To crawl Twitter data for research use.
TwitterCrawler can crawl user profile, user followee/follower links, and user tweets given a list of twitter users' ID.
TwitterCrawler uses Twitter4j (http://twitter4j.org/en/index.html).
The main goal of TwitterCrawler is to speed up the crawling speed by using a list of Twitter application accounts. Once an account reaches rate limit, TwitterCrawler chooses another account to continue crawling the required data.
To use TwitterCrawler, you need to have at least one Twitter application account. It is better to have a list of accounts to fasten the crawling speed.
In order to get accounts from Twitter, see http://twitter.com/oauth_clients/new.
How to set the accounts, see http://twitter4j.org/en/code-examples.html (No.7 OAuth support).