> Twitter provided identifiers for approximately 16 million tweets sampled between January 23rd and February 8th, 2011. > Note that it can take several days

> Twitter provided identifiers for approximately 16 million tweets sampled between January 23rd and February 8th, 2011. > Note that it can take several days to download your copy of the Tweets2011. Why does Twitter make it so cumbersome to download tweets, especially for non-commercial reasons? Twitter data can be REALLY useful to researchers. Here's what I'm doing with it: http://ktype.net/wiki/research:articles:progress_20110209 http://ktype.net/wiki/research:articles:progress_20110209 I'd love to re-run my parsing algo and build a newer, better n-gram list but this seems like a lot of effort to download what could have been a simple torrent. I understand the need to enforce delete-tweet request but that can still be accomplished regardless of how the data is downloaded.