Just read this article which gives a description on how to archive Twitter stuff with Python. I saw the code and thought 'heck why so complicated?'.

Get python-twitter and do like so:

import twitter

api = twitter.Api()

statuses = api.GetUserTimeline('twitter', count=1000000)
f = open('twitter.txt', 'w')

for s ...

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So a combination of two Tweets made me go to thinking mode the other day. The first one asked: "What would you do/think if Twitter didn't exist tomorrow?" And the second one: "I'll leave Twitter in the coming weeks - 140 characters aren't enough."

Twitter is the ...

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Well yesterday I got me one of those hip Twitter accounts. Yesterday I also got annoyed like hell by it. I'm getting tweets from people that I don't give anything about. Tim O'Reilly? Thanks but no thanks. Who the heck is that Om Malik and Stege Agee ...

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Okay I finally gave in and got me one of those hip Twitter accounts. Find me under chrkau on Twitter (I presume you haven't lived under a rock for the last few months and know what that is).