added the tweet task for alerting via twitter

lib/tasks/tweet.py

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+"""
+The tweet/twitter task.
+"""
+
+import twitter
+from lib.tasks.task import Task
+
+
+class TweetTask(Task):
+    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
+        if not "type" in kwargs:
+            raise Exception("'type' not in typeDict " + str(kwargs))
+        if not "args" in kwargs:
+            raise Exception("typeDict " + str(kwargs) + " has no arguments!")
+        self.set_task_type(kwargs["type"])
+        self.recipient = kwargs["args"]["rcpt"]
+
+    def execute(self, msg):
+        api = twitter.Api(consumer_key='consumer_key',
+                          consumer_secret='consumer_secret',
+                          access_token_key='access_token',
+                          access_token_secret='access_token_secret')
+        status = api.PostUpdate(msg)
+        pass
+
+
+def create(taskDict):
+    return TweetTask(**taskDict)