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Encode Twitter timestamp format into secs.
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twitter_timestamp_to_sec.py
import time
twitter_timestamp_str = "Tue Apr 16 04:00:29 +0000 2013"
format_str = "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S +0000 %Y"
encoded_timestamp = time.strptime(twitter_timestamp_str, format_str)
print time.mktime(encoded_timestamp)
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