When new Twitter consulting clients ask me to plan a tweet collection database, the first question they always ask is how much it will cost. I can give them a rough estimate for the cost of my programming time based on their desired features, but it is impossible to know how much server power they […]
Twitter Database Programming
Most of the Twitter consulting I do involves some form of tweet collection and storage in a database. Even when clients approach me with this in mind, they hardly ever realize just how valuable tweet data can be. In fact, it is priceless in the truest sense of the word, because there is no way […]
There seems to be a good amount of interest in the new set of tutorials I’ve started writing, and most of the code I produce interacts with a MySQL database, so I’m going to post the code for my standard database library here. This makes it easy for me to link to this post multiple […]
