Getting historical data from Twitter [closed]

Question

For a research project I would like to get the last 3 months worth of Twitter messages. Technical challenges aside, is this possible? by using some sort of slow polling mechanism to keep the rate limiter at bay?

The Twitter API states "Clients may request up to 3,200 statuses via the page and count parameters for timeline REST API" Are these per hour? Per day? or...ever?

Any suggestions? Would it even be theoretically possible? Did some one do something similar before?

Thanks! Marco

Answer 1

You can get free estimates for the data scope and cost using a service built by my company called Sifter. If you decide to purchase access to the data it will be available via our text analytics platform DiscoverText, where you can search, filter, de-duplicate, cluster, human code, and machine-classify the data.