot & Colossal Asshole, Vancouver Canucks Fan & an avid landscape/wildlife photographer. What’s this camera & what the hell do I do with it?”
@The_Animal
While I have not gone so far yet as the words you use I do agree with the sentiment expressed.
In regards to the Twitter Rally this Wednesday @ 10 a.m. EST, I’ll be there via Tweetdeck as it will be 2 a.m. AEST – Australian Eastern Standard Time – so I’ll be asleep. Tweetdeck lets you schedule tweets. I scheduled one today at 10 a.m. EST. So anyone on the other side of the world may participate in the Rally.
What is nice about Tweetdeck.com is that there is no additional password. I have my Twitter password remembered by a browser. Within that browser I navigate to tweetdeck.com and click on login using my Twitter logon. Est voila! Then quite quick to schedule a tweet. Next time the page is visited it comes up automatically.
“While I have not gone so far yet as the words you use I do agree with the sentiment expressed.”
Thanks, JC. I tend to speak my mind – no sense in sugarcoating it. And for some homelanders and journalists and their hanger-ons. I have no compunction about going “fangs-out”.
@wisecroneknows has provided some twitter addresses for targetting:
Maybe for starters: (PRIMARY) @RepKevinBrady @SpeakerRyan @RonWyden @WaysMeansCmte @WaysandMeansGOP @RepLloydDoggett @SenSchumer @NancyPelosi @SenateFinance @stevenmnuchin1 @RepRichardNeal
(Secondary) @JustinTrudeau @Bill_Morneau @TurnbullMalcolm
@60Minutes @greta @oreillyfactor @chucktodd @JoeNBC @FoxNewsSunday
I am thinking now this will be my primary as I need space for a message:
@RepKevinBrady @SpeakerRyan @RonWyden @WaysMeansCmte
This will be my secondary at 10.30 am, I want to use that Trudeau/Obama picture “A Canadian is a Canadian is a Candian”
@JustinTrudeau @Bill_Morneau @DiLebouthillier
I’ll throw an Australian one in to try and take advantage of the heightened retweeting /liking activity.
Great JC, will be there on Wed AM and thank you for organizing this. I will put my thinking cap on.
So I’m planning to keep it very simple and clear tomorrow on Twitter:
TRUMP DUMP #FATCA!
I figure if we all include one thing loud and clear it’s got a better chance
@John Smith – sounds good.
I have a few tweets scheduled via Tweetdeck. for the Twitter Rally against CBT & #FATCA.
10 am Wednesday EST
I consider this tweet today (as part of the Twitter Rally Against CBT and #FATCA) a masterpiece:
https://twitter.com/JohnXHanson/status/821779598040039425
This was my lead tweet today at 10 a.m:
https://twitter.com/JCDoubleTaxed/status/821733890230513665
Schumer:
https://twitter.com/JCDoubleTaxed/status/821735150383939588
Justin Trudeau
https://twitter.com/JCDoubleTaxed/status/821745220215771136
https://twitter.com/JCDoubleTaxed/status/821764106613063680
Australian Government:
https://twitter.com/JCDoubleTaxed/status/821809402772475904
Nice twitstorm on #fatca today. Sorry I couldn’t join in the fray but I did tune in. Next Wednesday, same time (10:00am EST), I hope there will be even more anti-FATCA (CBT too) twittering. Thanks to the idea man and all the clever tweeties who came up with such creative tweets. I noticed some compliance condors managed to slip in but they were a daft minority.
I think the only way to get rid of condors and other vultures is with a shotgun tweet to their ass.
Another one for the Canadian Government.
https://twitter.com/JCDoubleTaxed/status/821869296145952768
The relevance of that picture is about to expire. Next week more focus on U.S.
@Everyone. Twitter Rally tomorrow Wednesday @ 10 a.m. EST against #cbtax and #FATCA.
Use #FATCA hashtag in your tweets.
Search for #FATCA in twitter.
Go to “LATEST” and retweet and like there, not just on the “TOP” page.
Tweeters;
I like your use of the #citizide term to characterize the stark choices that US extraterritorial CBT/FATCA/FBAR has forced on those outside the US – forced to surrender their US legal birthright in order to merely bank normally in their home country (ex. Canada, UK, etc.) – ordinary people and families holding legal, local, post tax accounts and mortgages, saving for retirement, for disability, for education – already under layers of legal jurisdiction and supervision of the country they ACTUALLY live, work and save in.
The FATCA Twitter Rally this past Wednesday was bigger that last week, with tweets staying in key target “TOP” pages for the day. (Of course @RealDonaldTrump is too popular for our numbers thus far).
Thanks @PatriciaMoon for joining in.
It is kind of like starting a “Mexican Wave” at a football stadium. I never was part of starting that yet I imagine it takes a number of attempts before it takes off.
Another hashtag coming up: #cbtax
Greta Van Susteren @greta Anchor: FOR THE RECORD on MSNBC at 6pm eastern; has been a target the last two days as @SpeakerRyan was a guest yesterday, and @RepMarkMeadows today.
I have a plan to call related groups against FATCA and CBT to join in this coming week Wednesday at 10 a.m. (in reality the Rally started a few hours before and through 8 hours after). I figure about 10 groups focusing on U.S. persons overseas including DA and ACA. I’ll also try and draw in @CitizenshipTax into the fray.
Through Twitter we learned of ongoing opposition to FATCA in Trinidad & Tobago: https://twitter.com/khamal/status/824398319271247872
https://twitter.com/JCDoubleTaxed/status/824678300303945728
TWITTER RALLY – tomorrow – February 1st – 10:00 am EST!
Copying comments made by DoD and rally organiser JC on another thread:
@JC,
I sent you an e-mail but it bounced (not sure why, your address looks good), so I’ll post it:
Thanks for coming up with the idea and coordinating the weekly Twitter rally. Wanted to let you know we put a reminder and link, updating weekly, for it in sidebar and on the ongoing projects page (also in sidebar).
@pacifica777 thanks. I’ll check the e-mail.
Guys, as I do not do social media….only lurk.
I found that I can google hashtag fatca and it lists a bunch of twitter tweats. Is that what you guys are doing at least what I am reading?
Good #fatca tweeting today … loved the wall theme. Mr. Trump, tear down this wall (built by Obama)!
@EmBee – you are, I was so much involved I did not seem to notice all the wall images. I started listing them below, and listing, and it kept going:
https://twitter.com/wisecroneknows/status/826948212506365957
https://twitter.com/FedupUSExpat/status/826817464717701120
https://twitter.com/zuludogm/status/826811093867565056
https://twitter.com/zuludogm/status/826821165683445760
https://twitter.com/zuludogm/status/826816653354815488
https://twitter.com/cneitzert/status/826811950147465216
https://twitter.com/FedupUSExpat/status/826853936548237316
https://twitter.com/FedupUSExpat/status/826837772010921984
https://twitter.com/JohnXHanson/status/826828742098051073
https://twitter.com/FedupUSExpat/status/826812432773500928
https://twitter.com/zuludogm/status/826821165683445760
https://twitter.com/JCDoubleTaxed/status/826807325595955200
https://twitter.com/FedupUSExpat/status/826791000047808512
This older article showed up well in Twitter:
https://twitter.com/JCDoubleTaxed/status/826923158552711168