add my contribution

Signed-off-by: Tiago Maluta <tiago.maluta@gmail.com>
Merge pull request #269 from maluta/master

Add my contribution to this social coding experiment.
Added my function
Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master'

Merging my new function with the latest upstream version.
Merge pull request #270 from smithbr/master

Adding my function!
Add try/except checks for non-existent usernames and whitespace cleanup
Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master'