Creating a Twitter application

In this section, we are going to create our first Twitter application so we can consume the Twitter REST API. You will need to create an account if you don't already have one. If you are not using Twitter, I would strongly recommend it; it is a great way of getting up-to-date with all the news and what is going on in the development world, and it is a great way of making new friends in the Python community.

After you create an account, head over to https://apps.twitter.com/, sign in with your login credentials, and you will land on a page where you can see a list of apps that you have already created (the first time, you will probably have an empty list of apps), and on the same page you will have the possibility ...

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