Comments on: Twitter historical database of my tweeps

By: Brent Ozar

Brent Ozar — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:39:58 +0000

Well, kinda sorta – that also lines up with when I started following them. They may have been tweeting before. But there’s an app for that:

http://www.whendidyoujointwitter.com/

That’s one of those fun chest-beating things. “I joined before you, nyah nyah nyah.”

By: Andy Leonard

Andy Leonard — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:48:23 +0000

Hi Brent,

Interesting database! I ran this to determine who created Twitter accounts when:

SELECT distinct s.User_Id, u.screen_name
FROM dbo.Statuses s
INNER JOIN dbo.Users u ON s.USER_ID = u.id
order by s.User_Id

:{> Andy

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SSIS Junkie : Tweetpoll and RESTful Northwind go bye-bye — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:26:18 +0000

[...] RESTful Northwind, it is simply a SQL database hosted up on SQL Azure. In December 2009 Brent Ozar blogged about how he had been archiving tweets from various people that he follows into a SQL Server… and he made a backup of that database available for anyone that wanted to use it. I thought it [...]

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Weekly Link Post 122 « Rhonda Tipton’s WebLog — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:33:25 +0000

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