{"id":412,"date":"2009-03-18T08:32:58","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T15:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=412"},"modified":"2009-03-18T08:32:58","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T15:32:58","slug":"how-to-promote-ask-the-president-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2009\/03\/18\/how-to-promote-ask-the-president-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"How to promote “Ask the President” on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ask<\/a><\/p>\n

Ask the President<\/strong>‘s site is up and running<\/a>!\u00c2\u00a0 The idea’s simple: people can submit questions and vote on which ones they’d like to see answered at a White House press conference.\u00c2\u00a0 Ari Melber’s The People’s Press Conference<\/a> in The Nation <\/em>has details; other partners include the Washington Times <\/em>and Personal Democracy Forum<\/em>.<\/p>\n

If you think it’s a good idea, here are a few ways you can hep get the word out on Twitter.<\/p>\n


\n1. Tweet about it the site going live — and include its URL<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 For example:<\/p>\n

@AskThePresident is live!\u00c2\u00a0 Could be the biggest thing since sliced bread!!!!!! <\/em>http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/askpres<\/a> <\/strong>#askpres
\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If this looks like gibberish (my friends often say it looks like I’m tweeting in tongues), the tinyurl is a short version of the site name, and the #askpres at the end is a hashtag to make it easy to see all the tweets about Ask the President<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

2. Tweet about questions you like — and include a link.<\/strong> For example:<\/p>\n

Mr President, How will you follow through on your promise to help the people of Darfur? <\/em>http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/askpres<\/a> #askthepres<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The easiest way to do this is to click on the Retweet This<\/strong> button on each question.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a little hard to see — almost at the bottom of the question, right below the “share this” — but well worth finding.\u00c2\u00a0 It brings up a tab with Twitter’s hope page, the shortened URL, and the hashtag; you’ll have to provide the rest of the text.<\/p>\n

Also consider including other hashtags you think might be interested: #tcot for conservatives, #topprog for progressives, #gov20 for “government 2.0”, #green for sustainability-related questions, and so on.<\/p>\n

3. Recommend @AskThePresident on #followfriday<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 If you’re not already participating in #followfriday, it’s just what it sounds like: every Friday, people on Twitter send tweets suggesting who they think others should follow.*\u00c2\u00a0 Join in!\u00c2\u00a0 For example,<\/p>\n

#followfriday: @AskThePresident and #askpres for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The People\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Press Conference\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span> http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/askpres<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

@BarackObama: please add @AskThePresident to your #followfriday list! #askpres<\/span><\/em>
\n<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

4. When you see others tweeting about #askpres, retweet liberally — or conservatively, depending on your politics \ud83d\ude42 <\/strong>And if you’re wirting or blogging about it, make sure to include the #askpres tag when you tweet.<\/p>\n

Other suggestions? Please leave them in the comments!<\/p>\n

Thanks!<\/p>\n

jon<\/p>\n

PS: For more about the thinking behind these recommendations, please see Launching \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ask The President\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on Twitter<\/a>. Thanks to everybody who gave feedback on that post!<\/p>\n

* Micah Baldwin’s #FollowFriday: The anatomy of a trend <\/a>on Mashable<\/em> has more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ask The President is launching Thursday, March 19. You can help promote it by tweeting about the site once its live, retweeting any links about it, using Twitter to ask people to vote for any questions you submit, and . And if you see other people tweeting about it, please retweet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,16],"tags":[25,35,258,378],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","category-social-computing","category-tales-from-the-net","tag-activism","tag-ask-the-president","tag-p2","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}