4 The Minimalist Twitter API for Python is a Python API for Twitter,
5 everyone's favorite Web 2.0 Facebook-style status updater for people
8 Also included is a twitter command-line tool for getting your friends'
9 tweets and setting your own tweet from the safety and security of your
10 favorite shell and an IRC bot that can announce Twitter updates to an
13 For more information, after installing the `twitter` package:
15 * import the `twitter` package and run help() on it
16 * run `twitter -h` for command-line tool help
17 * run `twitterbot -h` for IRC bot help
18 * visit http://mike.verdone.ca/twitter for more info
25 The command-line tool currently supports the following things:
27 * view your friends' recent tweets
28 * view your recent replies
29 * view the public timeline
30 * follow and unfollow (leave) friends
31 * view tweets from lists
32 * various output formats for tweet information
33 * read your username and password from a config file
35 The bottom line: type `twitter`, receive tweets.
42 The IRC bot is associated with a twitter account (either your own account or an
43 account you create for the bot). The bot announces all tweets from friends
44 it is following. It can be made to follow or leave friends through IRC /msg
52 `twitter-log` is a simple command-line tool that dumps all public
53 tweets from a given user in a simple text format. It is useful to get
54 a complete offsite backup of all your tweets. Run `twitter-log` and
55 read the instructions.
58 Python Twitter Tools are released under an MIT License.