For twitter, I discovered that the issues I am having lies somewhere in the follow API so for now, I've commented it out and am running the program minus the follow component to assure that everything else is working. So far, I have not seen any unusual behavior, but the program has a long wait period so it is taking a while to test.
'''1/27/17'''
''10-12:45'' So much twitter. Finally found the bug that has plagued the program (sleep_on_rate_limit should have been False). Program is now running on my dummy account, and I am going to check its progress on monday YAY.