Freshman Kennedy Beck<a href="https://twitter.com/keekerdeek">Kennedy Beck</a> is a busy woman. She&#8217;s a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority, a dancer on the spirit squad and a member of Baker University&#8217;s choir. But Beck&#8217;s daily activities don&#8217;t just include dance practice and homework. She is a dedicated Twitter user and tweets about 40 to 50 times a day. is a busy woman. She’s a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority, a dancer on the spirit squad and a member of Baker University’s choir. But Beck’s daily activities don’t just include dance practice and homework. She is a dedicated Twitter user and tweets about 40 to 50 times a day. Kennedy Beck is a busy woman. She’s a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority, a dancer on the spirit squad and a member of Baker University’s choir. But Beck’s daily activities don’t just include dance practice and homework. She is a dedicated Twitter user and tweets about 40 to 50 times a day.
“Sometimes I can’t put my phone down, which is probably bad,” Beck said.
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Beck doesn’t make it a goal to tweet as often as she does. Sometimes she tweets 10 times, other days she tweets 200 times, but her tweets are something that come naturally to her.
“I will think of something and tweet it,” Beck said. “I try to be funny … I don’t tweet boring things like what I’m doing. I try to make things funny so people don’t think they’re boring.”
Beck is at about 21,500 tweets on her account, which she has had since 2010. Since school started in August, Beck has gained about 200 followers and has almost 700. She doesn’t know all of the people who follow her, but that doesn’t bother her.
“It’s fine if (strangers) want to follow me,” Beck said. “That’s why my account’s not private. If they message me or something, though, I block them, but I don’t think (following a stranger) is creepy.”
Beck isn’t the only person who has many followers. Freshman Jalen Lynk<a href="https://twitter.com/Jlynk34">Jalen Lynk</a> has more than 1,000 followers and wants more. has more than 1,000 followers and wants more. Jalen Lynk has more than 1,000 followers and wants more.
“Famous people have thousands of followers,” Lynk said. “why cant I?”
When Beck gets one or two new followers, she doesn’t get very excited, but if she reaches a big number like 700 followers, it is an accomplishment. She also knows that sometimes the large number of times she tweets causes her to lose followers, but it doesn’t bother her.
“I won’t be offended if people unfollow me after they follow me because I know I do tweet a lot,” Beck said.
Lynk and Beck both don’t follow everyone one who follows them. Lynk follows friends from school and home, while Beck follows her friends and some parody accounts like @cuteemergency<a href="https://twitter.com/CuteEmergency/">@cuteemergency</a> and and @spoiledbratprbz<a href="https://twitter.com/spoiledbratprbz/">@spoiledbratprbz</a>.. @cuteemergency and @spoiledbratprbz.
Unlike Beck, Lynk thinks parody accounts are more like spam and doesn’t follow them.
Beck doesn’t personally have a parody account because she thinks the upkeep of tweeting on it would be a lot, but she follows the comedic accounts related to BU, such as @Baker_Probz<a href="https://twitter.com/Baker_Probz">@Baker_Probz</a> and and @Baker_squirrels<a href="https://twitter.com/baker_squirrels">@Baker_squirrels</a>.. @Baker_Probz and @Baker_squirrels.
Baker has a number of parody accounts online, ranging from @Baker_Probz and its counter-account @Baker_Solutions<a href="https://twitter.com/Baker_Solutions">@Baker_Solutions</a> to accounts for the residence halls. to accounts for the residence halls. @Baker_Solutions to accounts for the residence halls.
“They don’t tweet a lot, but sometimes they’re funny and I go to school here so sometimes I can relate to them,” Beck said.
The number of accounts relating to Baker’s campus has increased this year as Twitter has become more popular. Dean of Students Cassy Bailey said there have been a couple of instances when the university has had to talk to students about information on Twitter, but for the most part the school doesn’t closely follow what students are doing online.
“We trust our students,” Bailey said. “We don’t monitor or troll their Twitter accounts, but if something is brought to our attention we do act upon it.”
As for the parody accounts, if there is an account with false information or that casts a negative light on the university or breaks the student code of conduct, it could cause concern.
“Parody accounts can be good fun as long as they don’t harm individuals or put the university in jeopardy,” Bailey said.
