10/27
First I ran a program that unfollowed all of the non-responders from my last follow spree and then I updated by datas about who followed us back. I cannot seem to see a pattern yet in the probability of someone following us back based on the parameters I am keeping track of, but hopefully we will be able to see something with more data. Last week we had 151 followers, at the beginning of today we had 175 follows and by the time that I am leaving (4:45) we have 190 followers. I think the program is working, but I hope the rate of growth increases.
11/1
Did the usual, followed around 100 people after purging our followed list from my previous session. I estimate that from here onward, this will take me approximately 1.5 hours to complete during every day that I work.
Now, I am trying to strategize a way to keep our account informed when major news sources release anything related to entrepreneurship or innovation which is what I was asked to do next.
My current idea is to have a dummy account (I can use the account I build for the test application) in order to follow all of those sources. I think it should run constantly, and when the timeline has a new item, the program will look at the content of the tweet and check for buzzwords. If the tweet does have buzzwords, it should direct message the BakerMcNair account a link to the tweet so that it can be considered.
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