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If you have time, try out some of these extra exercises.

=== 1. Customize how tweets are printed by <code>search</code> ===

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Customize how tweets are displayed. Look at the <code>Status</code> and <code>User</code> classes in ~~the [~~http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/source/browse/twitter.py~~| Twitter code]~~ for inspiration; options include ~~the URL for the tweet, how many followers the sender has, the location of the sender, and if it was a retweet.~~

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The tweets printed by <code>search</code> could look much nicer and have more useful metadata!

<li>[Long] A lot of the Twitter API requires that you be authenticated. Examples of actions that require authentication include: posting new tweets, getting a user's followers, getting private tweets from your friends, and following new people.

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Customize how tweets are displayed. Look at the <code>Status</code> and <code>User</code> classes in http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/source/browse/twitter.py for inspiration; options include displaying:

Set up oAuth so you can make authenticated requests.

* the sender of the tweet

* the URL for the tweet

* how many followers the sender has

* the location of the sender

* if it was a retweet

and more!

http://dev.twitter.com/pages/auth describe how Twitter uses oAuth.

http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/ has examples of using oAuth authentication to make authenticated Twitter API requests.

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