Tweets2011
As part of the TREC 2011 microblog track, Twitter provided identifiers for approximately 16 million tweets sampled between January 23rd and February 8th, 2011. The corpus is designed to be a reusable, representative sample of the twittersphere - i.e. both important and spam tweets are included.
Expect to see an emphasis on the scholarly and research implications of the acquisition. I’m no Ph.D., but it boggles my mind to think what we might be able to learn about ourselves and the world around us from this wealth of data. And I’m certain we’ll learn things that none of us now can even possibly conceive.