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Yahoo! has plugged its YQL web query language into a third-party API that lets developers access and analyze a sea of Twitter data dating back to 2006. "This is the real strength of YQL," Yahoo! technical evangelist Tom Hughes-Croucher told The Reg this morning at the net-infrastructure-obsessed Velocity conference in Santa …

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  1. Ralph B
    IT Angle

    Decisions Decisions

    Just tried it ...

    SELECT comment

    FROM 4yearsofTwitter

    WHERE valuable = 'yes'

    comment

    -----------

    (0 row(s) affected)

    DROP 4yearsofTwitter

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  2. davenewman

    Reinventing SparQL

    There already are tools to do this. They use SparQL to query the semantic web. Every week better ones appear on the mailing list associated with data.gov.uk

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  3. Pirate Dave Silver badge
    Pirate

    4 years or twitter...

    must be a mind numbing amount of data. Even looking at the SCSI arrays that hold that data could lead to a lowering of the IQ, and, possibly, stupidity. Mind numbing indeed.

    But it begs the question: in a world where nobody much cares what was said on twitter last week, WHY would anyone care what was said on twitter 4 years ago? And why would any company care to store all of that, index it, and present it to the world? Truly mind numbing.

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  4. Code Monkey

    Trstrank: 8.3?

    Any company still making their software components conform to 8.3 is not to be trsted.

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