So far this project, which involves combining twitter and MySQL to datamine tweets, has gone fairly well. I've been able to move my project from straight REST calls to a library, TwitterVB. BTW, if you are doing any sort of VB.NET/Twitter development, this is the library you should be using, hands down. It is very easy to use. Not all of the properties are exposed yet, but it's slowly but surely getting there.
When I have the project up to snuff, I definitely will be posting up my link to this project
