Grab your twitter timeline and save in a json file.

#!/usr/bin/python2.4

import httplib, urllib, sys

twitter_handle = 'joemccann'

params = urllib.urlencode([
    ('screen_name', twitter_handle)
  ])

# Always use the following value for the Content-type header.
headers = { "Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" }
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection('api.twitter.com')
conn.request('GET', '/1/statuses/user_timeline.json', params, headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
conn.close

filename = "%s.json" % twitter_handle
print "\nWriting to file: %s\n" % filename
file = open(filename, 'w')
file.write(data)
file.close()