import twitter
import sys
import urllib2
from datetime import datetime
 
class UnknownUser(Exception):
    pass
 
class UnknownStatus(Exception):
    pass
 
class TwitterExpire(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self.__t = twitter.Api()
 
    def verify(self, username):
        try:
            user = self.__t.GetUser(user=username)
        except urllib2.HTTPError:
            raise UnknownUser
        else:
            status = user.GetStatus()
            if status:
                timestamp = status.GetCreatedAtInSeconds()
                d = datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp)
                td = datetime.now() - d
                return td
            else:
                raise UnknownStatus
 
def main(username):
    te = TwitterExpire()
    try:
        result = te.verify(username)
    except UnknownUser:
        print u"User '%s' doesn't exist" % username
    except UnknownStatus:
        print u"Couldn't find any status for '%s'" % username
    else:
        print result
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
    if len(sys.argv) >= 2:
        main(username=sys.argv[1])

<div class="twitter_search" title="#obama"></div>

<div class="twitter_search" title="#python"></div>
<div class="twitter_search" title="#jquery"></div>

// Number of tweets to show for each column
var MAX_RESULTS = 20;
function twitter_search() {
	var url = 'http://search.twitter.com/search.json?callback=?';
	// Iterating over the different search columns
	$('.twitter_search').each(function() {
		var container = $(this);
		// Search terms are specified in the 'title' attribute
		var search = container.attr('title');
		if (search) {
			// Showing column title
			if (container.siblings('h1').length == 0) {
				container.parent().prepend('<h1>' + search + '</h1>');
			}
			var since_id = 0;
			if (container.children().length) {
				// Retrieve results since this id
				since_id = container.children(':first').attr('id').replace('#', '');
			}
			// Request the results
			$.getJSON(url, {'q': search, 'since_id': since_id}, function(data) {
				// Processing those results, if any
				if (data.results.length) {
					for (i in data.results.reverse()) {
						var r = data.results[i];
						// Creating the result container
						var div = $('<div id="#' + r.id + '"></div>');
						// Don't show this element now
						div.hide();
						// Adding some styles through .twitter_result
						div.addClass('twitter_result');
						// Adding user's image
						div.append('<img src="' + r.profile_image_url + '" alt="' + r.from_user + '" />');
						// Adding username
						div.append('<a href="http://twitter.com/' + r.from_user + '">' + r.from_user + '</a>');
						// Adding tweet
						div.append('<span>' + r.text + '</span>');
						// Adding corners
						div.corner();
						// Adding this result to the main container
						container.prepend(div);
						// Effect
						div.slideDown('slow');
					}
				}
				// Removing old tweets
				if (container.children().length > MAX_RESULTS) {
					// Negative index
					to_remove = MAX_RESULTS - container.children().length
					container.children().slice(to_remove).each(function() {
						$(this).slideUp();
					});
				}
			});
		}
	});
};
 
$(document).ready(function() {
	// Initial search 
	twitter_search();
	// Refresh the results every 5 seconds
	setInterval("twitter_search();", 5000);
});

import sys, urllib, simplejson
 
api = 'http://api.crunchbase.com/v/1/search.js?%s'
 
def main():
    if len(sys.argv) >= 2:
        q = ' '.join(sys.argv[1:])
        source = urllib.urlopen(api % urllib.urlencode({'query': q}))
        results = simplejson.loads(source.read())
        if results['results']:
            for r in results['results']:
                name = r.get('name')
                if not name:
                    name = ' '.join([w.capitalize() \
                        for w in r['permalink'].split('-')])
                print '%s (%s): %s' % (
                    name.strip(),
                    r['namespace'].capitalize(),
                    r['crunchbase_url'],
                )       
        else:
            print 'No results for "%s"' % q
    else:
        print 'Usage: python %s <keyword(s)>' % sys.argv[0]
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

import feedparser, urllib
 
def main():
    feed_source = 'http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?%s'
    q = raw_input('Search term: ')
    if q:
        f = feedparser.parse(feed_source % urllib.urlencode({'q': q}))
        for entry in f.entries:
            print '%s: "%s"' % (entry.author, entry.title) 
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()