You can just as easily program something like this with Django. One criticism that you may encounter with Django is that it's not as extensible or have as robus

You can just as easily program something like this with Django. One criticism that you may encounter with Django is that it's not as extensible or have as robust of a community. In terms of plugins, you'll need distinguish between django specific plugins and just general python plugins. For example, for Twitter - you'll encounter that there isn't necessarily a one-size-fits-all Twitter plugin that's specific to Django. Instead, you might need an authentication plugin which will store relevant Twitter information (id, token) and then use a Python Twitter plugin to do the kind of neat stuff the author has accomplished. I prefer Django because it's more explicit and there is less magic. This is also good for beginners because it's easier for you to track down where things might be going wrong for you. Django might not have the best community-support (no railscast equivalent).