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[RobbieH]

Getting the press to read through anything is difficult. So to anyone reaching out to the press, or trying to get this more exposure in general, I put this summary together: http://addresstherob.wordpress.com/2013/05/29/ps4-twitter-campaign-potential-press-coverage/. At a glance it should let them know the full extent of what we're trying to accomplish. BBC will be covering it as part of E3 and we're waiting to see if CNN publish an article. As for who else to contact (not spam):

New York Times

https://twitter.com/nickwingfield
https://twitter.com/bxchen

Wall Street Journal

https://twitter.com/iansherr
https://twitter.com/DrewFitzGerald
https://twitter.com/RolfeWinkler
https://twitter.com/adamnajberg

RockPaperShotgun

https://twitter.com/botherer (maybe as a follow-up to this)

Edge

https://twitter.com/Neil_Long_
https://twitter.com/taylorcocke

Wired

https://twitter.com/kobunheat

CBS

https://twitter.com/chendangak

ABC

https://twitter.com/DanMilanoABC
https://twitter.com/JoannaStern

Time

https://twitter.com/mattpeckham

AP

https://twitter.com/liedtkesfc

 

[Kane1345]

Eurogaf checking in. On the tweets already.

 

[dragonelite]

Eurogaf checking in. On the tweets already.

Is there a ava thingy just for Next gen(as in xbone and ps4) noDrm?
I would wear one proudly.

 

[Kane1345]

Is there a ava thingy just for Next gen(as in xbone and ps4) noDrm?
I would wear one proudly.

tbh I would wear a just nextgen one too but I snagged this one off the net somewhere :/

 

[dragonelite]

tbh I would wear a just nextgen one too but I snagged this one off the net somewhere :/

I wish i had some designer skill.
But chances are if i made one it would be ugly as fuck.
Something like the pre xbone reveal tag not to big or at least something people on gaf can recognize.

 

[10101]

Don't post links and be nice and you won't get the suspended message thingy, i got it when i used a premade tweet don't remember from where that had a link D:

I'm always nice lol

I agree I think it was my tweets not being unique so I'm making my own ones today.

 

[baekshi]

Getting the press to read through anything is difficult. So to anyone reaching out to the press, or trying to get this more exposure in general, I put this summary together: http://addresstherob.wordpress.com/2013/05/29/ps4-twitter-campaign-potential-press-coverage/. At a glance it should let them know the full extent of what we're trying to accomplish. As for who to contact:

]

This guy does it for
AP
https://twitter.com/liedtkesfc

 

[Krusenstern]

What do we have here? New logos, new news coverage, new website updates. You guys are all fucking legends!

 

[PaulLFC]

Fantastic work so far everyone, keep going.

I did notice that one site that doesn't seem to have covered this so far is NowGamer. Their Twitter, which they're usually pretty active on, is @NowGamer_Feed

I tweeted them yesterday, but if more of us tweet them politely I think they'd be more likely to give the campaign some coverage.

 

[Sidewinder]

Send a bunch of Tweets to Japanese sites and all the news sites linked by RobbieH with a link to his summary.

 

[IonicSnake]

#PS4NoDRM avatar.

 

[10101]

Fantastic work so far everyone, keep going.

I did notice that one site that doesn't seem to have covered this so far is NowGamer. Their Twitter, which they're usually pretty active on, is @NowGamer_Feed

I tweeted them yesterday, but if more of us tweet them politely I think they'd be more likely to give the campaign some coverage.

I just tweeted them the link to the site (politely).

 

[Flightmare]

#PS4NoDRM avatar.

nice

Fantastic work so far everyone, keep going.

I did notice that one site that doesn't seem to have covered this so far is NowGamer. Their Twitter, which they're usually pretty active on, is @NowGamer_Feed

I tweeted them yesterday, but if more of us tweet them politely I think they'd be more likely to give the campaign some coverage.

done

 

[kogasu]

http://fyfyi.com/2013/05/29/fyfyi-episode-190-famous-mortimer/

famousmortimer, god of the thread, has a new podcast episode discussing this whole movement and everything. In case anyone missed it on Twitter and wanted to listen to it.

 

[Kane1345]

I just tweeted them the link to the site (politely).

yup me too

 

[JonathanEx]

Do be careful when tweeting tech writers etc. It can get annoying if it's just a constant flood: https://twitter.com/davelee/status/339671010813034496

Playstation fans. You don't like DRM. I get it. Flooding me with tweets is irritating. We're looking at the issue as part of our E3 coverage

 

[Sidewinder]

Do be careful when tweeting tech writers etc. It can get annoying if it's just a constant flood: https://twitter.com/davelee/status/339671010813034496

We should cross him out from the list then

 

[zomgbbqftw]

Guys, can we stop spamming. Just ask politely once, if they respond that's great and try and engage, if they don't move on. Don't spam!

We should cross him out from the list then

Nah, the BBC are going to include it in their E3 coverage which starts next week. I think they will be quite positive, they tend not to like DRM. Though MS and the BBC have a weird special relationship so I wouldn't rule out a Kuchera style article just yet.

 

[IonicSnake]

Started listening to the latest ign podcast beyond. This should be interesting.

 

[Toma]

#PS4NoDRM avatar.

