Being a woman is not a pre-existing condition
The search term is the hashtag used: #whc
It was messages about women's health care, and the line that 'made it go' was "being a woman is not a pre-existing condition." I found out about it via a description of a rally that seems to have started it. The url for the original site is http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/caqBpJhH_QF/National+Women+Law+Center+Rally
When the search started the first message found was November 15, 2009 at 11:57.
It has not been a particularly popular message stream. Only 945 messages used #whc between November 15 and April 3, 2010.
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There is one modest spike at the beginning and another spike in March 2010 that are tweets about the World Horror Convention. It would be easy to lose those; just cut off the series a bit earlier.
The data files are #whc.xml and whc.txt which is set up to read into Excel as tabbed columns.
© G. R. Boynton, 2010
April 3, 2010