how to send a tweet through Firefox using Python + Selenium

tweet-selenium.py

"""
Tweeting by controlling Firefox via Python + selenium
http://selenium-python.readthedocs.org/

Obviously you should be using tweepy + the Twitter API if you actually
want to programmatically work with Twitter data and be efficient about it
But it's fun watching Python control the browser interactively...
"""

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("https://www.twitter.com")

## Login
el = driver.find_element_by_css_selector('button.Button.js-login')
el.click()
# fill out the username
el = driver.find_element_by_css_selector("input.email-input")
el.send_keys("dancow")
# fill out your password...again, another reason to use the API (with OAuth) and NOT
# your browser. At the very least, don't hardcode your password into the script
_my_password = open("mypassword.txt").read().strip()
driver.find_element_by_css_selector(".LoginForm-password > input").send_keys(_my_password)
# Submit the form
el.submit()

## Now write the tweet
# Select the tweet box
el = driver.find_element_by_id('tweet-box-home-timeline')
# ...you might have to do this twice if it doesn't respond right away
el.send_keys("""whoa I just tweeted from Firefox, using Python and Selenium
https://gist.github.com/dannguyen/8a6fa49253c1d6a0eb92""")

# let's take a screenshot just to prove it
driver.save_screenshot("i-am-on-twitter.png")
# crop and show only top 400 pixels because selenium will screenshot the ENTIRE page
from PIL import Image
img = Image.open("i-am-on-twitter.png")
# absolute filepath is needed
cropped_filename = "/tmp/cropped-i-am-on-twitter.png"
img.crop((0, 0, img.size[0], 400)).save(cropped_filename)
# Upload the image
driver.find_element_by_css_selector('input.file-input').send_keys(cropped_filename)

# wait till image is uploaded until going forward
# http://selenium-python.readthedocs.org/waits.html
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
import sys
try:
    print("...uploading", cropped_filename)
    WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(
        EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, 'button.js-show-preview'))
    )
except:
    print("Unexpected error:", sys.exc_info()[0])
else:
    # it was a successful upload...
    # Now send the tweet by clicking the button
    driver.find_element_by_css_selector('button.tweet-action').click()