{"id":8698,"date":"2022-08-24T16:03:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T16:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8698"},"modified":"2022-08-24T16:03:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T16:03:58","slug":"campaigns-may-have-lost-their-most-effective-and-annoying-outreach-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8698","title":{"rendered":"Campaigns may have lost their most effective \u2014 and annoying \u2014 outreach tool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Text messaging \u2014 with their markedly high \u201copen rates<\/a>\u201d \u2014 is an especially potent form of political outreach: Since 2016, texting has become one of the most appealing ways for campaigns to engage voters or supporters, especially as so many have ditched their landlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But as part of a broader effort to crack down on the fast-growing problem of spam calls and texts, mobile carriers like AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon have been rolling out a new policy that affects any business, nonprofit, union, or campaign that intends to send at least 3,000 messages per day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It means that political campaigns and advocacy groups have fewer rights to text you, if you haven\u2019t affirmatively opted in to receive the messages \u2014 and it\u2019s causing distress among those groups ahead of the midterms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The changes \u2014 known as \u201c10DLC<\/a>\u201d for the 10-digit long codes that high-volume businesses and apps use to text local numbers \u2014 will require organizations to register with the Campaign Registry<\/a>, a subsidiary of the Milan-based communications firm Kaleyra. Carriers will impose higher messaging fees and slower delivery rates for any group that fails to register, and in some cases block them from delivering messages altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every registered group must also limit their texts only to users who have opted-in to receive them, a massive change from the status quo. Progressive groups warn this new requirement will yield dire democratic consequences \u2014 particularly for the most marginalized who are typically ignored by elites and politicians. Others suggest these groups have grown too reliant on unsolicited texting, and that it\u2019s not essential to successful mobilization.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2022\/7\/19\/23268260\/midterms-texting-10dlc-campaigns-optin-mobile<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Text messaging \u2014 with their markedly high \u201copen rates\u201d \u2014 is an especially potent form of political outreach: Since 2016, texting has become one of the most appealing ways for campaigns to engage voters or supporters, especially as so many have ditched their landlines.<\/p>\n

But as part of a broader effort to crack down on the fast-growing problem of spam calls and texts, mobile carriers like AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon have been rolling out a new policy that affects any business, nonprofit, union, or campaign that intends to send at least 3,000 messages per day.<\/p>\n

It means that political campaigns and advocacy groups have fewer rights to text you, if you haven\u2019t affirmatively opted in to receive the messages \u2014 and it\u2019s causing distress among those groups ahead of the midterms.<\/p>\n

The changes \u2014 known as \u201c10DLC\u201d for the 10-digit long codes that high-volume businesses and apps use to text local numbers \u2014 will require organizations to register with the Campaign Registry, a subsidiary of the Milan-based communications firm Kaleyra. Carriers will impose higher messaging fees and slower delivery rates for any group that fails to register, and in some cases block them from delivering messages altogether.<\/p>\n

Every registered group must also limit their texts only to users who have opted-in to receive them, a massive change from the status quo. Progressive groups warn this new requirement will yield dire democratic consequences \u2014 particularly for the most marginalized who are typically ignored by elites and politicians. Others suggest these groups have grown too reliant on unsolicited texting, and that it\u2019s not essential to successful mobilization.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[585,372,198,509,1715,1714],"class_list":["post-8698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-campaign","tag-election","tag-elections","tag-politics","tag-spam","tag-texts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8699,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8698\/revisions\/8699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}