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Apply core programming constructs to a dynamic data source (Beginner/Intermediate)

This challenge will guide you through tasks that involve searching for and reading documentation online, executing an API call to a dynamic data source, processing the results in a language of your choice, and printing them out to a terminal.

A word of encouragement: This is a big challenge and you can expect it to take some time. But you are unlocking the secrets to the information universe! It's ok if it's hard. We all do it wrong 100 times before doing it right, so keep at it and share your trials, tribulations & successes with others in the comments.

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Suit Up [Jan. 26, 2012, 8:48 p.m.]

Back in Task 2, you were channeling your vision of a beautiful query that would return interesting information. Part of this task was to identify the specific Twitter API call to issue a search. In this task we're going to construct your specific API call, and make sure you have the right language-specific tools to talk with the Twitter API servers.

The search API call has a number of optional parameters, but only one required parameter. What is that parameter?

Run a test search with that single parameter in your browser.

Feel free to add in some of the optional parameters of this API call to your query. It's up to you!