diff --git a/read_twitter_corpus.py b/read_twitter_corpus.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import csv
+import sys
+
+
+def main():
+    if len(sys.argv) < 2:
+        sys.stderr.write("Usage: {} [twitter csv]".format(sys.argv[0]))
+        return -1
+    with open(sys.argv[1], 'rb') as csv_file:
+        csv_reader = csv.reader(csv_file)
+        for row in csv_reader:
+            tweet = row[5]
+            sys.stdout.write(tweet)
+            if tweet[-1] != '\n':
+                sys.stdout.write('\n')
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    sys.exit(main())