Adding fix for writing UTF-8 encoded strings when keeping tweet history

social.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import helpers
 import requests
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 from pathlib import Path
+import codecs
 
 
 def getTweets():
@@ -97,7 +98,7 @@ def tootTheTweet(tweet):
 
     else:
 
-        tweet_check = open(tweet_check_file_path, 'w')
+        tweet_check = codecs.open(tweet_check_file_path, mode='w', encoding='utf-8')
         tweet_check.write(tweet['text'])
         tweet_check.close()