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== Project ==

Use the Twitter API to write the basic parts of a Twitter client. See what your friends are tweeting, get trending topics, search tweets, and more.
Use the Twitter API to write the basic parts of a Twitter client. See what your friends are tweeting, get trending topics, search tweets, and more.

==Goals==

* Have fun playing with data from Twitter.
* See how easy it is to programmatically gather data from social websites that have APIs.
* Get experience with command line option parsing and passing data to a Python script.
* Get experience reading other people's code.


==Setup==
==Setup==
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You should see the text from 20 tweets containing the word "Python" printed to the screen. If you don't, let a staff member know so you can debug this together.
You should see the text from 20 tweets containing the word "Python" printed to the screen. If you don't, let a staff member know so you can debug this together.

==Goals==

* Have fun playing with data from Twitter.
* See how easy it is to programmatically gather data from social websites that have APIs.
* Get experience with command line option parsing and passing data to a Python script.
* Get experience reading other people's code.


==Steps==
==Steps==