README

TwitterTail: Python tool to follow in near real-time a Twitter query

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Copyright 2010 Etienne Membrives <etienne@membrives.fr>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; version 3 of the License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston MA 02110-1301, USA.

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Dependencies:
 - python-twitter with Search API support (newer than January 9, 2010)

Usage:
./twittertail.py <query> [--delay <seconds>]

To quit, just press CTRL-C at command prompt

Example:
$> ./twittertail.py twitter
aguy (Fri, 02 Apr 2010 23:57:17 +0000)
> TwitterTail is a very nice app
anotherguy (Fri, 02 Apr 2010 23:57:18 +0000)
> @aguy you're right !
[... and so on ...]