Code project: create a Python Twitter bot

“This may not be exactly how they tell the story at Twitter HQ,
but that’s probably because it would create a less than glamorous
image (oh, and it’s also wildly inaccurate). After all, Twitter is
pretty much constantly in the news. If you want to catch up with
where in the world Stephen Fry is now, what everybody in North
America had for lunch or precisely how smugly great Jonathan Ross
thinks he is today, there’s really only one place to turn.

“Amazingly, Twitter can be put to useful things as well. As it
happens, Twitter’s application programming interface (API) is
particularly convoluted – it seems to have evolved by using many
different ways of doing various things. That needn’t worry us,
though, because there are plenty of API wrappers for Python. The
one that’s most suited for us is the standard Python-Twitter, which
is available through most repositories and also at
http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter.”

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