A little bit of New Year’s hustle and a few bug fixes later, pwnserver is ready for pre-alpha release.  What does pre-alpha mean?  It means it may take technical proficiency and perseverance to get pwnserver up and running.  It’s worth noting, however, that once it’s up and running it’s very stable.  I run it once an hour, from cron, and it reliably pwns both new and old tweets from my Twitter accounts.  It also powers my coworking twitter chatter chart.

Pwnserver isn’t a brute force, bulk download tool.  It you want to hammer Twitter and suck down every tweet as fast as you can, you are better off rolling your own tool.  Pwnserver is designed to digest bite-sized chunks of data over a span of time, to avoid drawing attention to itself.  It’s also designed to reliably keep on top of new data while simultaneously working backward in time to earlier data.

Get it here…