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import json


    tweets_data_path = 'twitter_streaming.txt'

    tweets_data = []
    tweets_file = open(tweets_data_path, "r")

    json_load = json.load(tweets_file)
    texts = json_load['text']
    coded = texts.encode('utf-8')
    s = str(coded)
    tweets_data.append(s[1:-2))
print tweets_data