Iterating tweets and saving them in a shapefile with tweepy and shapefile - if-statement

Question

I am searching for tweets and want to save them in a shapefile. Iterating through tweets is going well and when I use print statements I can get exactly what I want. I am attempting to put these tweets in a point shapefile. For some reason it does not accept the iterating of the if statement. So how do I iterate through my tweets and save them one by one in my point shapefile with only the tweet.text and tweet.id attached?
I got inspired by looking at the following link: https://code.google.com/p/pyshp/
import tweepy
import shapefile
consumer_key = "..."
consumer_secret = "..."
access_token = "..."
access_token_secret = "..."
auth = tweepy.auth.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
tweetsaspoints = shapefile.Writer(shapefile.POINT)
page = 1
while True:
statuses = api.search(q="*",count=1000, geocode="52.015106,5.394287,150km")
if statuses:
for status in statuses:
print status.geo
tweetsaspoints._shapes.extend([status.geo['coordinates']])
tweetsaspoints.records.extend([("TEXT","Test")])
else:
# All done
break
page += 1 # next page
tweetsaspoints.save('shapefiles/test/point')
I do not understand the page part. I seem to iterate through the same tweets over and over again. Also, I am not succeeding in writing my coordinates and data to a point shapefile.

Answer 1

As per documentation, try to use:
for status in tweepy.Cursor(api.user_timeline).items():
# process status here
process_status(status)
Alternative:
page = 1
while True:
statuses = api.user_timeline(page=page)
if statuses:
for status in statuses:
# process status here
process_status(status)
else:
# All done
break
page += 1 # next page
reference: http://docs.tweepy.org/en/latest/cursor_tutorial.html