Retrieve a user's last tweets

tweets.py

from urllib2 import urlopen

from django.utils.simplejson import loads

from oauth2 import Token

from social_auth.backends.utils import build_consumer_oauth_request
from social_auth.backends.twitter import TwitterAuth


def get_last_tweets(user):
    try:
        social_auth = user.social_auth.filter(provider='twitter')[0]
    except IndexError:
        return []
    request = build_consumer_oauth_request(
        TwitterAuth,
        Token.from_string(social_auth.extra_data['access_token']),
        'https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/home_timeline.json'
    )
    response = '\n'.join(urlopen(request.to_url()).readlines())
    return loads(response)