Developing a Pro-Cypto Tweet Towards the GOP
One of the things I have seen other communities do well is arm their followers with standard messages that they can email or call to their representatives; erasing the need for every person to think on the spot. This makes it easy for many motivated members of a community to get their coordinated message out and show your politicians what their constituents care about. So how do you craft your tweet.
Step 1 Research.
I would recommend starting broad and going to the party’s website to see what is in their national platform. I am aiming this post at Republicans so I went to the Republican National Party Platform.
I quickly latched onto the “A Competitive America.” Seems like it fights right at home to the Crypto message, specifically the piece that says “private investment is a key driver of economic growth and job creation.” I decided to build upon that message as well as crypto helping keep America the center of the world economy for decades to come against an emerging China.
Step 2 Build Your Message.
Once I knew what I wanted to center my tweet on I started to develop my message. I fairly quickly came up with the following tweet:
@your senator/congressman one point of the National GOP Platform is “a competitive America.” Crypto does this. With China abandoning decentralzed crypto, we stand at a turning point where if America embraces crypto we could see America’s place as an economic superpower cemented for another two decades. I would ask you to help us build crypto through laws informed by those who live and work in the crypto industry and help make America a crypto powerhouse.
I then placed the tweet into Twitter to determine how much I exceeded max character-count. I was 178 characters over. I then had to decide if I wanted to tweet out a single message or multiple. Since I was generating examples I decided to do both and allow others to decide what seemed best. I started to trim everything I could such as making “and” in a “&.” I started to also trim words and phases I did not think were as central to my message. Eventually I ended up with:
@your senator/congressman one point of the GOP Platform is A Competitive USA. With China abandoning decentralized crypto, if we embrace it we could see our place as an economic superpower cemented. Please write laws informed by those who work in crypto & make the US a crypto powerhouse.
It’s not perfect but we all have to start somewhere.
Step 3 What are my Congressmen and Senator’s twitter handles?
My first stop was to Congress’s Find Your Member Website.
I typed in my area code and then my Congressman and Senators appeared along with a link to their websites. Most did not have their Twitter handles on the website so the search continued, but at least I knew their names. Usually I could find them on Twitter by typing “@” and then their names and they usually appeared. Once I had their handles in, I copied and pasted my message and press send. Now my Representatives in Congress know where I stand on crypto and why.
Note: I’m not aligned with either political party.