🚂 SUGGESTIONS FOR TRUMPTRAIN CONDUCTORS — by @Dbargen

🔥 To increase visibility and RTs, send the train via DM to each rider. This circumvents the ‘tweet unavailable’ Twitter displays in notifications, preventing riders from seeing trains they’ve been added to. Use the SEND VIA DM function. Don’t paste the link repetitively or you’ll get snagged for spam and be restricted for hours.

When selecting folks for #TrumpTrain:

- Select real people

- Choose only those whose numbers indicate a tendency to reciprocate.

- Choose only pro Trump conservatives.

- Include a graphic, meme, GIF, etc, with each train.

- Include only people you have a mutual follow with.

- It would be wise to contact folks in advance to be sure they want to participate.

⭐️ Add your regular riders towards the bottom. Very likely most of your readers already follow those. Add the new, smaller accounts to the top of the train. They will be noticed there more easily and they need the follows!

➖Include a minority of regulars. Reserve the majority of your space for new folks.

Suggestions:

🚂 When selecting folks for a #TrumpTrain 🚂

NEVER include:

➖Silhouette avatars

➖Locked accounts

➖Blue check verified accounts

➖Accounts with few tweets

➖Accounts without recent tweets

➖Accounts without predominantly conservative political tweets

➖Accounts without profile text

➖Accounts whose numbers don’t indicate a tendency to follow back

➖Marketers

➖Random types — Quotes, jokes, health tips, beautiful pictures, etc

It is possible to link cars together by creating a thread. That is not recommended! Twitter has tightened restrictions on trains and using that method could lead to suspension.

Start with selecting riders from your own followers. It’s dicey throwing folks on trains without warning. Send DMs asking, maybe as you are acknowledging their follow.

⚠️ NEVER hand type the @ names! The ONLY acceptable method is COPY PASTE.

✅ BEST Method: If you are able to send the account a DM — Direct message, click on the icon to create a DM, then click the @ symbol. Their @ name will appear as a choice. Copy paste that to an Apple Note or a text doc or to wherever you are building the train.

Otherwise:

➡️To capture the @ name of any account in question, I suggest clicking the account @ name

➡️Click as though you are going to send ’em an open tweet to display their @ name

➡️SELECT ALL, CUT. Then go to destination and PASTE. That is more accurate and quicker than retyping the addy.

❇️ I would not include anyone not following you. You are promoting this person to whoever sees your trains.

Many conductors include requirements for a ride. Usually this means:

- RT the train

- Comment separately after RT — perhaps “Great train! Thanks for the ride!”

- Send DM — Direct message to Conductor requesting a ride

🛑 Never ‘steal’ another conductor’s train. If you want to utilize the riders, perhaps copy them into a spreadsheet along with many others and shuffle them by sorting them to intermingle with others.

🌀 While many conductors like linked train cars, I find them bothersome as the recipient.

#️⃣ I’ve observed that it’s useful to identify your trains. Some use a car number. It is helpful to use a unique hashtag on all your trains so you can easily find them as a collection. You may have to research finding a unique tag or it won’t work.

You can click on any tag and see tweets that include it. Many search that way to see what is being said on a particular topic.

INCREASE RTs:

Send the train via DM to each rider using the Share Via DM function. It sounds tedious but it’s not. RTs will increase dramatically!

Many trains are being labeled ‘tweet unavailable’ by Twitter in Notifications, especially if you are posting trains in a repetitive fashion. Mix up your actions to help alleviate the issue.

⭐️It helps significantly to DM the trains to the riders so they don’t have to rely on Notifications.

ADDITIONAL

➖It helps to place names in a vertical column.

➖It helps to group the riders in groups of 5 for easy clicking

➖ALWAYS include a meme or a gif

➖You are limited by characters, so spaces, line breaks and emojis reduce space available for rider names

➡️ If out of space, just run another train car!

Suggestions for riders:

🚂🚃🚃 SUCCESS on #TrumpTrain:

➖Identify and follow the creator — referred to as the ‘conductor’

➖RT all the trains they send. Many are multiple cars, often connected in threads

➖Follow all the riders after vetting to be sure they are not ne’er do wells, trolls or marketers

➖Reciprocate and follow back the conservatives who follow you

➖Do NOT have a locked/protected account!

➖Do not have a silhouette avatar!

➖Include strong conservative hashtags or keywords in your profile text. #MAGA is by far the most powerful hashtag currently available to conservatives and I recommend all include it in their profile text.

➡️ Be sure to understand the Conductor’s intentions. Some conductors prefer you to only RT and respond to the train without modifications. Some encourage folks to add 10 more to their train. Others consider that to be theft of the train and will block you for any modification.

➡️ 💡 When replying to a train, simply RT & THEN comment via REPLY

➖If you ‘RT with comment’, only the conductor can see your comment!

➖It interrupts the flow of the train.

➖A simple REPLY promotes everyone more!

💡Trump Trains promote GROWTH! 📈

➡️ It is tedious to click every single name on a train. Easier: Look at the first reply (or your own reply) to the train thread. It will indicate “Reply to @ name and 15 other people.” That statement is clickable. When you click it, you can easily see the ones you aren’t already following, allowing you to focus your attention on those.

➡️ As you follow folks, keep a record of who you follow and pare off / unfollow those who don’t reciprocate after about a week.

➡️A common question:

WHY DONT TRAIN RIDERS FOLLOW BACK?

➖Many riders unfortunately don’t know train etiquette — Good conductors EDUCATE in advance

➖Some riders did not give advance permission to be on the train and consider trains spam

➖Good conductors COMMUNICATE in advance

➖Some folks on Twitter don’t pay much attention

➖Many are newbies and need assistance