Cool search tool for Tweets

I have come across something called the Web Ecology Project while reading an article and decided to check it out. Turns out, it's a project involving the creation of '140kit', a research tool for Twitter posts. I had read that Google was looking into developing something like this (the ability to search all past and present Twitter posts) but this seems to have done it before them, allowing users to search any term, then retrieve raw data sets which can then be graphed and analyzed. This will be of great use for finding information about my particular case studies.

In essence, 140kit allows you to: (taken from the www.140kit.com website):

Research
140kit is more than your personal stash of Tweets; when you signup, you have access to two powerful default scrape types: You can either search terms (with/without our similar term branching algorithm enabled) from this moment using the powerful Streaming API or soon access one of our Whitelisted machines for REST access to collect as many tweets as possible from any number of accounts.

Explore
Once your data collection is complete, you have access to an expanding list of analytical offerings to measure your data sets rapidly and in new ways. From there, you can quickly export data, view general charts, and soon have access to an experimental re-tweet network graph visualization. Use this data for academic research, one-off fact-checking blog posts, or anything else you can think of, really.

Collaborate
What if you wanted to combine multiple data sets and look at their sum value? Doing that is simple with a "Curation" scrape, where you pick and choose existing data sets in the system, and mash them together for epic win. Don't see an analytical job you need? Develop it and throw it at our Git Account, and, pending approval, it'll just be added in, with the proper attributions to your hard work.