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Can a .net app be made to pull twitter posts?

I am wondering if its possible to capture any of the posts made on twitter by any user? I am trying to obtain an unrestricted flow of tweets to use as sample data for statistical analysis.

I want to try to gauge the sentiment of topics such as "thanksgiving" or "global warming"

I was thinking on a high level I would be able to pull all tweets containing a "#thanksgiving" tag and save them to a SQL DB for analysis.

Is this a valid approach of that, or is there a better way? Is there a tool to do this already that will save me the development time?

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You can use the Twitter API.

Specifically, this question contains the answer you'll need to get all tweets with a certain hashtag:

Twitter API - Display all tweets with a certain hashtag?

In terms of tools to do it with, TweetSharp is a C# wrapper for the Twitter API. I can't vouch for it though as I've never used it.

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