Traceback (most recent call last): File “compileTweets.py”, line 32, in thedatawriter.writerow(tweet.text) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2019' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

The next issue was that each letter was being put in as a separate entry, as so

A,s, ,t,o, ,t,h,e, ,U,.,N,.,”,”, ,t,h,i,n,g,s, ,w,i,l,l, ,b,e, ,d,i,f,f,e,r,e,n,t, ,a,f,t,e,r, ,J,a,n,., ,2,0,t,h,.

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