Switching Petition Platforms
Tristan Copley Smith
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The #WeAreTwitter petition is currently hosted on the Action Network platform. Change.org is an alternative platform interested in hosting our petition for the campaign's re-launch on Monday (tomorrow).
Here are the pros and cons, as highlighted in the #communications channel on Slack:
Pros for moving to Change.org:
- It is a better known platform with larger community (12m in UK alone)
- They have offered to support our campaign in newsletters emails to their community in UK an look into other countries as well
- There have been issues with the Action Network platform including language support, misleading signature goals, smaller user community
Cons for moving to Change.org:
- Current petition signees will need to re-sign, we may loose some
- Unlike Action Network, Change.org is for-profit and controversial among some activists (see http://bit.ly/2f0Ep8g)
- They use cookies and tracking for advertisements
Poll Created Tue 1 Nov 2016 2:21AM
Time to sign the new petition! Closed Tue 1 Nov 2016 3:02PM
Okay, we're public! Spread the word far and wide. Here's a tweet to RT: https://twitter.com/internetowners/status/793464419518865409
You voted on it (or had a chance to). This week we're re-launching the #WeAreTwitter petition with help and support from Shareable and Change.org. We need to start seeding the petition with our names before it goes public. Please sign your names here:
https://www.change.org/p/twitter-inc-free-twitter-from-wall-street
Don't start spreading this to your networks until Tuesday morning.
Results
| Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |
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Agree | 83.3% | 5 |
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| Abstain | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Disagree | 16.7% | 1 |
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| Block | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Undecided | 0% | 243 |
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6 of 249 people have participated (2%)
Nathan Schneider
Tue 1 Nov 2016 2:39AM
Did it!
Michael Siepmann
Tue 1 Nov 2016 3:05AM
Done.
Bernardo Parrella
Tue 1 Nov 2016 4:15AM
just signed
Billy K.
Tue 1 Nov 2016 11:02AM
Who exactly is the addressee of the petition? What I want to say is that a petition does not affect at all on private company. Petitions are commonly addressed to governmental administrations.
Timothy A McDonald
Tue 1 Nov 2016 1:48PM
Done.
Nathan Schneider · Tue 1 Nov 2016 1:21PM
@billyk if you look at the petitions on major sites, including Change.org, you'll see many are addressed to non-state actors. A petition like this only has an effect based on its performative impact, so there's no reason it would affect a state any more than a company. And a company could be quite affected by it, actually, if the company finds it embarrassing or a manifestation of concern by users.