How can I find a collection of tweets? [closed]

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Is there any data sets which includes tweets? I am doing a project in information retrieval and I need a large set of tweets.

Thanks in advance.

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That one could be helpfull http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/twitter-census-developer-tools-mapping-from-twitter-user-search- And you can use Twitter API to retrieve fresh data.

Answer 2

I finally found the collection I was looking for here:

https://wiki.engr.illinois.edu/display/forward/Dataset-UDI-TwitterCrawl-Aug2012