Twittering with Python

Abstract

The use of the Web 2.0 service Twitter is growing rapidly. More and more people, projects, companies, organizations, or others are using Twitter to send out a lot of 140 character messages to the world (i.e., their followers).

This talk gives an overview of how to use Python for automating Twitter actions, such as sending tweets, viewing tweets of friends, and managing the list of Twitter friends. The various existing Python libraries for accessing the Twitter API are presented and compared, listing advantages and drawbacks of each. This talk will teach you how to use the APIs.

The talk will also demonstrate a variety of use cases, including the use of Twitter in software engineering and software development, in distributed computing, on smart phones, or for system monitoring and present examples and hints for integrating Twitter into existing Python applications.