Hey Guys,
My name is Tatiana, and I’m a mentor on Team 614 – The Night Hawks. Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of volunteer work – educating people on the urgency of the situation in Ukraine. Back in January, a person that I’ve been working with on this cause came up with the idea of having a “twitter storm” to promote interest --to get the word out there. By definition, a “twitter storm” is the following:
“A Twitterstorm is a sudden spike in activity surrounding a certain topic on the Twitter social media site.”
Anyway, we managed to get so many people involved in tweeting and re-tweeting about Ukraine, under the hashtag “#euromaidan”, that the topic began to trend (“trending topics become popular either through a concerted effort by users, or because of an event that prompts people to talk about one specific topic. These topics help Twitter and their users to understand what is happening in the world”).
What I mean to say, to cut to the chase here, is that I propose we organize an FRC twitter storm. I’m not sure if it’s ever been done before, but FRC is such a fantastic program – and one that not enough people are aware of. We have such a huge community, I think it’d be so easy for us to do. And, given the fact that we have competitions going on and streaming right now, I think it’d be great if we could somehow direct interest towards that.
I think the best time to plan to do it would be sometime before or around when competition rounds get started, so Friday morning for most regional competitions (maybe 9:30, 10?). I think utilizing the hashtag #omgrobots would be best, too (but we could also do #firstrobotics).
Let me know what you guys think – terrible idea, or not? Also, feel free to add anything/help build on this. I think it could be really cool.