A python program to fetch and print out the last 5 tweets made by a user(taken as input) using the twitter REST api.

tweets.py

import requests
import json

def main():
    handle = raw_input('Twitter handle(without @)-')
    r = requests.get('https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/'+handle+'.json?callback=?&count=5')
    obj = json.loads(r.content)
    for i in range(0,5):
        print "-"*24
        print obj[i]['user']['name'] + " tweeted -"
        print obj[i]['text']
        print "Created on " + obj[i]['user']['created_at']

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()