Use the same args conventions in all scripts
Replace pickle with cPickle

cPickle is the optimized version of pickle written in C. Using pickle
results in a memory error for me with 4G RAM, while cPickle works.
Allow setting the classifier cutoff value
Ignore .pickle files
Retrieve tasks on the worker side of the queue

Is there some way to make threading code non-ugly in python?
Parse dates of posted tasks
Don't attempt to fetch stream if bounds in past
Pass the db name to task.run()
REBASEME: Correct date parsing string in service
REBASEME: Only place tweet text in sample
Return a list of tweets from TweetStore.get()