One week in!

One week in!

So one week into my challenge to obtain 20,000 followers on Twitter within a year!

Current position

The follower count has increased from 15 to 508!

So that's a gain of 493 over 7 days or 70 per day.  This is good, as it exceeds the figure of 56 per day required to achieve the goal!

Breakdown per day

How has this follower increased worked out per day?

So in the main, the follower count has gradually increased to settle around the 80 per day mark.

How have we generated these followers?

We have built a custom script around the public Twitter API (Application Program Interface) that essentially performs multiple searches on Twitter looking for certain accounts that meet my criteria, when these are found the script follows 2 of them in the hope that they also follow the account back.
As can be seen from the counts in the first picture above, current counts are:

So we are following 833 accounts but only 508 have followed back, I.e. a response rate of 61%.  However this includes accounts that I have also manually followed, so a better test would be to dive into the database behind my script.  This gives figures of:

So based on figures of 226 and 593 we have a success rate of 38%.  

My scripts runs 3 times an hour, 24 hours a day, so I am therefore following an additional 144 people a day, so with a strike date of 38% this gives 55 people a day!

Our target is 56 so we are very close to the required figure - clearly we will have to monitor this over the next few weeks and try and make the strike rate a little higher!

So what now

Please keep checking back to this blog on a weekly basis and see how well I am progressing with my quest to gain 20,000 twitter followers in a year!

I intend to post to this blog each Friday evening (GMT timezone).

Don't forget to follow @TwentykFollow on Twitter and tell all your friends to do the same!

Thanks for reading and I hope to see you back here soon!

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