Great! But to retrieve data from Twitter, we need to make an actual call to the API. So far, we’ve only created the object (twitter_api)that represents the Twitter API we’ll interact with.

To make the call, we’ll do the following:

1. Create a handle variable (will be set to a Twitter username)
2. Call the GetUserTimeline() method on the twitter_api object we created in the last exercise and pass in the following three arguments to the method:

• Twitter handle of the celebrity
• The number of desired Tweets (count)
• A retweet flag (include_rts is set to false in order to avoid retrieving retweets)

3. Create a statuses variable set to the code from Step 2 above

Here’s an example:

# This example uses Codecademy's twitter handle
handle = "@Codecademy"

statuses = twitter_api.GetUserTimeline(screen_name=handle, count=200, include_rts=False)