with code contributions and references taken from Google Plus QuickStart Python

• Python2.7
• Flask

This seems like a good resource for step by step documentation with screenshots regarding the twitter api.

how to get api key and secret

Please suggest if any better resources are out there.

1. Get the latest version of the quick-start. One way is to use git to clone the application repository.

git clone https://github.com/infinite-Joy/twitter-app.git

Or, download the application as a zip file, and extract the library and quick-start code:

wget https://github.com/infinite-Joy/twitter-app/archive/master.zip -o twitter-app unzip twitter-app.zip

2. Change directory into the quick-start app

cd twitter-app

3. Install the requirements of this quick start

pip install -r requirements.txt

1. Run the Python quick-start app:

python main_flask_server.py

2. Browse to your quick-start app, which by default is at http://localhost:4864