A short ~2.5 minute screencast demonstrating how to create a connection to Twitter's API and run some queries. By the end of this video, you'll be able to tap into Twitter's firehose with the Streaming API and query for words, screen names, hashtags, stock tickers, and more!
It's best if you've first followed along with other screencasts and can successfully access the collection of IPython Notebooks that are part of the Mining the Social Web VM before following along with this video.