Christy Warden (Social Media)

09/27/16

Talked with Ramee about what kind of content the twitter account seeks to retweet/take links from. Issues she has with HootSuite: - Content in the feed is not relevant, often from illegitimate sources (random people's tweets that happen to contain the word entrepreneurship)

Goals for HOOTSUITE: - improve filters to grab tweets with legitimate content - innovation/research good from most fields, specifically life sciences/ health - preferred from around Houston/ San Francisco/ Boston

THINGS I DID for HOOTSUITE: - add the filter:link to the HootSuite feeds to only include tweets which link to external sources (hopefully increases legitimate tweets) - add geolocation (Houston) to the innovation feed to decrease scope of search - added "patent" search to entrepreneurship field and "research" to innovation - required both feeds to filter for tweets containing links

ANTICIPATING IMPORTANT TWEETS/ BLOGPOSTS BRAINSTORMING: - example given by Dr. Egan: We could have created a blogpost linking all of the Channels that the debates would be shown on - looking for a calendar to anticipate http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-31/whats-ahead-2016-key-events-next-12-months ?? - Potentially have people write blogposts with searchable terms/tags just before events ("10 Nobel Prize Innovators Who blah blah blah" right before the announcement of Nobel Prizes this October)

FINDING PEOPLE WHO FOLLOW PEOPLE LIKE US: I am reading about this guy's crawler https://github.com/bianjiang/tweetf0rm which appears to do this. I will continue looking at it on Thursday.

09/29/16

MAKING NOTE OF OUR EXISTING CRAWLERS

Existing Crawlers