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Archiving Tweets

If you’ve run Damon Cortesi’s handy curl command to download all (or the last 3200) tweets from your twitter account, you’ll have a directory full of files with names like user_timeline.xml?count=100&page=1. Not only that but they include a large amount of redundant profile stuff in the <user> element. And not only that, but twitter sometimes [...]

Twitter over IP

Let’s solve Twitter’s scalability problems, shall we?

So, like most people, I don’t know much about the problems there and certainly don’t have any solutions to suggest. But I do know there are a certain class of solutions which aren’t on the table.

If you look at Twitter from a suitably high vantage point you see real-time [...]