Twitter competition ~ saving tweets (PHP & MySQL)

Question

I am creating an application to help our team manage a twitter competition. So far I\'ve managed to interact with the API fine, and return a set of tweets that I need.

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Answer 1

100 queries in 5 minutes is nothing. Especially since a tweet has essentially only 3 pieces of data associated with it: user ID, timestamp, tweet, tweet ID - say, about 170 characters worth of data per tweet. Unless you're running your database on a 4.77MHz 8088, your database won't even blink at that kind of "load"