Example Twitter alert checker using Twilio

app.py

from twilio.rest import TwilioRestClient

import simplejson as json

from time import sleep


class SocialAlarm(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self.counter = 1

    def check_json(self):
        file_handler = open("output.json", 'r')
        data = json.load(file_handler)
        file_handler.close()
        
        for item in data:
            if item['counter'] >= 5:
                client = TwilioRestClient()
                
                client.messages.create(from_="(929) xxx-xxxx",
                                       to=item['phone_number'],
                                       body="YO. GET OFF TWITTER.")
        
        return str("Sending text message...")
    
    def main(self):
        print("Checking the JSON file for counters for the {} "
              "time...".format(self.counter))
        self.check_json()
        print("Sleeping for 10 seconds...")
        sleep(10)
        self.counter += 1
        return self.main()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    social_alarm = SocialAlarm()
    social_alarm.main()

output.json

[{"phone_number": "+1718xxxxxxx", "counter": 5}, {"phone_number": "+1415xxxxxxx", "counter": 1}]