It’s Better Down the Pub – support needed for ‘mass tweet’
SIBA was one of the original industry supporters of It’s Better Down the Pub; the inspiration for the video at the heart of the campaign was our ‘Proud of British Beer’ film and I know many members have already engaged with it on social media and donated competition prizes, for which our thanks.
We have offered to help It’s Better Down the Pub with a drive to increase its Twitter following, which is linked to the campaign’s next competition around sport in pubs. The aim is to create a ‘mass tweet’ to coincide with the start of Champions’ League group matches next Tuesday, 17 September.
The ambition is to hit 3 million tweets with the help of ‘Thunderclap’, a new website that allows people and companies to tweet or Facebook a message all at the same time on the same day. It’s effectively an online version of a flash mob.
Signing up to Thunderclap takes no more than a minute and you can do it at any time between now and next Tuesday morning. Just follow this link https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/3649-it-s-better-down-the-pub?locale=en.
Note that by signing up to Thunderclap you are not giving them access to your Twitter database, just a ‘one off’ permission to get Twitter to Tweet the same message to the followers of everyone who signs up. If you have any concerns about Thunderclap, you may want to read the attached document which includes some FAQs.
If successful, this mass tweet will provide a massive boost to It’s Better Down the Pub. It is in all our interests to make this campaign a success, so let’s all get behind this drive and remind people that live sport, like great beer, is ‘better down the pub’.
For more information on the campaign, visit http://www.itsbetterdownthepub.com/, or follow it on @IBDTP