Since we should have that avatar thing going a while ago already, here is the banner that people can just put above the avatar:

 

[gofreak]

Guys, can we stop spamming. Just ask politely once, if they respond that's great and try and engage, if they don't move on. Don't spam!

Yeah, I would say with journalists or anyone, tweet once and once only.

With @Playstation or PS people or third party publishers, maybe once or twice per day tops. IMO.

Otherwise sharing to other people to encourage more unique tweets vs repeat tweets is a good idea

And in an effort to alleviate 'boredom' I've started using a random tweet generator on http://gofreak-ie.appspot.com/ps4usedgames . At least it's applied to the Playstation tweet link currently. It picks from a list of tweets that key off the themes of the letter. Will try to add more and apply it also to the third party link.

 

[10101]

Yeah, I would say with journalists or anyone, tweet once and once only.

With @Playstation or PS people or third party publishers, maybe once or twice per day tops. IMO.

And in an effort to alleviate 'boredom' I've started using a random tweet generator on http://gofreak-ie.appspot.com/ps4usedgames . At least it's applied to the Playstation tweet link currently. It picks from a list of tweets that key off the themes of the letter. Will try to add more and apply it also to the third party link.

This is what I've been doing, I don't think spamming journos is going to help anything in the long run. Certainly the industry figures should be contacted more, although again I've only been doing it once per day.

If they just see people spamming them hourly they are likely to think fuck this is is just a few spammers and the message will be diluted, they need to see many people consistently sending tweets over a longer period of time to get the message across IMO.

EDIT: I've also been sharing both your blog and the site to my FB daily, not sure if that going to generate any traffic though my friends seem pretty apathetic to the whole situation

 

[Krusenstern]

I made something quick with an online photo editor (lol) for everyone who wants to share it :

Here another #PS4NoDRM style avatar from previous pages.

 

[kogasu]

Since we should have that avatar thing going a while ago already, here is the banner that people can just put above the avatar:

Thanks! I decided to change up the old avatar a bit heh.

 

[Toma]

Avatars for the last page:

My favourite:

And the template again:

 

[Flightmare]

Avatars for the last page:

thanks

 

[10101]

Avatars for the last page:

That is really awesome, good stuff. Had I known I wouldn't have bothered photoshopping mine lol.

EDIT: Yours looks better with a bigger banner, I shrunk it too much, so I'm going with yours - thanks

 

[Amir0x]

If someone would be so kind do mine I'll wear one (and I never do these avatar things), because I have to head to work, but I'll definitely wear the avatar when I get back.

 

[PaulLFC]

Avatars for the last page:

Awesome work, thanks!

 

[Kane1345]

Any plans for a massive push again before E3? Obviously its gonna slow down a bit in the next week or so but a massive push a day or two before might be a good idea just to remind them.

 

[Paper Sparrow]

Avatars for the last page:

Thanks!

 

[SuicidalSteve]

Anyone care to do mine would be greatly appreciate it

 

[Pano]

done

 

[despire]

Avatars for the last page:

Cool, thanks!

 

[Krusenstern]

If someone would be so kind do mine I'll wear one (and I never do these avatar things), because I have to head to work, but I'll definitely wear the avatar when I get back.

Here you go:

I changed mine too, for unification.

 

[IonicSnake]

Anyone care to do mine would be greatly appreciate it

 

[scandisk_]

Didn't see this one, I say wow! bizzkit!

 

[Toma]

;p

 

[Picobrain]

Well at least they will know we take DRM seriously.

 

[Toma]

Well at least they will know we take DRM seriously.

Nah, I think people know that its not just one thing here. These hashtags are almost synonymous for the whole thing.

 

[SolidSnakex]

So there are now seems to be two possibly Xbox One exclusives from EA (Titan and Mirror's Edge 2). Given how rare exclusives are from EA (particularly big name titles), could that hint at Sony not going the DRM route?

 

[IonicSnake]

;p

 

[Kane1345]

Didn't see this one, I say wow! bizzkit!

Forget that guy he's not gonna change

 

[Moobabe]

I'm not sure I can edit mine in paint... if someone could alter it it'd be much appreciated.

 

[IonicSnake]

I'm not sure I can edit mine in paint... if someone could alter it it'd be much appreciated.

 

[SuicidalSteve]

 

[Danlord]

Well at least they will know we take DRM seriously.

I just hope the efforts aren't in vain. I don't have a Twitter account but trying to get friends whom do to help. The most I can do is my avatar change -_-
Hopefully, this will carry momentum up until E3 and Sony can announce the decision there. I know I'm being optimistic but I would love to see, when Sony's E3 conference is starting that there is loads of the #PS4noDRM tweets moving around the screens similar to how the Curiosity project had at the end. Especially with Sony going last, would be the best to leave E3 conference with the best impact lasting throughout, being top of the news headers.

 

[jakonovski]

Jeez, TB lost just about all credibility he had, devil's advocate my ass.

I'll also wear the ribbon proudly if some kind soul makes me one!

 

[-Plasma Reus-]

Avatars for the last page:

Thanks.

 

[IonicSnake]

Jeez, TB lost just about all credibility he had, devil's advocate my ass.

I'll also wear the ribbon proudly if some kind soul makes me one!