So, you are scraping Twitter (likely violating their ToS) to get users' Tweets (... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		JoachimSchipper on May 26, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Start mining - FREE 100MM tweet db So, you are scraping Twitter (likely violating their ToS) to get users' Tweets (likely violating their copyright) and now posting about it on HN? When Twitter is selling chunks of its stream, e.g. via InfoChimps? I don't want to be mean, but this doesn't strike me as a very good idea.

MrMcDowall on June 8, 2011 [–]

It didn't work out well for the last guys who tried it :(

http://discovertext.com/osamabinladen.aspx

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact