If you're considering adding similar functionality to your Django site, check out Tweepy. It's absolutely wonderful.<p><a href="http://github.com/joshthecoder/tweepy" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/joshthecoder/tweepy</a><p>Python-twitter will work too, but it covers significantly fewer API calls than Tweepy and doesn't have native oauth support (though oauth-python-twitter solves the latter nicely enough).