So you want to grab tweets from twitter? There are several other blog posts to assist, including the SAS blog reference below.

Grab the status of one twitter account (changing USERNAME to the twitter handle) via: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_name=&USERNAME&count;=3200

Then to help folks get jumpstarted, use the XMLMAP that I created below for the SAS Libname Engine.

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<SXLEMAP version="1.2">
<TABLE name="STATUS">
<TABLE-PATH syntax="XPATH">
/statuses/status
</TABLE-PATH>
<COLUMN name="created_at" retain="YES">
<PATH>/statuses/status/created_at</PATH>
<TYPE>character</TYPE>
<DATATYPE>STRING</DATATYPE>
<LENGTH>30</LENGTH>
</COLUMN>
<COLUMN name="text" retain="YES">
<PATH>/statuses/status/text</PATH>
<TYPE>character</TYPE>
<DATATYPE>STRING</DATATYPE>
<LENGTH>140</LENGTH>
</COLUMN>
<COLUMN name="twitter" retain="YES">
<PATH>/statuses/status/user/screen_name</PATH>
<TYPE>character</TYPE>
<DATATYPE>STRING</DATATYPE>
<LENGTH>15</LENGTH>
</COLUMN>
<COLUMN name="image" retain="YES">
<PATH>/statuses/status/user/profile_image_url</PATH>
<TYPE>character</TYPE>
<DATATYPE>STRING</DATATYPE>
<LENGTH>120</LENGTH>
</COLUMN>
</TABLE>
</SXLEMAP>
Reference - Using SAS to Call Twitter:  https://blogs.sas.com/supportnews/index.php?/archives/72-Using-SAS-to-call-Twitter.html