Historical Data Now Available

You can now get historical data on tweets. Here's what it looks like:

Alternatively, you can try out these queries:
- seth godin
- iphone

- time warner

How to track your own queries:

1. Click on "Save this search" next to the search box (highlighted in screenshot above).

2. Login with a Google Account (We don't see your password. Ever.)

3. We'll start tracking the query over time.

A few notes:
- It may take a few days for your query to gather stats.

- This is still an pre-alpha feature. Please let us know if you see any problems by leaving feedback here.

- We only support English queries at the moment.

How many people say "huuuuuuuuuuungry" on Twitter?

Here's a fun example that shows the uniqueness of the Twitter language model. Try typing in the word "hungry", with an arbitrary number of u's. Seriously, try it:

huuuungry - 15 results in the last day
huuuuuuuuuuungry - 8 results in the last 10 days (screenshot below)
huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuungry - 1 result in the last 4 days



















The publicly available lexicons (like the Subjectivity Lexicon from MPQA) don't work well with Twitter because the language model is so unique.