Python Twitter Tools
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The Minimalist Twitter API for Python is a Python API for Twitter,
everyone's favorite Web 2.0 Facebook-style status updater for people
on the go.
t.user.list.members(user="tamtar", list="things-that-are-rad")
# An *optional* `_timeout` parameter can also be used for API
-# calls which take much more time than normal or twitter stops
-# responding for some reasone
+# calls which take much more time than normal or Twitter stops
+# responding for some reason
t.users.lookup(screen_name=','.join(A_LIST_OF_100_SCREEN_NAMES), _timeout=1)
# Overriding Method: GET/POST
[application](https://dev.twitter.com/apps) needs the "Read, Write & Direct
Messages" permission.
-The following example demonstrates how to retreive all new direct messages
+The following example demonstrates how to retrieve all new direct messages
from the user stream:
```python
Twitter Response Objects
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-Response from a twitter request. Behaves like a list or a string
+Response from a Twitter request. Behaves like a list or a string
(depending on requested format) but it has a few other interesting
attributes.
This will get you a CONSUMER_KEY and CONSUMER_SECRET.
When users run your application they have to authenticate your app
-with their Twitter account. A few HTTP calls to twitter are required
+with their Twitter account. A few HTTP calls to Twitter are required
to do this. Please see the twitter.oauth_dance module to see how this
is done. If you are making a command-line app, you can use the
oauth_dance() function directly.