twython

Actively maintained, pure Python wrapper for the Twitter API. Supports both normal and streaming Twitter APIs.

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Actively maintained, pure Python wrapper for the Twitter API. Supports both normal and streaming Twitter APIs.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1	0
2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

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stelian·May 9, 2014Submission

I made a web app that makes tweetstorming easier(details in comments)

I got the idea for this web app after I saw one of Marc Andreessen's famous tweetstorms http://cl.ly/image/2k193q333y1M. At first, I thought he was using some sort of app, but to my surprise, he wasn't. So I decided to make one. Where you can write your tweets in the form of an article, each paragraph being a tweet. And each tweet being a reply to the previous one. The technical bits(this is Hacker News, after all): Currently, it's runs on Google App Engine. After being a full time designer for the past 9 years, Python is the only server side language I can digest. Also, Twython is a great Twitter API wrapper(https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/twython). Static files are all stored on Amazon S3 and served through CloudFront. The biggest challenges here were CORS and enabling gzip on S3. Front-end wise this was hell. My brother convinced me tha

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t contentEditable is this magical thing that makes rich text editing in the browser a breeze to implement. In theory, that’s true. In practice, I only recommend it to people that are mentally very stable. I also use LocalStorage to keep the written text when the browser tab is closed. This means that, later, you can continue where you left off. Even with all the front-end challenges, it was a fun project to build. TweetEssay: http://www.tweetessay.co/

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