Given the millions, tens of millions, or hundreds of millions of users on each site, you are only limited by your own friendliness and ingenuity. Instead of focusing all your time and effort into publishing your art or product, below are tools which can give you the ability to help pioneer the new field of Social Media Optimization.

Facebook

PyFacebook – PyFacebook is a wrapper for the Facebook API. Github

minifb – Minimal Facebook API for Python using simplejson. JSON is also used by twitter which can be verified by visiting the twitter wiki.

Myspace

myspace-python – Client library for the MySpace Apps REST APIs.

myspaceid-python-sdk – MySpaceID Python SDK for local server or using myspace services for application development.

Twitter

PTT -  Python Twitter Tools includes a Twitter API, command-line tool, and IRC bot. If you prefer IRC to twitter’s email/status hybrid then this is probably one of the best chatbot methods yet developed.

python-twitter – A python wrapper around the Twitter API

It appears as though that the modules are accessable from within python using proper import’ing, however, due to the concern with overloading twitter’s servers the fetches are restricted to a maximum of 100 users at a time. For example, the code below (from the site) will get no more than 100 user status at a time. In other words, this is not useful to use for creating follower/following ratios.

  >>> statuses = api.GetPublicTimeline()
  >>> print [s.user.name for s in statuses]

That is all for now. If you’re interested, which you probably are, check my completely unrelated children’s book, The Artist and Aesop, on Amazon. I will come back and write more on each tool when I have some free time.