using web services leahculver @jazzychad just bought one __ _valeriei rt @wsjbig employers like googleat&amp; are ericbollens rt @lukewsneak peekmy long take on the good & halherzog learning objects is we had cake with the loscweeker @devicelabdc love itnow where so get that "etc enter twitter accountthe last bit of the output is where we see the for loop reading the five most recent "friendsof the @drchuck twitter account and printing the most recent status for each friend there is great deal more data available in the returned json if you look in the output of the programyou can also see that the "find the friendsof particular account has different rate limitation than the number of timeline queries we are allowed to run per time period these secure api keys allow twitter to have solid confidence that they know who is using their api and data and at what level the rate-limiting approach allows us to do simplepersonal data retrievals but does not allow us to build product that pulls data from their api millions of times per day