Hi there, While working with the Twitter API last night, I found myself thinking of some crazy ideas for use of the full public timeline feed. Proving these ideas would be pretty simple given a sample of the timeline on my laptop, and so I was wondering if such a thing is available?
Basically, I'd like a copy of about 24 hours worth of the equivalent of the XMPP feed from some arbitrary moment in time, perhaps with a snapshot of the social graph for the people that tweeted during that time frame. If something like this isn't already available for research purposes, I think it'd be a wonderful contribution on Twitter's part, perhaps even if some anonymization was applied (although this seems pointless given it *is* the public timeline). If nothing else, it'd allow people like me (hacker with a laptop and 4gb of RAM) to quickly come up with much cooler uses for the Twitter data. :) Thoughts? David.
