diff --git a/backends/twitter/userdb.cpp b/backends/twitter/userdb.cpp
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index 12719019fb3a60467e4ec7ac867c7b7af879f172..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/backends/twitter/userdb.cpp
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@@ -1,80 +0,0 @@
-#include "userdb.h"
-
-#if 0
-
-DEFINE_LOGGER(logger, "Twitter Backend Database");
-
-UserDB::UserDB(std::string database): errMsg(0), rc(0), dbOpen(false) 
-{
-	rc = sqlite3_open(database.c_str(), &db);
-	if( rc ) {
-		LOG4CXX_ERROR(logger, "Failed to open database" << database);
-		sqlite3_close(db);
-		exit(0);
-	}
-	
-	LOG4CXX_INFO(logger, "Checking if table users is present")	
-	if(exe(std::string("select * from users limit 1;")) != SQLITE_OK) {
-		exe("create table users (user text primarykey, key text, secret text);");
-		LOG4CXX_INFO(logger, "Created table users in the database");
-	}
-	dbOpen = true;
-}
-
-int UserDB::exe(std::string s_exe) 
-{
-	data.clear();
-
-	//LOG4CXX_INFO(logger, "Executing: " << s_exe)	
-	rc = sqlite3_get_table(db, s_exe.c_str(), &result, &nRow, &nCol, &errMsg);
-	if( rc == SQLITE_OK ) {	
-		int col = nCol; //Skip past the headers
-		for(int i = 0; i < nRow; ++i) {
-			std::vector<std::string> row;
-			for(int j = 0 ; j < nCol ; j++) row.push_back(result[col++]);
-			data.push_back(row);
-		}
-	} 
-	sqlite3_free_table(result);
-	return rc;
-}
-
-void UserDB::insert(UserData info)
-{
-	std::string q = "insert into users (user,key,secret) values ('" + info.user + "','" + info.accessTokenKey + "','" + info.accessTokenSecret + "');";
-	if(exe(q) !=  SQLITE_OK) {
-		LOG4CXX_ERROR(logger, "Failed to insert into database!");
-		exit(0);	
-	}
-}
-
-void UserDB::fetch(std::string user, std::vector<std::string> &row)
-{
-	std::string q =  "select key,secret from users where user='" + user + "'";
-	if(exe(q) !=  SQLITE_OK) {
-		LOG4CXX_ERROR(logger, "Failed to fetch data from database!");
-		exit(0);
-	}
-	row = data[0];
-}
-
-std::set<std::string> UserDB::getRegisteredUsers()
-{
-	std::string q = "select user from users";
-	if(exe(q) != SQLITE_OK) {
-		LOG4CXX_ERROR(logger, "Failed to registered users from database!");
-		exit(0);
-	}
-	
-	std::set<std::string> users;
-	for(int i=0 ; i<data.size() ; i++)
-		users.insert(data[i][0]);
-	return users;
-}
-
-UserDB::~UserDB()
-{
-	sqlite3_close(db);
-}
-
-#endif