I'm unfamiliar with the new oauth system. I wanted to crawl the status updates of my friends, and their friends' (if permissions allow) with my specified account credentials using the python-twitter api. 
With the new oauth authentication, does it means that I have to first register an application with twitter before I can use api?
For use api you must register your aplication or use GET methods to post into twi through  web interface.
noob question regarding twitter oauth