#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# A tail(1) like interface to twitter for console junkies.

import twitter
import re
import time

def colourize_tweet(tweet):
    # Make #hash tags and @usernames pretty colours
    tweet = re.sub(r'(\A|\s)@(\w+)', r'\1\033[91m@\2\033[0m', tweet)
    tweet = re.sub(r'(\A|\s)#(\w+)', r'\1\033[33m#\2\033[0m', tweet)
    return tweet

api = twitter.Api(username='', password='')
last_tweets = []
tweets = api.GetFriendsTimeline()

while True:
    for tweet in reversed(tweets):
        if last_tweets.count(tweet) == 0:
            message = colourize_tweet(tweet.text)
            print "\033[92m%s:\033[0m %s" % (tweet.user.screen_name, message)

    last_tweets = tweets
    tweets = api.GetFriendsTimeline()
    time.sleep(300)