BBC Tweet store
Licence: Strictly for Non-Commercial Use under the Backstage Licence. Offered to Backstage with permission of BBC Backstage.
Description: A copy of all the BBC twitter accounts from April 2009 going forward
Status: Unstable
Type: XML REST API
This is a growing data store of over 100 BBC twitter accounts (usually ones with BBC in there name). It expands past the usual twitter search api in time and depth but is only limited to BBC twitter accounts. Currently all the data is stored in a XMLDB which you can access via its REST interface. The twitter user is (http://twitter.com/a_creosote)
http://mammoth.welcomebackstage.com/exist/rest/db/feeds/twitter.com
Examples
http://mammoth.welcomebackstage.com/exist/rest/feeds/twitter.com/users/ - All users captured - All users
http://mammoth.welcomebackstage.com/exist/rest/feeds/twitter.com/users/6... - This is the profile of BBC politics on the 19th May 2009 at 0749
http://mammoth.welcomebackstage.com/exist/rest/feeds/twitter.com/users/7... - This is the profile of BBC Click on the 8th May 2009 at 0350
http://mammoth.welcomebackstage.com/exist/rest/feeds/twitter.com/users/6... - One of the tweets by BBC politics on 19th May 2009