import urllib

TWITTER_URL = 'http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/friends/ACCT.xml'

while True:
    print ''
    acct = raw_input('Enter Twitter Account:')
    if ( len(acct) < 1 ) : break
    url = TWITTER_URL.replace('ACCT', acct)
    print 'Retrieving', url
    document = urllib.urlopen (url).read()
    print document[:250]