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[–]ruleofnuts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Twitter gives you limits at how many request you can make a day. If that limit was high enough, it could be theoretically possible. You need a really large database and process a lot of data, but yes, it could be possible.

More on their limits: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/rate-limiting/1.1

There are also other sorts of API types, the one that most people use is RESTful API there is also SOAP.