find most followed user to send tweet with a given hashtag

hashtagTweeterWithMostSocialProof.py

#****************************************************
#a simple script that searchs all tweets with a given hashtag
#and finds which of the users sending those tweets has the most followers
#
#how is this useful? it probably isn't ...
#
#****************************************************
#required python packages:
#http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools
#http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/simplejson
#http://code.google.com/p/httplib2/
#http://github.com/simplegeo/python-oauth2
#http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/
#
#****************************************************
#you also will need a twitter account and an app registered with twitter
#registering an app with twitter you will grant you the security keys needed to query the twitter api
#

import sys
import time
import twitter
import httplib
import urllib
import json

hashtag = '#NDAA2012'

consumerKey = '<your twitter app consumer key>'
consumerSecret = '<your twitter app consumer secret>'
accessTokenKey = '<your twitter app access token key>'
accessTokenSecret = '<your twitter app access token secret>'

api = twitter.Api(
		consumer_key=consumerKey, 
		consumer_secret=consumerSecret, 
		access_token_key=accessTokenKey, 
		access_token_secret=accessTokenSecret
		)

c = httplib.HTTPConnection('search.twitter.com')
c.request('GET', '/search.json?result_type=recent&rpp=100&' + urllib.urlencode({'q':hashtag}))
result = json.loads(c.getresponse().read())
c.close()

topUserFollowCount = 0
topUser = None 

while True:

	for t in result['results']:
		print 'checking ', t['from_user']
		try:
			u = api.GetUser(t['from_user_id_str'])
			if u.followers_count > topUserFollowCount:
				topUserFollowCount = u.followers_count
				topUser = u	
		except:
			print 'error ', sys.exc_info()[0]

	if 'next_page' in result:
		nextpage = result['next_page']
		print 'nextpage: ', nextpage
		c.request('GET', '/search.json' + nextpage)
		result = json.loads(c.getresponse().read())
		c.close()
	else:
		break

print 'user with most followers-----------------------------'
print topUser