Bernie Sanders Tweet Brigade TODAY at 6:30 pm est

[merrily]

http://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/36tvgm/monday_at_630_est_there_will_be_a_tweet_brigade/

This is a great reddit post.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. I only just created a twitter account, so I'm a little unclear on how it all works.

I don't even have a first tweet, although I did follow Bernie and Warren already.

Does it only work if you tweet the exact same words, letter for letter, or as long as you're tweeting basically the same sentences it's ok?

[hootinholler]

2. IT's kind of hard to explain but I'll try

It's not that I'm all Twitter literate but here goes.

There are two basic things, the @ and the #

The @: This is what you use when you are replying or sending a tweet to someone specific, it appears on their feed. @BernieSanders I don't think that capitalization matters.

The #: This is what you use to denote a subject. It's kind of like identifying a keyword. These are what drives the trending list. #FeelTheBern is one popular one for posts about Bernie. Hashtags are arbitrary and include everything from the hash itself through the next space. If you search a hashtag you'll get a list of all the tweets that contain it.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

3. Actually, I think I remembered that part.

What I was asking was if the idea is simply to flood those addresses with pro-Bernie sentiments, or if there is some counting mechanism that lets them know that, for instance they got 36000 of the exact same tweet.

[merrily]

6. Sorry. I don't know anything about mechanisms of that kind.

[LiberalElite]

4. Twitter mystifies me too -

i've had an account for some time and have yet to tweet a thing.

[smokey nj]

7. I mostly just retweet.

[Wilms]

5. thanks n/t