Script to find the twitterer who are responsible for the most tweets in your timeline

TimelineSpammers.py

from collections import Counter
from twython import Twython
import operator
app_key = 'XXX'
app_secret = 'XXX'

## init OAuth
t = Twython(app_key=app_key,
            app_secret=app_secret)

auth_props = t.get_authentication_tokens()
oauth_token = auth_props['oauth_token']
oauth_token_secret = auth_props['oauth_token_secret']
print 'Go to Twitter via: %s' % auth_props['auth_url']
raw_input("Press Enter when you authorized the app")
t = Twython(app_key=app_key,
            app_secret=app_secret,
            oauth_token=oauth_token,
            oauth_token_secret=oauth_token_secret)
authorized_tokens = t.get_authorized_tokens()
t = Twython(app_key=app_key,
            app_secret=app_secret,
            oauth_token=authorized_tokens['oauth_token'],
            oauth_token_secret=authorized_tokens['oauth_token_secret'])

## getting the timeline
timeline = t.getHomeTimeline(count=200, exclude_replies=True)
max_id = 0
new_max_id = 1 
while max_id != new_max_id:
    max_id = timeline[-1][u'id']
    more_tweets = t.getHomeTimeline(count=200, max_id=max_id, exclude_replies=True)
    timeline = timeline + more_tweets
    new_max_id = timeline[-1][u'id']
    
## printing the main offenders
spammers = Counter([i[u'user'][u'screen_name'] for i in timeline])
sorted_spammers = sorted(spammers.iteritems(), key=operator.itemgetter(1), reverse=True)
for i in sorted_spammers:
    print str(i[1]) + '\t' + 'www.twitter.com/' + i[0]