Weekday:
12:00am, the 16th: Introductory “yay it’s #16tovote on the 16th!” tweet along with link to Top 10 Reasons to Lower the Voting Age
12:02am: tweets some basic voting age point to get things started
12:10am: trying to think of another voting age tweet, comes up with crap
12:15am: finally just tweets link to recent voting age news article, if one’s available
12:30am: facepalms at Max’s “#16tovote or I’ll chop off your dick and shove it down your throat” tweet
1:00am: manages to tweet some good stuff, perhaps a couple tweets and/or retweets from regulars
1:30am: can’t come up with anything else for night but stays up late with it for some reason
2:00am: finally tweets link to NYRA voting age page or something from the downloads section, to get people through night
2:30am: goes to bed, ready to get up and get to work nice and early to resume
9:00am: swears loudly for having overslept, throws on clothes and leaves house
9:30am: gets to work, posts “good morning!” tweet
10:00am: posts some brilliant points that go ignored since no one’s paying attention this time of day
10:30am: retweets stuff posted from the sciville account night before
11:00am: other than Silver Fang retweeting everything, nothing much else, tweeting whatever voting age crap I come up with
12:00pm: midpoint! tweets NYRA-SEFL’s old voting age ad
12:15pm: can’t come up with anything to tweet after the voting age ad
12:30pm: says screw it and tweets that dumb picture where I wrote a #16tovote tweet in Ocean City beach sand
1:00pm: some jerk trolls #16tovote feed or at-replies us with bullshit, is ignored
2:00pm: tweets Usi’s awesome Supreme Court speech video
2:30pm: tweets something about student rights, perhaps how lower voting age would eliminate school paddling
2:35pm: some asshole pipes up saying school paddling is sometimes needed, is ignored
3:00pm: “Thanks, everyone! Once again, Top 10 Reasons to Lower the Voting Age!” a la SNL announcing second performance of musical guest
3:15pm: Alexander Cohen tweets same six #16tovote tweets he does every month
4:00pm: some more regulars start coming in
5:00pm: think about heading home, yet still tweet some more
5:30pm: get stuck on points about consent of the governed
5:45pm: head home
6:00pm: get inside house and to computer, tweet again NYRA-SEFL’s voting age ad, a la SNL announcing second performance of musical guest
6:30pm: Alex remembers it’s the 16th, over 18 hours into it, and only then (if at all) posts about it on Facebook
7:00pm: posts Alex’s famous Huffington Post article refuting Ann Coulter’s asshattery
8:00pm: thanks people for participation, says it’s been great, maybe posts link to voting age page again
8:45pm: realizes hasn’t tweeted in 45 minutes, tries to come up with something, comes up with crap that somehow winds up widely retweeted
9:00pm: reposts Usi’s Supreme Court speech, a la SNL announcing second performance of musical guest
9:30pm: tweeting slows, tweets sarcastic bullshit from sciville account
9:45pm: someone tweets stupid question about a #16tovote tweet, not bothering to see answer to it was tweeted earlier, is ignored
10:00pm: bugs Galen to finally participate since I see him tweeting other things, he finally does, but inappropriate for retweet from NYRA
10:30pm: Alex finally remembers it’s the 16th despite this having been going on a while and finally shows up and tweets something
10:31pm: facepalms because Alex can never seem to remember that starting a tweet with someone’s username makes it so that tweet can only be seen by those following that person
11:15pm: realizes again I went a long time without tweeting anything, bleh
11:30pm: announces there’s half hour to go, to give it a big finish
11:40pm: bunch of people only just now realize the event’s going and retweet lots of stuff
11:55pm: gives my final remarks, whatever crap I come up with based on whatever got tweeted earlier, cranks out some eloquent sounding closing speech
12:00am, the 17th: it’s over, I breathe sigh of relief, start counting number of participants and recording rest of #16tovote tweets
12:20am: post several tweets thanking participants, then announces the next one will be – you’ll never guess! – the 16th of next month! yay!
Weekend:
12:00am, the 16th: Introductory tweet, calling this run a Saturday Edition or Sunday Edition!
3:00am: decides to finally go to bed despite sparse tweets, intends to get up early next morning to get back to it
11:00am: crap, I overslept! rushes back into it
12:00pm: tweets voting age ad
The rest is about the same.
For youth rights. For NYRA. *brandishes fist*
