Posts by DT

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Watchtower Lawsuit on Twitter

by purplesofa in

i just checked twitter and the story is picking up tremendously there.. many people only get their news from twitter now.. i encourage you to use twitter, you can do this anonymously.. rt (return the stories) get familiar with twitter if you are not already.. it's a wonderful format for spreading the news.. many activist will see this and spread the story that have many followers.... the time to do this is now, before the story gets too old.

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purps.

DT

I wanted to point out that you can set up rss feeds to post automatically to your Twitter account. This could be a great way to post articles from XJW blogs and websites. This isn't suitable for everyone, but it could be pretty helpful for some. Twitterfeed.com and dlvr.it are good services for this. Yahoo Pipes is good for merging and editing RSS feeds.

There are also some easy ways to increase your followers, especially if you don't care who you follow. If you just follow people, many will follow back. You can always unfollow those who don't after a week or so. Twiends.com is a great place to go to get extra followers. You earn credits by following people which are used to reward others for following you. I wouldn't recommend using the paid options. The free option works good by itself.

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Facebook page for Twitter users!!!!

by purplesofa in

i started a fb page hashtags for jw issues.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/194310234028973/.

we can discuss/ suggest strategies for using twitter to our best advantage.

DT

Good idea. I signed up. Twitter is one of the best tools for advertizing news stories like this.

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The Candace Conti Case Is Now In The New York Times!

by DT in

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/us/28-million-awarded-in-jehovahs-witnesses-abuse-case.html?_r=1.

DT

We may want to like and tweet this article so they will be more likely to do a longer follow up article.

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The Candace Conti Case Is Now In The New York Times!

by DT in

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/us/28-million-awarded-in-jehovahs-witnesses-abuse-case.html?_r=1.

DT

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/us/28-million-awarded-in-jehovahs-witnesses-abuse-case.html?_r=1

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For now...all hope has faded

by outsmartthesystem in

jw
friends

my wife asked me if i believe that christ came to power in 1914. sadly this question shows how little she knows even about her own religion as she knows the heart of my problems with the society start with the 607 bc debacle.

obviously no 607 means no 1914. alas....the conversation eventually morphed and it got to the point where i decided to ask her a point blank question.

what would it take to get you to realize that your religion is false?

DT

It's a difficult situation, but you got your wife to admit and verbalize an absurd position. If you give it some time, it may start to bother her.

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Watchtower Lawsuit on Twitter

by purplesofa in

i just checked twitter and the story is picking up tremendously there.. many people only get their news from twitter now.. i encourage you to use twitter, you can do this anonymously.. rt (return the stories) get familiar with twitter if you are not already.. it's a wonderful format for spreading the news.. many activist will see this and spread the story that have many followers.... the time to do this is now, before the story gets too old.

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purps.

DT

It's good that we are talking about this now. We never know when a JW related news story will go viral. It pays to be prepared so we can help it out at short notice.

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WTS pays 7.56 Mil, Congregation 3.64 Mil; Kendrick (perpetrator) 16.8 MIL

by blondie in

jw
friends

the court documents indicate that the $28 million is to come from the following sources;.

kendrick (perpetrator) 60% = $16.8 million.

wtb&ts of ny 27% = $7.56 million.

DT

I believe that was the division percentages of the original $7,000,000 compensatory damages. I thought I heard that the entire $21,000,001 punitive damages was owed by the Watchtower Society.

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Watchtower Lawsuit on Twitter

by purplesofa in

i just checked twitter and the story is picking up tremendously there.. many people only get their news from twitter now.. i encourage you to use twitter, you can do this anonymously.. rt (return the stories) get familiar with twitter if you are not already.. it's a wonderful format for spreading the news.. many activist will see this and spread the story that have many followers.... the time to do this is now, before the story gets too old.

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purps.

DT

I've done some research and it appears that it would be pretty difficult to get an actual trending topic on Twitter. Part of the problem is that you need a lot of different people tweeting about the topic. It's not enough to have a few people tweeting repeatedly.

There is still a lot that we can do by tweeting and retweeting these news stories. One day we might get lucky and have a news item really take off. It's already happening with this latest case. It just hasn't been enough to trend yet.

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I'd hate to be a JW going out in service with all the bad press they're getting right now.

by I quit! in

jw
friends

DT

I would love to hear the conversations among the Witnesses themselves. I'm sure some think that it could be a beginning of persecution against them, so they will want to talk about it. There will be a lot of cognitive dissonance, but it has to be difficult to spin this in a positive way.

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Watchtower Lawsuit on Twitter

by purplesofa in

i just checked twitter and the story is picking up tremendously there.. many people only get their news from twitter now.. i encourage you to use twitter, you can do this anonymously.. rt (return the stories) get familiar with twitter if you are not already.. it's a wonderful format for spreading the news.. many activist will see this and spread the story that have many followers.... the time to do this is now, before the story gets too old.

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purps.

DT

"We should all agree a hash tag. How about #JWscandal ? Then it could really trend."

#JWscandal is a great hashtag. I think #JW is also good for any JW related tweet. It's very short so there will usually be room for other hashtags too.

I think the best phrase for a trending topic would be Jehovah's Witnesses. There are already a lot of tweets with that phrase, so it might be possible to have it show up on Twitter as a trending topic. If it becomes an official trending topic, it could really explode. (I don't know how hard it is to do that, but if we work together it might be possible.) We can still use hashtags along with the phrase Jehovah's Witnesses so that people can click on it and see the other tweets with that hashtag.