Historical data is not available. Grab the /1/statuses/sample.format stream from the Streaming API. Wait a few days and you'll have a corpus to play with.
-John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Oct 21, 7:26 pm, futureboy <future...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, I'm interested in doing some of my own twitter data mining > and I was curious if Twitter posts any data sets covering 24 hour > periods, or perhaps even longer intervals. For instance I'd love to > have a full dump of all tweets over the month when Michael Jackson > died, but even 24 hour dumps would be great. The format seems super > simple, just a timestamp, a username, and the message. Multiply that > by a few million records/day or whatever Twitter now experiences. > > Obviously this would be a decent amount of data although compression > should certainly help. Does Twitter provide such data sets anywhere? > If so, where and how can I access them?
