twitter-post-status.py

#!/usr/bin/python

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# twitter-post-status
#  - posts a status message to your timeline
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from twitter import *

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# what should our new status be?
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new_status = "testing testing"

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# load our API credentials 
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config = {}
execfile("config.py", config)

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# create twitter API object
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twitter = Twitter(
	auth = OAuth(config["access_key"], config["access_secret"], config["consumer_key"], config["consumer_secret"]))

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# post a new status
# twitter API docs: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/post/statuses/update
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results = twitter.statuses.update(status = new_status)
print "updated status: %s" % new_status