{"id":484,"date":"2011-08-26T15:25:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T19:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=484"},"modified":"2016-07-05T18:17:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T22:17:57","slug":"join-the-immigration-conversation-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2011\/08\/26\/join-the-immigration-conversation-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Join the #Immigration Conversation on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have been around the FAIR community for a while, you\u2019ve probably seen us asking you to join our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FAIRImmigration\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook Page<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/fairimmigration\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter account<\/a>. Our social networks are a great way for you to stay updated on the latest, most important immigration news and opinion.  Becoming a fan of Facebook and following FAIR on Twitter are not the only ways to get involved and stay updated on all-things immigration. Twitter hashtags also provide you with a quick and easy way to stay informed about immigration news online. <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a quick Twitter hashtag primer. <\/p>\n<p>Our Twitter followers have no doubt noticed that almost every tweet from FAIR ends with #afire or #immigration. These are \u201chashtags\u201d, which basically serve as keywords or search terms for the Twitter community.  Hashtags are used for categorizing a discussion or narrowing down a much larger topic. By utilizing the pound (#) sign before a word, your tweet is entered into the global conversation related to that #word. Any word or string of characters can become a hashtag and you don\u2019t need a Twitter account to follow them. Simply go to Twitter.com, enter the hashtag you want to follow into the search bar, and Twitter will send you to a results page with the most current tweets using that hashtag.<\/p>\n<p>Hashtags are often acronyms for topics with greater meaning.  In FAIR\u2019s case, #afire stands for Americans for Immigration Reform and Enforcement.  In addition to #afire and #immigration, here are 5 more hashtags that you can use to follow both sides of the debate:<\/p>\n<p>1.  <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/?q=%23cir#!\/search\" target=\"_blank\">#cir<\/a> &#8211; Open-borders advocates use #CIR to promote their \u201cComprehensive Immigration Reform\u201d or pro-amnesty positions. At FAIR, following #CIR helps us make sure we also have the most recent information from all sides of the debate.<\/p>\n<p>2.  <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/?q=%23cir#!\/search\/%23NoAmnesty\" target=\"_blank\">#NoAmnesty<\/a> &#8211; At FAIR we use this hashtag whenever our tweets are related to efforts by pro-amnesty forces to provide amnesty for illegal aliens.<\/p>\n<p>3.   <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/?q=%23cir#!\/search\/%23dreamact\" target=\"_blank\">#DREAMact<\/a> &#8211; DREAM Act. This hashtag is used by both true immigration reformers and open borders advocates to discuss the #DREAMAct. <\/p>\n<p>4.  <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/?q=%23cir#!\/search\/%23border\" target=\"_blank\">#Border<\/a> &#8211; We use #border for any tweets pertaining to border security issues.<\/p>\n<p>5.  <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/?q=%23cir#!\/search\/%23sb1070\" target=\"_blank\">#SB1070<\/a> &#8211; SB 1070 is used to refer to Arizona\u2019s immigration enforcement bill. FAIR is a supporter of #SB1070 and we use this hashtag often to show our support for the pro-enforcement community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have been around the FAIR community for a while, you\u2019ve probably seen us asking you to join our Facebook Page and Twitter account. Our social networks are a great way for you to stay updated on the latest, most important immigration news and opinion. Becoming a fan of Facebook and following FAIR on<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2011\/08\/26\/join-the-immigration-conversation-on-twitter\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1450],"tags":[20,420],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12993,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/12993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}