title: C# .net app to pull twitter posts?
body: <p>Can a .net app be made to pull twitter posts?</p>
  
  <p>I am wondering if its possible to capture any of the posts made on twitter by any user? I am trying to obtain an unrestricted flow of tweets to use as sample data for statistical analysis.</p>
  
  <p>I want to try to gauge the sentiment of topics such as "thanksgiving" or "global warming"</p>
  
  <p>I was thinking on a high level I would be able to pull all tweets containing a "#thanksgiving" tag and save them to a SQL DB for analysis.</p>
  
  <p>Is this a valid approach of that, or is there a better way? Is there a tool to do this already that will save me the development time?</p>