CS 371 Ice Breaker - McLeod

 

Hello, my name is Connor McLeod and I am a 4th-year communication studies student. I use many different social media platforms but the one I have been using the most often recently is Twitter. Especially scrolling through a Twitter account by the name @would_it_dong. Would it dong is a Twitter account which is run by an automated bot that analyzes home runs in the MLB. It checks the home run's distance, height and speed to decipher whether it would be a home run in every ballpark. The account then posts which ballparks it would have been a home run in. Being such a big baseball fan, I look at this account even when I am not watching that game. This account definitely takes up most of my time recently and single-handedly accounts for my twitter usage. 

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  1. Zach HattSeptember 23, 2022 at 9:43 AM

    Hello Connor, great post, I really enjoyed it. As a huge baseball fan like yourself, I am always looking for new baseball pages to follow. I have played baseball my whole life and I love watching baseball on my spare time, especially the Bluejays. Hopefully they can catch the Yankees, but a wildcard looks very secure right now. This is such a cool idea for an account since all the ballparks in the MLB are unique and have different dimensions. I will totally be checking this account out and will be following along with you. Thanks for the new follow!

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