Signed up with Twitter today and followed 63 twitter-ers based on Twitters “find people” with “technology” as a keyword. Also, signed up with TweetLater now called SocialOomphAPI. Configured SocialOomphAPI to send @replies for daily digest, also to auto follow those who follow techbizcomau.
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Updates: Receiving confirmation from some of the 63 to follow techbizcomau tweets. Obviously, they are using an auto-follow script to generate their friends list.
Updates 28 Sep 2009: 14 followers after 24 hours.
Updates 28 Sep 2009 6.20pm: Selected next 30 Twitter-ers using “technology” as keyword. Latest stats: 96 following, 15 followers, 3 updates.
Updates 30 Sep 2009 5:20am: Latest 100 following, 25 followers, 3 updates. Obviously 4 additional following coming from auto-follow.
Updates 2 October 2009 9:00am: 102 following, 28 followers, 3 updates. Will get “business technology” 5 but 3 have no updates. follow BTecheditor and biztechnology; get 36 “home business” with updates
Updates 2 October 2009 2:30pm:Follow “home business” 11; “technology” 10
Balance following 162.
Updates 2 Oct 10:30m: following 171, 54 followers 5 tweets
Updates 4 Oct 6:15pm: following 186, 68 followers 5 tweets, will add extra 10 for “technology”, 19 “small business”; Balance following 216, 68 followers, 5 updates.
Updates 5 Oct 6:15pm: Following 229, 90 followers, 6 updates. Against yesterday’s, this means, there were 13 we followed automatically because they followed us (excluding those we intentionally followed) and net 22 followers some of who followed us because we followed them and some 13 followers who followed because they initiated to follow us.
Updates 7 Oct 5:30am: Following 238, 103 followers, 5 updates.
Updates 9 Oct 5:30am: Following 251, 112 followers, 5 updates.
Note: Without following, 9 followed us who we automatically followed which should make us following only 247. How come we are reported to be following 251?
Followed 25 “Australia”.
Updates 16 Oct 11:15pm Following 317, 156 followers, 6 updates.
@techbizcomau Twitter, 16 Oct 11:30pm
Updates 17 Oct 11:20pm Following 319, 159 followers, 6 updates.
Followed additional 25 using “Australia” as keyword.
Updated 28 October 5.25pm: Following Followed additional 20 using “Australia” as keyword. After following 20, following 402, 199 followers, 8 updates.
Updated 30 November 4:45pm: FilAustralian following 430 followers 362. Follow additional 51 using “Australia” as keyword.
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