import urllib
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

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 'Retrieved', len(document), 'characters.' 
    tree = ET.fromstring(document)
    count = 0
    for user in tree.findall('user'):
        count = count + 1
        if count > 4 : break
        print user.find('screen_name').text
        status =  user.find('status')
        if status is not None : 
            txt = status.find('text').text
            print '  ',txt[:50]