Yeah, 

One of the DCM candidates had the idea of attempting to convince Twitter to let us very cheaply ($1) or freely use the "sponsored tweet" targeting on Twitter if we did it only for our followers. I have absolutely no idea if that's a possibility in the Twitter system (when I chatted about it with a colleague there they were unsure but didn't know enough about the backend of the system. They mostly weren't sure how easy it would be to build in as a follower only option.) but it's certainly an interesting idea (and even if it does nothing other then encourage them to have regular targeting as an option like facebook does for some accounts it's unlikely to hurt us to ask :) ).

James Alexander
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Trust & Safety
Wikimedia Foundation
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On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 9:09 PM, Tilman Bayer <tbayer@wikimedia.org> wrote:
I agree with that too ;) I thought that James had instead been
referring to the tweets that had been proposed in the initial email.
(As an aside, Twitter actually offers geotargeting...... for sponsored
tweets: https://business.twitter.com/help/geo-gender-and-language-targeting
. Yes, gender-targeting too.)

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 8:51 PM, Ed Erhart <eerhart@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> In support of Michael here... with Facebook's geotargeting mechanism, we can
> target specific audiences and use some of these industry best practices
> where beneficial. I'd agree that time zones would be a bad idea for Twitter,
> but Facebook is different.
>
> --Ed
>
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Michael Guss <mguss@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> Haha Thank you James : )
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 3:39 PM, James Alexander
>> <jalexander@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Michael Guss <mguss@wikimedia.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I think it'll just be succinct something along the lines of "Check your
>>>> local listings."
>>>
>>>
>>> oh NOW this decides to come through after I've mailed that ;) I think
>>> this works. Another option (with or without that):
>>>
>>> New Vietnam doc (@LatinosVietnam) featuring Wikipedian Antonio Santiago
>>> premieres TONIGHT in the US on @PBS: http://buff.ly/1gKGPGz
>>>
>>>
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